1. My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?Why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning?

2. My God, I cry in the daytime, but you don't answer;in the night season, and am not silent.

3. But you are holy,you who inhabit the praises of Israel.

4. Our fathers trusted in you.They trusted, and you delivered them.

5. They cried to you, and were delivered.They trusted in you, and were not disappointed.

6. But I am a worm, and no man;a reproach of men, and despised by the people.

7. All those who see me mock me.They insult me with their lips. They shake their heads, saying,

8. "He trusts in The LORD.Let him deliver him.Let him rescue him, since he delights in him."

9. But you brought me out of the womb.You made me trust while at my mother's breasts.

10. I was thrown on you from my mother's womb.You are my God since my mother bore me.

11. Don't be far from me, for trouble is near.For there is no one to help.

12. Many bulls have surrounded me.Strong bulls of Bashan have encircled me.

13. They open their mouths wide against me,lions tearing prey and roaring.

14. I am poured out like water.All my bones are out of joint.My heart is like wax;it is melted within me.

15. My strength is dried up like a potsherd.My tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth.You have brought me into the dust of death.

16. For dogs have surrounded me.A company of evildoers have enclosed me.They have pierced my hands and feet.

17. I can count all of my bones.They look and stare at me.

18. They divide my garments among them.They cast lots for my clothing.

19. But don't be far off, The LORD.You are my help: hurry to help me.

20. Deliver my soul from the sword,my precious life from the power of the dog.

21. Save me from the lion's mouth!Yes, from the horns of the wild oxen, you have answered me.

22. I will declare your name to my brothers.Among the assembly, I will praise you.

23. You who fear The LORD, praise him!All you descendants of Jacob, glorify him!Stand in awe of him, all you descendants of Israel!

24. For he has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted,Neither has he hidden his face from him;but when he cried to him, he heard.

25. Of you comes my praise in the great assembly.I will pay my vows before those who fear him.

26. The humble shall eat and be satisfied.They shall praise the LORD who seek after him.Let your hearts live forever.

27. All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to The LORD.All the relatives of the nations shall worship before you.

28. For the kingdom is The LORD's.He is the ruler over the nations.

29. All the rich ones of the earth shall eat and worship.All those who go down to the dust shall bow before him,even he who can't keep his soul alive.

30. Posterity shall serve him.Future generations shall be told about the Lord.

31. They shall come and shall declare his righteousness to a people that shall be born,for he has done it.

1. In you, The LORD, I take refuge.Let me never be disappointed.Deliver me in your righteousness.

2. Bow down your ear to me.Deliver me speedily.Be to me a strong rock,a house of defense to save me.

3. For you are my rock and my fortress,therefore for your name's sake lead me and guide me.

4. Pluck me out of the net that they have laid secretly for me,for you are my stronghold.

5. Into your hand I commend my spirit.You redeem me, The LORD, God of truth.

6. I hate those who regard lying vanities,but I trust in The LORD.

7. I will be glad and rejoice in your loving kindness,for you have seen my affliction.You have known my soul in adversities.

8. You have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy.You have set my feet in a large place.

9. Have mercy on me, The LORD, for I am in distress.My eye, my soul, and my body waste away with grief.

10. For my life is spent with sorrow,my years with sighing.My strength fails because of my iniquity.My bones are wasted away.

11. Because of all my adversaries I have become utterly contemptible to my neighbors,A fear to my acquaintances.Those who saw me on the street fled from me.

12. I am forgotten from their hearts like a dead man.I am like broken pottery.

13. For I have heard the slander of many, terror on every side,while they conspire together against me,they plot to take away my life.

14. But I trust in you, The LORD.I said, "You are my God."

15. My times are in your hand.Deliver me from the hand of my enemies, and from those who persecute me.

16. Make your face to shine on your servant.Save me in your loving kindness.

17. Let me not be disappointed, The LORD, for I have called on you.Let the wicked be disappointed.Let them be silent in Sheol.

18. Let the lying lips be mute,which speak against the righteous insolently, with pride and contempt.

19. Oh how great is your goodness,which you have laid up for those who fear you,which you have worked for those who take refuge in you,before the sons of men!

20. In the shelter of your presence you will hide them from the plotting of man.You will keep them secretly in a dwelling away from the strife of tongues.

21. Praise be to The LORD,for he has shown me his marvelous loving kindness in a strong city.

22. As for me, I said in my haste, "I am cut off from before your eyes."Nevertheless you heard the voice of my petitions when I cried to you.

23. Oh love The LORD, all you his saints!The LORD preserves the faithful,and fully recompenses him who behaves arrogantly.

24. Be strong, and let your heart take courage,all you who hope in The LORD.

1. I will bless the LORD at all times.Psalm 34 is an acrostic poem, with each verse starting with a letter of the alphabet (ordered from Alef to Tav).His praise will always be in my mouth.

2. My soul shall boast in The LORD.The humble shall hear of it, and be glad.

3. Oh magnify the LORD with me.Let us exalt his name together.

4. I sought The LORD, and he answered me,and delivered me from all my fears.

5. They looked to him, and were radiant.Their faces shall never be covered with shame.

6. This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him,and saved him out of all his troubles.

7. The LORD's angel encamps around those who fear him,and delivers them.

8. Oh taste and see that the LORD is good.Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him.

9. Oh fear The LORD, you his saints,for there is no lack with those who fear him.

10. The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger,but those who seek the LORD shall not lack any good thing.

11. Come, you children, listen to me.I will teach you the fear of The LORD.

12. Who is someone who desires life,and loves many days, that he may see good?

13. Keep your tongue from evil,and your lips from speaking lies.

14. Depart from evil, and do good.seek peace, and pursue it.

15. The LORD's eyes are toward the righteous.His ears listen to their cry.

16. The LORD's face is against those who do evil,to cut off their memory from the earth.

17. The righteous cry, and the LORD hears,and delivers them out of all their troubles.

18. The LORD is near to those who have a broken heart,and saves those who have a crushed spirit.

19. Many are the afflictions of the righteous,but the LORD delivers him out of them all.

20. He protects all of his bones.Not one of them is broken.

21. Evil shall kill the wicked.Those who hate the righteous shall be condemned.

22. The LORD redeems the soul of his servants.None of those who take refuge in him shall be condemned.