Why Have You Forsaken Me?

To the choirmaster: according to The Doe of the Dawn. A Psalm of David.

22 (A)My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
    Why are you so (B)far from saving me, from the words of my (C)groaning?

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34 And at the ninth hour Jesus (A)cried with a loud voice, (B)“Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?” which means, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”

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46 And about the ninth hour Jesus (A)cried out with a loud voice, saying, (B)“Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” that is, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”

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In the days of his flesh, (A)Jesus[a] offered up prayers and supplications, (B)with loud cries and tears, to him (C)who was able to save him from death, and (D)he was heard because of his reverence.

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Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 5:7 Greek he

16 For (A)dogs encompass me;
    a company of evildoers (B)encircles me;
they have (C)pierced my hands and feet[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 22:16 Some Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint, Vulgate, Syriac; most Hebrew manuscripts like a lion [they are at] my hands and feet

24 For my sighing comes (A)instead of[a] my bread,
    and my (B)groanings are poured out like water.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 3:24 Or like; Hebrew before

44 Then he said to them, (A)“These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, (B)that everything written about me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled.”

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Send Out Your Light and Your Truth

43 (A)Vindicate me, O God, and (B)defend my cause
    against an ungodly people,
from (C)the deceitful and unjust man
    deliver me!
For you are (D)the God in whom I take refuge;
    why have you (E)rejected me?
Why do I (F)go about mourning
    because of the oppression of the enemy?

(G)Send out your light and your truth;
    let them lead me;
let them bring me to your (H)holy hill
    and to your (I)dwelling!
Then I will go to the altar of God,
    to God my exceeding joy,
and I will praise you with the lyre,
    O God, my God.

(J)Why are you cast down, O my soul,
    and why are you in turmoil within me?
(K)Hope in God; for I shall again praise him,
    my salvation and my God.

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Why Do You Hide Yourself?

10 Why, O Lord, do you stand (A)far away?
    Why (B)do you hide yourself in (C)times of trouble?

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Keep your life (A)free from love of money, and (B)be content with what you have, for he has said, (C)“I will never leave you nor forsake you.”

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11 Be not (A)far from me,
    for trouble is near,
    and there is (B)none to help.

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22 (A)For the Lord will not forsake his people, (B)for his great name's sake, because (C)it has pleased the Lord to make you a people for himself.

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14 But I (A)trust in you, O Lord;
    I say, “You are my God.”
15 My (B)times are in your hand;
    (C)rescue me from the hand of my enemies and from my persecutors!
16 (D)Make your face shine on your servant;
    save me in your steadfast love!

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11 and say, “God has forsaken him;
    pursue and seize him,
    for there is none to deliver him.”

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Book Two

Why Are You Cast Down, O My Soul?

To the choirmaster. A Maskil[a] of (A)the Sons of Korah.

42 (B)As a deer pants for flowing streams,
    so pants my soul for you, O God.
(C)My soul thirsts for God,
    for (D)the living God.
When shall I come and (E)appear before God?[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 42:1 Probably a musical or liturgical term
  2. Psalm 42:2 Revocalization yields and see the face of God

44 And (A)being in agony he prayed more earnestly; and his sweat became like great drops of blood falling down to the ground.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 22:44 Some manuscripts omit verses 43 and 44

13 (A)I bring near my righteousness; it is not far off,
    and my salvation will not delay;
(B)I will put salvation in Zion,
    for Israel my glory.”

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I am feeble and crushed;
    I (A)groan because of the tumult of my heart.

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28 For the Lord (A)loves justice;
    he will not forsake his (B)saints.
They are preserved forever,
    but the children of the wicked shall be (C)cut off.

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For when I kept silent, my (A)bones wasted away
    through my (B)groaning all day long.
For day and night your (C)hand was heavy upon me;
    my strength was dried up[a] as by the heat of summer. Selah

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 32:4 Hebrew my vitality was changed