Spotlight on the Soul

¹ My God! My God, why have you left me all alone? Why are you so far from saving me so far from my anguished groans? ² My God, I cry out during the day, but you don’t answer; even at nighttime I don’t stop. ³ You are the holy one, enthroned. You are Israel’s praise. ⁴ Our ancestors trusted you they trusted you and you rescued them; ⁵ they cried out to you and they were saved; they trusted you and they weren’t ashamed. ⁶ But I’m just a worm, less than human; insulted by one person, despised by another. ⁷ All who see me make fun of me they gape, shaking their heads: ⁸ “He committed himself to the LORD, so let God rescue him; let God deliver him because God likes him so much.” ⁹ But you are the one who pulled me from the womb, placing me safely at my mother’s breasts. ¹⁰ I was thrown on you from birth; you’ve been my God since I was in my mother’s womb. ¹¹ Please don’t be far from me, because trouble is near and there’s no one to help. ¹² Many bulls surround me; mighty bulls from Bashan encircle me. ¹³ They open their mouths at me like a lion ripping and roaring! ¹⁴ I’m poured out like water. All my bones have fallen apart. My heart is like wax; it melts inside me. ¹⁵ My strength is dried up like a piece of broken pottery. My tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth; you’ve set me down in the dirt of death.