Psalms 22

1 To the chief Musician upon Aijeleth Shahar, A Psalm of David. 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 daytime, 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: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them.⋮

5 They cried unto thee, and were delivered: they trusted in 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: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,⋮

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

9 But thou art he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother’s breasts.⋮

10 I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou art my God from my 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: strong bulls of Bashan have 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: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.⋮

17 I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me.⋮

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

19 But be not thou far from me, O LORD: O my strength, haste thee 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: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns.⋮

22 I will declare thy name unto my brethren: in the midst of the 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: I will pay my vows before them that fear him.⋮

26 The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the 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: and he is the governor among the nations.⋮

29 All 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.⋮

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.⋮