My God My God O Why Have You: Psalm 22

Tune name is COLESHILL; from the Scottish Psalter c. 1650
Text is from The Book of Psalms for Singing, c. 1973.
Based on Psalm 22:1-10
1. My God, my God, O why have You
Forsaken me? O why
Are You so far from giving help
And from my groaning cry?
2. By day and night, my God, I call;
Your answer still delays.
And yet You are the holy One
Who dwells in Israel’s praise.
3. Our fathers put their trust in You;
From You their rescue came.
They begged You and You set them free;
They were not put to shame.
4. But as for me, I am a worm
And not a man at all.
To men, I am despised and base;
Their scornings on me fall.
5. All those who look at me will laugh
And cast reproach at me.
Their mouths they open wide, they wag
Their heads in mockery.
6. “The LORD was his reliance once;
Now see what God will send!
Yes, let God rise and set him free,
This man that was His friend!”
7. You took me from my mother’s womb
To safety at the breast.
Since birth, when I was cast on You,
In You, my God, I rest.