Why, O Lord, do You reject my prayer, [and] turn Your face away from me?

I am poor and in troubles from my youth; and having been exalted, I was brought low and into despair.

Be not far from Me, for affliction is near; for there is no helper.

They have opened their mouth against Me, as a ravening and roaring lion.

My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and My tongue is glued to My throat; and You have brought Me down to the dust of death.

They counted all My bones; and they observed and looked upon Me.

But You, O Lord, be not far from Me; be ready for My aid.

Save Me from the lion's mouth; and [regard] My lowliness from the horns of the unicorns.

And turn not away Your face from Your servant; for I am afflicted; hear me speedily.

For You know my reproach, and my shame, and my confusion; all that afflict me are before You.

They gave [me] also gall for my food, and made me drink vinegar for my thirst.

In the day of my affliction I earnestly sought the Lord; [even] with my hands by night before Him, and I was not deceived; my soul refused to be comforted.

For the enemy has persecuted my soul; he has brought my life down to the ground; he has made me to dwell in a dark [place], as those that have been long dead.

Therefore my spirit was grieved in me; my heart was troubled within me.

Oh that one would indeed weigh the wrath that is upon me, and take up my grief in a balance together!

For the arrows of the Lord are in my body, whose violence drinks up my blood: whenever I am going to speak, they pierce me.

But His form was ignoble, and inferior to that of the children of men; [He was] a man in suffering, and acquainted with the bearing of sickness, for His face has turned from [us]; He was dishonored, and not esteemed.

The Lord also is pleased to purge Him from His stroke. If you give an offering for sin, Your soul shall see a long-lived seed;

the Lord also is pleased to take away from the travail of His soul, to show Him light, and to form [Him] with understanding; to justify the just one who serves many well; and He shall bear their sins.

VAU. He has filled me with bitterness, He has drenched me with gall.

He has also removed my soul from peace: I forgot prosperity.

ZAIN. I remembered by reason of my poverty, and because of persecution my bitterness and gall shall be remembered;

And taking along Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, He began to be sorrowful and deeply distressed.

He went a little farther and fell on His face, and prayed, saying, "O My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as You [will]."

And He took Peter, James, and John with Him, and He began to be greatly amazed, and deeply depressed.

Then He said to them, "My soul is deeply grieved to the point of death. Remain here and watch."

Their soul abhorred all food; and they drew near to the gates of death.

His soul also draws near to death, and his life is in Hades.