The Psalms

Psalm 22

For the Chief Musician; set to Aijaleth hash-Shahar. A Psalm of David.

 ^22:1My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

 Why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning?

 ^22:2O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou answerest not;

 And in the night season, and am not silent.

 ^22:3But thou art holy,

 O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel.

 ^22:4Our fathers trusted in thee:

 They trusted, and thou didst deliver them.

 ^22:5They cried unto thee, and were delivered:

 They trusted in thee, and were not put to shame.

 ^22:6But I am a worm, and no man;

 A reproach of men, and despised of the people.

 ^22:7All they that see me laugh me to scorn:

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

 ^22:8Commit thyself unto Jehovah;

 Let him deliver him:

 Let him rescue him, seeing he delighteth in him.

 ^22:9But thou art he that took me out of the womb;

 Thou didst make me trust when I was upon my mother's breasts.

 ^22:10I was cast upon thee from the womb;

 Thou art my God since my mother bare me.

 ^22:11Be not far from me; for trouble is near;

 For there is none to help.

 ^22:12Many bulls have compassed me;

 Strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.

 ^22:13They gape upon me with their mouth,

 As a ravening and a roaring lion.

 ^22:14I am poured out like water,

 And all my bones are out of joint:

 My heart is like wax;

 It is melted within me.

 ^22:15My strength is dried up like a potsherd;

 And my tongue cleaveth to my jaws;

 And thou hast brought me into the dust of death.

 ^22:16For dogs have compassed me:

 A company of evil-doers have inclosed me;

 They pierced my hands and my feet.

 ^22:17I may count all my bones;

 They look and stare upon me.

 ^22:18They part my garments among them,

 And upon my vesture do they cast lots.

 ^22:19But be not thou far off, O Jehovah:

 O thou my succor, haste thee to help me.

 ^22:20Deliver my soul from the sword,

 My darling from the power of the dog.

 ^22:21Save me from the lion's mouth;

 Yea, from the horns of the wild-oxen thou hast answered me.

 ^22:22I will declare thy name unto my brethren:

 In the midst of the assembly will I praise thee.

 ^22:23Ye that fear Jehovah, praise him;

 All ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him;

 And stand in awe of him, all ye the seed of Israel.

 ^22:24For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted;

 Neither hath he hid his face from him;

 But when he cried unto him, he heard.

 ^22:25Of thee cometh my praise in the great assembly:

 I will pay my vows before them that fear him.

 ^22:26The meek shall eat and be satisfied;

 They shall praise Jehovah that seek after him:

 Let your heart live for ever.

 ^22:27All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn unto Jehovah;

 And all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee.

 ^22:28For the kingdom is Jehovah's;

 And he is the ruler over the nations.

 ^22:29All the fat ones of the earth shall eat and worship:

 All they that go down to the dust shall bow before him,

 Even he that cannot keep his soul alive.

 ^22:30A seed shall serve him;

 It shall be told of the Lord unto the next generation.

 ^22:31They shall come and shall declare his righteousness

 Unto a people that shall be born, that he hath done it.