The Webster Bible WBT
New International Version NIV
1 To the chief Musician upon Aijeleth Shahar, A Psalm of David. My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? [why art thou so far] from helping me, [and from] the words of my roaring?
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My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, so far from my cries of anguish?
2 O my God, I cry in the day-time, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.
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My God, I cry out by day, but you do not answer, by night, but I find no rest.
3 But thou [art] holy, [O thou] that inhabitest the praises of Israel.
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Yet you are enthroned as the Holy One; you are the one Israel praises.
4 Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them.
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In you our ancestors put their trust; they trusted and you delivered them.
5 They cried to thee, and were delivered: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded.
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To you they cried out and were saved; in you they trusted and were not put to shame.
6 But I [am] a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised by the people.
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But I am a worm and not a man, scorned by everyone, despised by the people.
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