I will put hostility between you and the woman,and between your offspring and her offspring.He will bruise your head,and you will bruise his heel."

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.

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

21. They also gave me gall for my food.In my thirst, they gave me vinegar to drink.

22. Let their table before them become a snare.May it become a retribution and a trap.

23. Let their eyes be darkened, so that they can't see.Let their backs be continually bent.

24. Pour out your indignation on them.Let the fierceness of your anger overtake them.

25. Let their habitation be desolate.Let no one dwell in their tents.

26. For they persecute him whom you have wounded.They tell of the sorrow of those whom you have hurt.

I have also become a reproach to them.When they see me, they shake their head.