- 1 O God my God wherefore doest thou
- forsake me utterly?
- And helpest not when I do make,
- my great complaint and cry?
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- 2 To thee my God even all day long,
- I do both cry and call:
- I cease not all the night and yet
- thou hearest not at all.
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- 3 Even thou that in thy sanctuary,
- and holy place doest dwell:
- Thou art the comfort and the joy,
- and glory of Israel.
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- 4 And he in whom our fathers old,
- had all their hope forever,
- And when they put their trust in thee,
- so didst thou them deliver.
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- 5 They were delivered ever when
- they called on thy name:
- And for the faith they had in thee,
- they were not put to shame.
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- 6 But now I am become a worm,
- more like than any man:
- An out-cast whom the people scorn,
- with all the spite they can.
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- 7 And me despise, as they behold
- me walking on the way:
- They grin, they mow, they nod their heads,
- and in this wise they say;
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- 8 This man did glory in the Lord,
- his favor and his love:
- Let him redeem and help him now,
- his power if he will prove.
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- 9 But Lord, out of me mother’s womb
- I came by thy behest:
- Thou didst preserve me still in hope,
- while I did suck her breast.
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- 10 I was committed from my bird,
- with thee to have abode:
- Since I was in my mother’s womb:
- thou hast been ever my God.
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- 11 Then Lord depart not now from me,
- in this my wretched grief:
- Since I have none to be my help,
- my succor and relief.
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- 12 So many bulls do ‘compass me,
- that be full strong of head:
- Yea, bulls so fat, as though they had
- in Bashan field been fed.
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- 13 They gape upon me greedily,
- as though they would me slay:
- Much like a lion roaring out,
- and ramping for his prey.
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- 14 But I drop down as water shed,
- my joints in sunder break:
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- 15 My heart doth in my body melt
- like wax against the heat.
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