Psalms

Chapter 22

  1 My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far
    from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?

  2 O my God, I cry in the day time, but thou hearest not; and in
    the night season, and am not silent.

  3 But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of
    Israel.

  4 Our fathers trusted in thee
    deliver them.

  5 They cried unto thee, and were delivered
    thee, and were not confounded.

  6 But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised
    of the people.

  7 All they that see me laugh me to scorn
    lip, they shake the head, saying,

  8 He trusted on the LORD that he would deliver him
    deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.

  9 But thou art he that took me out of the womb
    me hope when I was upon my mother's breasts.

 10 I was cast upon thee from the womb
    mother's belly.

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

 12 Many bulls have compassed me
    beset me round.

 13 They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a
    roaring lion.

 14 I 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.

 15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue
    cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of
    death.

 16 For dogs have compassed me
    inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.

 17 I may tell all my bones

 18 They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my
    vesture.

 19 But be not thou far from me, O LORD
    to help me.

 20 Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of
    the dog.

 21 Save me from the lion's mouth
    horns of the unicorns.

 22 I will declare thy name unto my brethren
    congregation will I praise thee.

 23 Ye that fear the LORD, praise him; all ye the seed of Jacob,
    glorify him; and fear him, all ye the seed of Israel.

 24 For 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.

 25 My praise shall be of thee in the great congregation
    pay my vows before them that fear him.

 26 The meek shall eat and be satisfied
    LORD that seek him: your heart shall live for ever.

 27 All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the
    LORD: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before
    thee.

 28 For the kingdom is the LORD's
    the nations.

 29 All they that be fat upon earth shall eat and worship
    they that go down to the dust shall bow before him: and none
    can keep alive his own soul.

 30 A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for
    a generation.

 31 They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a
    people that shall be born, that he hath done this.