The sufferer's prayer and the crucifixion

¹ My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning?

² My God, I cry in the daytime, but you don’t answer; in the night season, and am not silent.

³ But you are holy, you who inhabit the praises of Israel.

⁴ Our fathers trusted in you. They trusted, and you delivered them.

⁵ They cried to you, and were delivered. They trusted in you, and were not disappointed.

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

⁷ All those who see me mock me. They insult me with their lips. They shake their heads, saying,

⁸ “He trusts in Yahweh. Let him deliver him. Let him rescue him, since he delights in him.”

⁹ But you brought me out of the womb. You made me trust while at my mother’s breasts.

¹⁰ I was thrown on you from my mother’s womb. You are my God since my mother bore me.

¹¹ Don’t be far from me, for trouble is near. For there is no one to help.

¹² Many bulls have surrounded me. Strong bulls of Bashan have encircled me.

¹³ They open their mouths wide against me, lions tearing prey and roaring.

¹⁴ I am poured out like water. All my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax. It is melted within me.

¹⁵ My strength is dried up like a potsherd. My tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You have brought me into the dust of death.

¹⁶ For dogs have surrounded me. A company of evildoers have enclosed me. They have pierced my hands and feet.

¹⁷ I can count all of my bones. They look and stare at me.

¹⁸ They divide my garments among them. They cast lots for my clothing.

¹⁹ But don’t be far off, Yahweh. You are my help. Hurry to help me!

²⁰ Deliver my soul from the sword, my precious life from the power of the dog.

²¹ Save me from the lion’s mouth! Yes, you have rescued me from the horns of the wild oxen.

²² I will declare your name to my brothers. Among the assembly, I will praise you.

²³ You who fear Yahweh, praise him! All you descendants of Jacob, glorify him! Stand in awe of him, all you descendants of Israel!

²⁴ For he has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, Neither has he hidden his face from him; but when he cried to him, he heard.

²⁵ My praise of you comes in the great assembly. I will pay my vows before those who fear him.

²⁶ The humble shall eat and be satisfied. They shall praise Yahweh who seek after him. Let your hearts live forever.

²⁷ All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to Yahweh. All the relatives of the nations shall worship before you.

²⁸ For the kingdom is Yahweh’s. He is the ruler over the nations.

²⁹ All the rich ones of the earth shall eat and worship. All those who go down to the dust shall bow before him, even he who can’t keep his soul alive.

³⁰ Posterity shall serve him. Future generations shall be told about the Lord.

³¹ They shall come and shall declare his righteousness to a people that shall be born, for he has done it.

²⁴ Crucifying him, they parted his garments among them, casting lots on them, what each should take.

²⁵ It was the third hour, and they crucified him.

²⁶ The superscription of his accusation was written over him, “THE KING OF THE JEWS.”

²⁷ With him they crucified two robbers; one on his right hand, and one on his left.

²⁸ The Scripture was fulfilled, which says, “He was counted with transgressors.”

²⁹ Those who passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads, and saying, “Ha! You who destroy the temple, and build it in three days,

³⁰ save yourself, and come down from the cross!”

³¹ Likewise, also the chief priests mocking among themselves with the scribes said, “He saved others. He can’t save himself.

³² Let the Christ, the King of Israel, now come down from the cross, that we may see and believe him.” Those who were crucified with him also insulted him.

³³ When the sixth hour had come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour.

³⁴ 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?”

³⁵ Some of those who stood by, when they heard it, said, “Behold, he is calling Elijah.”

³⁶ One ran, and filling a sponge full of vinegar, put it on a reed, and gave it to him to drink, saying, “Let him be. Let’s see whether Elijah comes to take him down.”

³⁷ Jesus cried out with a loud voice, and gave up the spirit.

³⁸ The veil of the temple was torn in two from the top to the bottom.

³⁹ When the centurion, who stood by opposite him, saw that he cried out like this and breathed his last, he said, “Truly this man was the Son of God!”

³⁵ When they had crucified him, they divided his clothing among them, casting lots,

³⁶ and they sat and watched him there.

³⁷ They set up over his head the accusation against him written, “THIS IS JESUS, THE KING OF THE JEWS.”

³⁸ Then there were two robbers crucified with him, one on his right hand and one on the left.

³⁹ Those who passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads,

⁴⁰ and saying, “You who destroy the temple, and build it in three days, save yourself! If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross!”

⁴¹ Likewise the chief priests also mocking, with the scribes, the Pharisees, and the elders, said,

⁴² “He saved others, but he can’t save himself. If he is the King of Israel, let him come down from the cross now, and we will believe in him.

⁴³ He trusts in God. Let God deliver him now, if he wants him; for he said, ‘I am the Son of God.’ ”

⁴⁴ The robbers also who were crucified with him cast on him the same reproach.

⁴⁵ Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour.

⁴⁶ 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?”