Psalm 22:1–18
1 My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?t
Why are you so faru from saving me,
so far from my cries of anguish?v
2 My God, I cry out by day, but you do not answer,w
by night,x but I find no rest.b
3 Yet you are enthroned as the Holy One;y
you are the one Israel praises.c z
4 In you our ancestors put their trust;
they trusted and you delivered them.a
5 To you they cried outb and were saved;
in you they trustedc and were not put to shame.d
6 But I am a worme and not a man,
scorned by everyone,f despisedg by the people.
7 All who see me mock me;h
they hurl insults,i shaking their heads.j
8 “He trusts in the Lord,” they say,
“let the Lord rescue him.k
Let him deliver him,l
since he delightsm in him.”
9 Yet you brought me out of the womb;n
you made me trusto in you, even at my mother’s breast.
10 From birthp I was cast on you;
from my mother’s womb you have been my God.
11 Do not be far from me,q
for trouble is nearr
and there is no one to help.s
strong bulls of Bashanv encircle me.
13 Roaring lionsw that tear their preyx
open their mouths widey against me.
14 I am poured out like water,
and all my bones are out of joint.z
My heart has turned to wax;a
it has meltedb within me.
15 My mouthd is dried up like a potsherd,c
and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth;d
you lay me in the duste of death.
16 Dogsf surround me,
a pack of villains encircles me;
they piercee g my hands and my feet.
17 All my bones are on display;
people stareh and gloat over me.i