My God, my God, why have you abandoned me? I have cried desperately for help, but still it does not come.

Then I will go to your altar, O God; you are the source of my happiness. I will play my harp and sing praise to you, O God, my God.

LORD God, my savior, I cry out all day, and at night I come before you.

So many troubles have fallen on me that I am close to death.

He went a little farther on, threw himself face downward on the ground, and prayed, "My Father, if it is possible, take this cup of suffering from me! Yet not what I want, but what you want."

At about three o'clock Jesus cried out with a loud shout, "Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?" which means, "My God, my God, why did you abandon me?"

I spend the night in deep thought; I meditate, and this is what I ask myself:

Has he stopped loving us? Does his promise no longer stand?

Then I said, "What hurts me most is this--- that God is no longer powerful."

When I felt my life slipping away, then, O LORD, I prayed to you, and in your holy Temple you heard me.

In despair and far from home I call to you! Take me to a safe refuge,

So David and his men started crossing the Jordan, and by daybreak they had all gone across.

When David arrived at Mahanaim, he was met by Shobi son of Nahash, from the city of Rabbah in Ammon, and by Machir son of Ammiel, from Lodebar, and by Barzillai, from Rogelim in Gilead.

"At that time we took from those two Amorite kings the land east of the Jordan River, from the Arnon River to Mount Hermon.

(Mount Hermon is called Sirion by the Sidonians, and Senir by the Amorites.)

They occupied his land and the land of King Og of Bashan, the other Amorite king who lived east of the Jordan.

This land extended from the town of Aroer, on the edge of the Arnon River, all the way north to Mount Sirion, that is, Mount Hermon.

It is like the dew on Mount Hermon, falling on the hills of Zion. That is where the LORD has promised his blessing--- life that never ends.