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TO THE CHIEF MUSICIAN UPON AIJELETH SHAHAR, A PSALM OF DAVID.

1	My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?

2	O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; 

and in the night season, and am not silent.

3	But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel.

4	Our fathers trusted in thee: 

they trusted, and thou didst deliver them.

5	They cried unto thee, and were delivered: 

they trusted in thee, and were not confounded.

6	But I am a worm, and no man; 

a reproach of men, and despised of the people.

7	All they that see me laugh me to scorn: 

they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,

8	He trusted on the LORD that he would deliver him: 

let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.

9	But thou art he that took me out of the womb: 

thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother’s breasts.

10	I was cast upon thee from the womb: 

thou art my God from my mother’s belly.

11	Be not far from me; 

for trouble is near; 

for there is none to help.

12	Many bulls have compassed me: 

strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.

13	They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.

14	I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: 

my heart is like wax; 

it is melted in the midst of my bowels.

15	My strength is dried up like a potsherd; 

and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; 

and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.

16	For dogs have compassed me: 

the assembly of the wicked have enclosed me: 

they pierced my hands and my feet.

17	I may tell all my bones: 

they look and stare upon me.

18	They part my garments among them, 

and cast lots upon my vesture.

19	But be not thou far from me, O LORD: 

O my strength, haste thee to help me.

20	Deliver my soul from the sword; 

my darling from the power of the dog.

21	Save me from the lion’s mouth: 

for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns.

22	I will declare thy name unto my brethren: 

in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee.

23	Ye that fear the LORD, praise him; 

all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him; 

and fear him, all ye the seed of Israel.

24	For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; 

neither hath he hid his face from him; 

but when he cried unto him, he heard.

25	My praise shall be of thee in the great congregation: 

I will pay my vows before them that fear him.

26	The meek shall eat and be satisfied: 

they shall praise the LORD that seek him: 

your heart shall live for ever.

27	All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the LORD: 

and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee.

28	For the kingdom is the LORD’S: 

and he is the governor among the nations.

29	All they that be fat upon earth shall eat and worship: 

all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him: 

and none can keep alive his own soul.

30	A seed shall serve him; 

it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation.

31	They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, 

that he hath done this.



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