And even when I am old and gray-headed, O God, do not abandon me,
Until I declare Your [mighty] strength to this generation,
Your power to all who are to come.

My God, my God, why have You forsaken me?
Why are You so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning?

Saying, “God has abandoned him;
Pursue and seize him, for there is no one to rescue him.”

And those who know Your name [who have experienced Your precious mercy] will put their confident trust in You,
For You, O Lord, have not abandoned those who seek You.

Although my father and my mother have abandoned me,
Yet the Lord will take me up [adopt me as His child].

I have been young and now I am old,
Yet I have not seen the righteous (those in right standing with God) abandoned
Or his descendants pleading for bread.

For innumerable evils have encompassed me;
My sins have overtaken me, so that I am not able to see.
They are more numerous than the hairs of my head,
And my heart has failed me.

Do not hide Your face from me,
Do not turn Your servant away in anger;
You have been my help;
Do not abandon me nor leave me,
O God of my salvation!

Do not abandon me, O Lord;
O my God, do not be far from me.