¹My god, my god, why have you let me live? Yet you have delayed my salvation from me, because of the words of my folly.
²My god, I call you in the daytime but you do not answer me; and in the night season you do not stay with me.

³For you are holy, and Israel lives under your glory.
⁴Our fathers trusted in you; they trusted, and you delivered them.
⁵They cried to you and were delivered; they trusted in you and were not confounded.

⁶But I am a worm, and not a man; a disgrace of men, and despised of the people.
⁷All those who saw me have laughed me to scorn; they shoot out with their lips, they shake their heads saying,
⁸He trusted in Yahvah; let Yahvah deliver him; let him save him, if he be delighted in him.

⁹For you are my trust since I came out of the womb, and my hope since I was on my mother's breasts.
¹⁰I was put under your care from the womb; you are my god from my mother's belly.
¹¹Do not be far from me; for trouble is near; for there is no one to help.

¹²Many bulls have surrounded me: strong bulls of Bashan have besieged me.
¹³Their mouths snarl against me, as a ravening and roaring lion.
¹⁴I am poured out like water and all my bones are out of joint; my heart is melted like wax, and my bowels are wasted in the middle of me.
¹⁵My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue clings to my jaws; and you have thrown me into the dust of death.

¹⁶For the vicious have surrounded me; the assembly of the wicked have enclosed me; they have pierced my hands and my feet.
¹⁷My bones ached with pain; they looked and stared on me.
¹⁸They parted my garments among them, and cast lots on my vesture.

¹⁹But, Yahvah, do not be far from me; god, god, stay and help me.
²⁰Deliver my soul from the sword, my only one from the hand of the vicious.
²¹Save me from the lion's mouth; save my meekness from the haughty,
²²that I may declare your name to my brothers; in the middle of the congregation, I will praise you.
²³You who revere Yahvah, praise him; all you, the offspring of Jacob, glorify him; and fear him, all you sons of Israel.
²⁴For he has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the poor; nor has he turned away his face from him; but when he cried to him, he heard him.

²⁵My praise will be of you in the great congregation; I will fulfill my vows before those who worship him.
²⁶The poor will eat and be satisfied; they will praise Yahvah that seek him; their hearts will live forever.

²⁷All the ends of the world will remember and turn to Yahvah; and all the relatives of the Gentiles will worship before you.
²⁸For the kingdom is Yahvah's; he is the governor over the Gentiles.

²⁹All those who are hungry on land, will eat and worship before Yahvah; all those who are buried, will kneel before him; my soul is alive to him.
³⁰An offspring will serve him; its generations will proclaim master.
³¹They will come and declare his righteousness to a people that will be born, and tell what Yahvah has done.