A Messianic Psalm of David—He foretells events in Messiah’s life—Messiah says: My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?—They pierce his hands and feet—He shall yet govern among all nations.

 ^aMY^• God, my God, why hast thou ^bforsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from ^cthe^• words of my roaring?

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

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

 Our fathers ^atrusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them.

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

 But I am a worm, and no man; a ^areproach of men, and ^bdespised^• of the people.

 All they that see me laugh me to ^ascorn^•: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,

 He ^atrusted^• on the LORD that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.

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

 I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou art my God from my mother’s belly.

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

 Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.

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

 I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my ^aheart^• is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.

 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.

 For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the ^awicked have inclosed me: they ^bpierced my hands and my feet.

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

 They part my ^agarments^• among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.

 But be not thou far from me, O LORD: O my strength, ^ahaste thee to help me.

 Deliver my soul from the sword; ^amy^• darling from the power of the dog.

 Save me from the lion’s mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the ^aunicorns^•.

 I will declare thy ^aname^• unto my brethren: in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee.

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

 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.

 My praise shall be of thee in the great ^acongregation: I will pay my vows before them that fear him.

 The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the LORD that seek him: your heart shall live for ever.

 All the ends of the ^aworld shall remember and turn unto the LORD: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee.

 For the ^akingdom^• is the LORD’s: and he is the ^bgovernor among the nations.

 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 ^asoul.

 A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation.

 They shall come, and shall ^adeclare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that he hath done this.