³Yet you are holy,
enthroned on the praises of Israel.

⁴In you our fathers trusted;
they trusted, and you delivered them.
⁵To you they cried, and were saved;
n you they trusted, and were not disappointed.

⁶But I am a worm, and no man;
scorned by men, and despised by the people.
⁷All who see me mock at me,
they make mouths at me, they wag their heads;
⁸"He committed his cause to Yahweh;
let him deliver him, let him rescue him, for he delights in him!"

⁹Yet you are he who took me from the womb;
you kept me safe upon my mother's breasts.
¹⁰Upon you was I cast from my birth,
and since my mother bore me you have been my God.
¹¹Be not far from me,
for trouble is near and there is none to help.

¹²Many bulls encompass me,
strong bulls of Bashan surround me;
¹³they open wide their mouths at me,
like a ravening and roaring lion.
¹⁴I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint;
my heart is like wax, it is melted within my breast;
¹⁵my strength is dried up like a potsherd,
and my tongue cleaves to my jaws;
you lay me in the dust of death.

¹⁶Yea, dogs are round about me;
a company of evildoers encircle me;
they have pierced my hands and feet -
¹⁷I can count all my bones -
they stare and gloat over me;
¹⁸they divide my garments among them,
and for my raiment they cast lots.
¹⁹But, O Yahweh, do not be not far off!
O you my help, hasten to my aid!
²⁰Deliver my soul from the sword,
my life from the power of the dog!
²¹Save me from the mouth of the lion,
my afflicted soul from the horns of the wild oxen!

²²I will tell of your name to my brethren;
in the midst of the congregation I will praise you:
²³You who fear Yahweh, praise him!
all you sons of Jacob, glorify him,
and stand in awe of him, all you sons of Israel!
²⁴For he has not despised or abhorred the affliction of the afflicted;
and he has not hid his face from him, but has heard, when he cried to him.

²⁵From you comes my praise in the great congregation;
my vows I will pay before those who fear him.
²⁶The afflicted shall eat and be satisfied;
those who seek him shall praise Yahweh!
May your hearts live for ever!

²⁷All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to Yahweh;
and all the families of the nations shall worship before him.
²⁸For dominion belongs to Yahweh,
and he rules over the nations.

²⁹Yea, to him shall all the proud of the earth bow down;
before him shall bow all who go down to the dust,
and he who cannot keep himself alive.
³⁰Posterity shall serve him;
men shall tell of Yahweh to the coming generation,
³¹and proclaim his deliverance to a people unborn,
that he has wrought it.