Psalms 38:8

At the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, “Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?” which is, being interpreted, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”

About the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, “Eli, Eli, lima sabachthani?” That is, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”

I will ask God, my rock, “Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?”

For you are the God of my strength. Why have you rejected me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell on it. Let all that makes black the day terrify it.

I am in pain and bowed down greatly. I go mourning all day long.

Relent, Yahweh! How long? Have compassion on your servants!

I chattered like a swallow or a crane. I moaned like a dove. My eyes weaken looking upward. Lord, I am oppressed. Be my security.”

He, in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and petitions with strong crying and tears to him who was able to save him from death, and having been heard for his godly fear,

My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning?

For dogs have surrounded me. A company of evildoers have enclosed me. They have pierced my hands and feet.

For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mixed my drink with tears,

But those of those who escape, they will escape and will be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning, everyone in his iniquity.

It is decreed: she is uncovered, she is carried away; and her servants moan as with the voice of doves, beating on their breasts.

For my sighing comes before I eat. My groanings are poured out like water.

How long, Yahweh? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?

Don’t be far from me, for trouble is near. For there is no one to help.

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

Don’t gather my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloodthirsty men;

When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.

Let me hear joy and gladness, that the bones which you have broken may rejoice.

Attend to me, and answer me. I am restless in my complaint, and moan

You have fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in large measure.

Thorns will come up in its palaces, nettles and thistles in its fortresses; and it will be a habitation of jackals, a court for ostriches.

Give glory to Yahweh your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and while you look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death, and makes it deep darkness.

Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches! Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord. Lift up your hands toward him for the life of your young children, who faint for hunger at the head of every street.

You have removed my soul far away from peace. I forgot prosperity.

“Now my soul is troubled. What shall I say? ‘Father, save me from this time?’ But I came to this time for this cause.

pursued, yet not forsaken; struck down, yet not destroyed;

Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.”

and two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, such as he is able to afford; and the one shall be a sin offering, and the other a burnt offering.

My soul refuses to touch them. They are as loathsome food to me.

How long will you not look away from me, nor leave me alone until I swallow down my spittle?

If I have sinned, what do I do to you, you watcher of men? Why have you set me as a mark for you, so that I am a burden to myself?

the land dark as midnight, of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is as midnight.’ ”

I was at ease, and he broke me apart. Yes, he has taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces. He has also set me up for his target.

My face is red with weeping. Deep darkness is on my eyelids.

“Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard. I cry for help, but there is no justice.

“Now my soul is poured out within me. Days of affliction have taken hold of me.

I go mourning without the sun. I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help.

I am a brother to jackals, and a companion to ostriches.

My skin grows black and peels from me. My bones are burned with heat.

so that his life abhors bread, and his soul dainty food.

Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am faint. Yahweh, heal me, for my bones are troubled.

My soul is also in great anguish. But you, Yahweh—how long?

My eye wastes away because of grief. It grows old because of all my adversaries.

Why do you stand far off, Yahweh? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?

Preserve me, God, for I take refuge in you.

All my bones shall say, “Yahweh, who is like you, who delivers the poor from him who is too strong for him; yes, the poor and the needy from him who robs him?”

For Yahweh loves justice, and doesn’t forsake his saints. They are preserved forever, but the children of the wicked shall be cut off.

My wounds are loathsome and corrupt because of my foolishness.

Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him for the saving help of his presence.

though you have crushed us in the haunt of jackals, and covered us with the shadow of death.

saying, “God has forsaken him. Pursue and take him, for no one will rescue him.”

My God, make them like tumbleweed, like chaff before the wind.

Surely his salvation is near those who fear him, that glory may dwell in our land.

Teach me to do your will, for you are my God. Your Spirit is good. Lead me in the land of uprightness.

A man’s spirit will sustain him in sickness, but a crushed spirit, who can bear?

He who conceals his sins doesn’t prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy.

But Zion said, “Yahweh has forsaken me, and the Lord has forgotten me.”

Your sons have fainted. They lie at the head of all the streets, like an antelope in a net. They are full of Yahweh’s wrath, the rebuke of your God.

I was angry because of the iniquity of his covetousness and struck him. I hid myself and was angry; and he went on backsliding in the way of his heart.

We all roar like bears and moan bitterly like doves. We look for justice, but there is none, for salvation, but it is far off from us.

For Yahweh says: “We have heard a voice of trembling; a voice of fear, and not of peace.

Judah has gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude. She dwells among the nations. She finds no rest. All her persecutors overtook her within the straits.

He has made my flesh and my skin old. He has broken my bones.

Yes, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.

“You have covered us with anger and pursued us. You have killed. You have not pitied.

Your turbans will be on your heads, and your sandals on your feet. You won’t mourn or weep; but you will pine away in your iniquities, and moan one toward another.

They haven’t cried to me with their heart, but they howl on their beds. They assemble themselves for grain and new wine. They turn away from me.

In that day, says Yahweh, there will be the noise of a cry from the fish gate, a wailing from the second quarter, and a great crashing from the hills.

the people who sat in darkness saw a great light, to those who sat in the region and shadow of death, to them light has dawned.”

to shine on those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death; to guide our feet into the way of peace.”

Being in agony he prayed more earnestly. His sweat became like great drops of blood falling down on the ground.

He said to them, “This is what I told you, while I was still with you, that all things which are written in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms, concerning me must be fulfilled.”