Psalm 22

Psalm XXII.

To the chief Musician upon Aijeleth Shahar, A Psalm of David.

^aMy God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

Why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of ^bmy roaring?

²O my God, I cry ^bbin the daytime, but thou hearest not;

And in the night season, and am not silent.

³But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the ^cpraises of Israel.

⁴Our fathers trusted in thee:

They trusted, and thou didst deliver them.

⁵They ^dcried unto thee, and were delivered:

^eThey trusted in thee, and were not confounded.

⁶But I am ^fa worm, and no man;

A ^ffreproach of men, and ^gdespised of the people.

^7hAll they that see me laugh me to scorn:

They shoot out the lip, ⁱthey shake the head, saying,

^8jHe trusted on the Lord that ^khe would deliver him:

Let him deliver him, seeing he ^ldelighted in him.

⁹But thou art he that ^mntook me out of the womb:

Thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother’s breasts.

¹⁰I was ⁿcast upon thee from the womb:

Thou art my God ^ofrom my mother’s belly.

¹¹Be not far from me; for trouble is near;

For there is none to help.

¹²Many bulls have compassed me:

^pStrong ^qbulls of Bashan have ^rbeset me round.

^13sThey gaped upon me with their mouths,

As a ravening and a roaring lion.

¹⁴I am ^sspoured out like water,

And all my bones are out of joint:

^tMy heart is ^ulike wax;

It is ^tmelted in the midst of my bowels.

¹⁵My strength is ^xdried up like a potsherd;

And ^ymy tongue cleaveth to my jaws;

And thou hast brought me into the dust of death.

¹⁶For ^zdogs have compassed me:

The assembly of the wicked have ^zzinclosed me:

^aThey pierced my hands and my feet.

¹⁷I may tell all my bones:

^bThey look and stare upon me.

^18cThey part my garments among them,

And cast lots upon my vesture.

¹⁹But be not thou far ^dfrom me, O Lord:

O my strength, haste thee to help me.

²⁰Deliver my soul from the sword;

My darling from the power of the ^edog.

^21fSave me from the lion’s mouth:

For thou hast ^gheard me from the horns of ^hthe unicorns.

²²ⁱI will declare thy name unto ^jmy brethren:

In the midst of the congregation will I praise thee.

^23kYe that fear the Lord, praise him;

All ye the seed of Jacob, ^lglorify him;

And fear him, all ye the seed of Israel.

²⁴For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted;

Neither hath he hid his face from him;

But ^mwhen he cried unto him, he heard.

²⁵My praise shall be of thee ⁿin the great congregation:

^oI will pay my vows before them that fear him.

^26pThe meek shall eat and be satisfied:

They shall praise the Lord that seek him:

^qYour heart shall ^rlive for ever.

^27sAll the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the Lord:

And all the ^tkindreds of the nations shall worship before thee.

^28uFor the kingdom is the Lord’s:

And he is the governor among the nations.

²⁹All they that be ^vfat upon earth shall eat and worship:

All they that go down to the dust shall ^wbow before him:

And none can keep alive his own soul.

³⁰A seed shall serve him;

^xIt shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation.

^31yThey shall come, and shall declare his righteousness

^zUnto a people that shall be born, that he hath done this.