My God, my God, why

Verse 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?

Verse 2

O my God, I cry in the day time, but thou hearest not; And in the night season, and am not silent.

Verse 3

But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel, our fathers trusted in thee: They trusted, and thou didst deliver them.

Verse 4

They cried unto thee, and were delivered: They trusted in thee, and were not confounded.

Verse 5

But I am a worm, and no man: A reproach of men, and despised of the people.

Verse 6

All they that see me laugh me to scorn: They shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,

Verse 7

He trusted on the Lord that he would deliver him: Let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.

Verse 8

But thou art he that took me out of the womb: Thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother's breasts.

Verse 9

Be not far from me for trouble is near: For there is none to help.

Verse 10

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.

Verse 11

For dogs have compassed me: The assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.

Verse 12

I may tell all my bones: They look and stare upon me.

Verse 13

They part my garments among them: And cast lots upon my vesture.

Verse 14

But be not thou far from me, O Lord: O my strength, haste thee to help me.

Verse 15

I will declare thy name unto my brethren: In the midst of the congregation will I praise thee.

Verse 16

Ye that fear the Lord, praise him: All ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him; and fear him, all ye the seed of Israel.

Verse 17

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.

Verse 18

All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the Lord: And all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee.

Verse 19

A seed shall serve him: It shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation.

Verse 20

They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born: That he hath done this.

Verse 21

(Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost: As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.)