Psalms22

¹To the choirmaster : according to The Doe of the Dawn . A Psalm of David . My God , my God , why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, from the words of my groaning ?

²O my God , I cry by day , but you do not answer , and by night , but I find no rest .

³Yet you are holy , enthroned on the praises of Israel .

⁴In you our fathers trusted ; they trusted , and you delivered them.

⁵To you they cried and were rescued ; in you they trusted and were not put to shame .

⁶But I am a worm and not a man , scorned by mankind and despised by the people .

⁷All who see me mock me; they make mouths at me; they wag their heads ;

⁸He trusts in the Lord; let him deliver him; let him rescue him, for he delights in him!

⁹Yet you are he who took me from the womb ; you made me trust you at my mother’s breasts .

¹⁰On you was I cast from my birth , and from my mother’s womb you have been my God .

¹¹Be not far from me, for trouble is near , and there is none to help .

¹²Many bulls encompass me; strong bulls of Bashan surround me;

¹³they open wide their mouths at me, like a ravening and roaring lion .

¹⁴I am poured out like water , and all my bones are out of joint ; my heart is like wax ; it is melted within my breast ;

¹⁵my strength is dried up like a potsherd , and my tongue sticks to my jaws ; you lay me in the dust of death .

¹⁶For dogs encompass me; a company of evildoers encircles me; they have pierced my hands and feet —

¹⁷I can count all my bones — they stare and gloat over me;

¹⁸they divide my garments among them, and for my clothing they cast lots .

¹⁹But you, O Lord, do not be far off! O you my help , come quickly to my aid !

²⁰Deliver my soul from the sword , my precious life from the power of the dog !

²¹Save me from the mouth of the lion ! You have rescued me from the horns of the wild oxen !

²²I will tell of your name to my brothers ; in the midst of the congregation I will praise you:

²³You who fear the Lord, praise him! All you offspring of Jacob , glorify him, and stand in awe of him, all you offspring of Israel !

²⁴For he has not despised or abhorred the affliction of the afflicted , and he has not hidden his face from him, but has heard , when he cried to him.

²⁵From you comes my praise in the great congregation ; my vows I will perform before those who fear him.

²⁶The afflicted shall eat and be satisfied ; those who seek him shall praise the Lord! May your hearts live forever !

²⁷All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to the Lord, and all the families of the nations shall worship before you.

²⁸For kingship belongs to the Lord, and he rules over the nations .

²⁹All the prosperous of the earth eat and worship ; before him shall bow all who go down to the dust , even the one who could not keep himself alive .

³⁰Posterity shall serve him; it shall be told of the Lord to the coming generation ;

³¹they shall come and proclaim his righteousness to a people unborn , that he has done it.