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?


22:2
 O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.


22:3
 But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel.


22:4
 Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them.


22:5
 They cried unto thee, and were delivered: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded.


22:6
 But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.


22:7
 All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,


22:8
 He trusted on the LORD that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.


22:9
 But thou art he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother’s breasts.


22:10
 I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou art my God from my mother’s belly.


22:11
 Be not far from me; for trouble is near; for there is none to help.


22:12
 Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.


22:13
 They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.


22:14
 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.


22:15
 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.


22:16
 For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have enclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.


22:17
 I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me.


22:18
 They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.


22:19
 But be not thou far from me, O LORD: O my strength, haste thee to help me.


22:20
 Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog.


22:21
 Save me from the lion’s mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns.


22:22
 I will declare thy name unto my brethren: in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee.


22:23
 Ye that fear the LORD, praise him; all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him; and fear him, all ye the seed of Israel.


22:24
 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.


22:25
 My praise shall be of thee in the great congregation: I will pay my vows before them that fear him.


22:26
 The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the LORD that seek him: your heart shall live for ever.


22:27
 All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the LORD: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee.


22:28
 For the kingdom is the LORD’S: and he is the governor among the nations.


22:29
 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.


22:30
 A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation.


22:31
 They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that he hath done this.