Psalm 22

₁My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

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

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

And in the night season, and am not silent.

₃But thou art holy,

O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel.

₄Our fathers trusted in thee:

They trusted, and thou didst deliver them.

₅They cried unto thee, and were delivered:

They trusted in thee, and were not confounded.

₆But I am a worm, and no man;

A reproach of men, and despised of the people.

₇All they that see me laugh me to scorn:

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

₈He trusted on the LORD that he would deliver him:

Let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.

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

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

₁₀I was cast upon thee from the womb:

Thou art my God from my mother's belly.

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

For there is none to help.

₁₂Many bulls have compassed me:

Strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.

₁₃They gaped upon me with their mouths,

As a ravening and a roaring lion.

₁₄I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint:

My heart is like wax; It is melted in the midst of my bowels.

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.

₁₆For dogs have compassed me:

The assembly of the wicked have inclosed me:

They pierced my hands and my feet. ₁₇I may tell all my bones:

They look and stare upon me.

₁₈They part my garments among them,

And cast lots upon my vesture.

₁₉But be not thou far from me, O LORD:

O my strength, haste thee to help me.

₂₀Deliver my soul from the sword;

My darling from the power of the dog.

₂₁Save me from the lion's mouth:

For thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns.

₂₂I will declare thy name unto my brethren:

In the midst of the congregation will I praise thee.

₂₃Ye that fear the LORD, praise him;

All ye the seed of Jacob, glorify 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 when he cried unto him, he heard.

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

I will pay my vows before them that fear him.

₂₆The meek shall eat and be satisfied:

They shall praise the LORD that seek him: Your heart shall live for ever.

₂₇All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the LORD:

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

₂₈For the kingdom is the LORD's:

And he is the governor among the nations.

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

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

And none can keep alive his own soul.

₃₀A seed shall serve him;

It shall be accounted to the LORD for a generation.

₃₁They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness

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