Psalm 22:1–18

¹My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?^t

Why are you so far^u from saving me,

so far from my cries of anguish?^v

²My God, I cry out by day, but you do not answer,^w

by night,^x but I find no rest.^b

³Yet you are enthroned as the Holy One;^y

you are the one Israel praises.^cz

⁴In you our ancestors put their trust;

they trusted and you delivered them.^a

⁵To you they cried out^b and were saved;

in you they trusted^c and were not put to shame.^d

⁶But I am a worm^e and not a man,

scorned by everyone,^f despised^g by the people.

⁷All 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 delights^m in him.”

⁹Yet you brought me out of the womb;ⁿ

you made me trust^o in you, even at my mother’s breast.

¹⁰From birth^p I was cast on you;

from my mother’s womb you have been my God.

¹¹Do not be far from me,^q

for trouble is near^r

and there is no one to help.^s

¹²Many bulls^t surround me;^u

strong bulls of Bashan^v encircle me.

¹³Roaring lions^w that tear their prey^x

open their mouths wide^y against me.

¹⁴I am poured out like water,

and all my bones are out of joint.^z

My heart has turned to wax;^a

it has melted^b within me.

¹⁵My mouth^d is dried up like a potsherd,^c

and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth;^d

you lay me in the dust^e of death.

¹⁶Dogs^f surround me,

a pack of villains encircles me;

they pierce^eg my hands and my feet.

¹⁷All my bones are on display;

people stare^h and gloat over me.ⁱ

¹⁸They divide my clothes among them

and cast lots^j for my garment.^k