Psalm 22

A Cry of Anguish and Song of Praise

1My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?[#Matt 27.46; Mark 15.34.]

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:[#Matt 27.39; Mark 15.29; Luke 23.35.]

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

8He trusted on the Lord that he would deliver him:[#Matt 27.43.]

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,[#Matt 27.35; Mark 15.24; Luke 23.34; John 19.24.]

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:[#Heb 2.12.]

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 .

King James Version 1611, spelling, punctuation and text formatting modernized by ABS in 1962; typesetting © 2010 American Bible Society.
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