2: O my God, I cry in the day time, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.

3: But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel.

4: Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them.

5: They cried unto thee, and were delivered: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded.

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

7: All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,

8: He trusted on the LORD that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.

9: But thou art he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother's breasts.

10: I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou art my God from my mother's belly.

11: Be not far from me; for trouble is near; for there is none to help.

12: Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.

13: They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.

14: I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.

15: My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.

16: For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.