Why Have You Forsaken Me?
To the choirmaster: according to The Doe of the Dawn. A Psalm of David.
1 Cited Matt. 27:46;Mark 15:34My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
Why are you so ver. 11far from saving me, from the words of my Ps. 32:3;38:8;Job 3:24;Isa. 59:11;[Heb. 5:7]groaning?
2 O my God, I cry by Ps. 88:1day, but you do not answer,
and by night, but I find no rest.
3 Yet you are Lev. 19:2holy,
[Ps. 80:1;99:1] enthroned on [Ps. 9:11,14;65:1;102:21;147:12]the praises22:3 Or dwelling in the praises of Israel.
4 In you our fathers trusted;
they trusted, and you delivered them.
5 To you they See Judg. 3:9cried and were rescued;
in you they Ps. 25:2;31:1;71:1;Isa. 49:23;Rom. 9:33trusted and were not put to shame.
6 But I am Job 25:6;Isa. 41:14a worm and not a man,
Ps. 69:19;109:25scorned by mankind and Isa. 49:7;53:3despised by the people.
7 All who see me See Matt. 27:39-43;Mark 15:29-32;Luke 23:35,36mock me;
they make mouths at me; they Ps. 109:25;[Ps. 44:14;2 Kgs. 19:21;Isa. 37:22;Lam. 2:15]wag their heads;
8 [Ps. 37:5;Prov. 16:3] "He trusts in the Lord; let him Ps. 91:14deliver him;
let him rescue him, for he Ps. 18:19;Matt. 3:17;Mark 1:11;Luke 3:22delights in him!"
9 Yet you are he who Ps. 71:6took me from the womb;
you made me trust you at my mother’s breasts.
10 On you was I cast from my birth,
and from Isa. 46:3;49:1;Gal. 1:15my mother’s womb you have been my God.
11 Be not See ver. 1;Ps. 10:1far from me,
for trouble is near,
and there is Ps. 107:12;2 Kgs. 14:26;Isa. 63:5none to help.
12 Many bulls encompass me;
[Ps. 68:30(Heb.)] strong bulls of Amos 4:1Bashan surround me;
13 they Ps. 35:21;Job 16:10;Lam. 2:16;3:46open wide their mouths at me,
like a ravening and roaring lion.
14 I am [Lam. 2:11] poured out like water,
and all my bones are [Dan. 5:6] out of joint;
my [Job 23:16;Nah. 2:10]; See Josh. 2:11heart is like See Ps. 68:2wax;
it is melted within my breast;
15 my strength is Prov. 17:22dried up like a potsherd,
and my [John 19:28;See Job 29:10]tongue sticks to my jaws;
you lay me in the dust of death.
16 For [Phil. 3:2;Rev. 22:15] dogs encompass me;
a company of evildoers Ps. 88:17encircles me;
they have Matt. 27:35;Mark 15:24;Luke 23:33;24:40;John 19:23,37;20:25;[Zech. 12:10]pierced my hands and feet22:16 Some Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint, Vulgate, Syriac; most Hebrew manuscripts like a lion [they are at] my hands and feet—
17 I can count all my bones—
they Luke 23:35stare and gloat over me;
18 Cited John 19:24;[Matt. 27:35;Luke 23:34]they divide my garments among them,
and for my clothing they cast lots.
19 But you, O Lord, [See ver. 11above] do not be far off!
O you my help, Ps. 38:22come quickly to my aid!
20 Deliver my soul from the sword,
my precious life from the power of [Phil. 3:2;Rev. 22:15]the dog!
21 Save me from 2 Tim. 4:17the mouth of the lion!
You have rescued22:21 Hebrew answered me from the horns of See Num. 23:22the wild oxen!
22 Cited Heb. 2:12;[Ps. 102:21;John 17:6] I will tell of your name to my Matt. 28:10;John 20:17;Rom. 8:29brothers;
in the midst of the congregation I will praise you:
23 You who Ps. 135:20fear the Lord, praise him!
All you offspring of Jacob, Ps. 50:15,23glorify him,
and stand in awe of him, all you offspring of Israel!
24 For he has not despised or abhorred
the affliction of [Isa. 53:4,7] the afflicted,
and he has not Ps. 10:1;13:1;See Job 13:24hidden his face from him,
but has heard, when he Heb. 5:7cried to him.
25 From you comes my praise in the great Ps. 35:18;40:9,10;111:1congregation;
my Lev. 7:16vows I will Ps. 66:13;Jonah 2:9;See Ps. 50:14perform before those who fear him.
26 Ps. 69:32The afflicted22:26 Or The meek shall Isa. 25:6;65:13eat and be satisfied;
those who seek him shall praise the Lord!
May your hearts John 6:51live forever!
27 All Ps. 2:8;67:7the ends of the earth shall remember
and turn to the Lord,
and all Ps. 96:7the families of the nations
shall worship before you.
28 For Obad. 21;[Ps. 47:8;Zech. 14:9]kingship belongs to the Lord,
and he rules over the nations.
29 All [Ps. 45:12] the prosperous of the earth eat and worship;
before him shall Ps. 72:9;[Phil. 2:10] bow all who go down to the dust,
even the one who could not Ezek. 18:27keep himself alive.
30 Posterity shall serve him;
it shall be told of the Lord to the coming Ps. 48:13;71:18generation;
31 they shall Ps. 86:9;[Isa. 60:3] come and proclaim his righteousness to a people yet Ps. 78:6;102:18unborn,
that he has done it.