Psalm 22:1–31

^1uMy God, my God, why have you forsaken me?

Why are you so ^vfar from saving me, from the words of my ^wgroaning?

²O my God, I cry by ^xday, but you do not answer,

and by night, but I find no rest.

³Yet you are ^yholy,

^zenthroned on ^athe praises¹ of Israel.

⁴In you our fathers trusted;

they trusted, and you delivered them.

⁵To you they ^bcried and were rescued;

in you they ^ctrusted and were not put to shame.

⁶But I am ^da worm and not a man,

^escorned by mankind and ^fdespised by the people.

⁷All who see me ^gmock me;

they make mouths at me; they ^hwag their heads;

⁸ⁱ“He trusts in the Lord; let him ^jdeliver him;

let him rescue him, for he ^kdelights in him!”

⁹Yet you are he who ^ltook me from the womb;

you made me trust you at my mother’s breasts.

¹⁰On you was I cast from my birth,

and from ^mmy mother’s womb you have been my God.

¹¹Be not ⁿfar from me,

for trouble is near,

and there is ^onone to help.

¹²Many bulls encompass me;

^pstrong bulls of ^qBashan surround me;

¹³they ^ropen wide their mouths at me,

like a ravening and roaring lion.

¹⁴I am ^spoured out like water,

and all my bones are ^tout of joint;

my ^uheart is like ^vwax;

it is melted within my breast;

¹⁵my strength is ^wdried up like a potsherd,

and my ^xtongue sticks to my jaws;

you lay me in the dust of death.

¹⁶For ^ydogs encompass me;

a company of evildoers ^zencircles me;

they have ^apierced my hands and feet²—

¹⁷I can count all my bones—

they ^bstare and gloat over me;

^18cthey divide my garments among them,

and for my clothing they cast lots.

¹⁹But you, O Lord, ⁿdo not be far off!

O you my help, ^dcome quickly to my aid!

²⁰Deliver my soul from the sword,

my precious life from the power of ^ethe dog!

²¹Save me from ^fthe mouth of the lion!

You have rescued³ me from the horns of ^gthe wild oxen!

^22hI will tell of your name to my ⁱbrothers;

in the midst of the congregation I will praise you:

²³You who ^jfear the Lord, praise him!

All you offspring of Jacob, ^kglorify him,

and stand in awe of him, all you offspring of Israel!

²⁴For he has not despised or abhorred

the affliction of ^lthe afflicted,

and he has not ^mhidden his face from him,

but has heard, when he ⁿcried to him.

²⁵From you comes my praise in the great ^ocongregation;

my ^pvows I will ^qperform before those who fear him.

^26rThe afflicted⁴ shall ^seat and be satisfied;

those who seek him shall praise the Lord!

May your hearts ^tlive forever!

²⁷All ^uthe ends of the earth shall remember

and turn to the Lord,

and all ^vthe families of the nations

shall worship before you.

²⁸For ^wkingship belongs to the Lord,

and he rules over the nations.

²⁹All ^xthe prosperous of the earth eat and worship;

before him shall ^ybow all who go down to the dust,

even the one who could not ^zkeep himself alive.

³⁰Posterity shall serve him;

it shall be told of the Lord to the coming ^ageneration;

³¹they shall ^bcome and proclaim his righteousness to a people yet ^cunborn,

that he has done it.