Ps 22
0 Psalm 22 For the Chief Musician; set to Aijaleth hash-Shahar. A Psalm of David.
1
My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? [Why are you so] far from helping me, [and
from] the words of my groaning?
2
O my God, I cry in the daytime, but you answer not; And in the night season, and am
not silent.
3
But you are holy, O you that inhabit the praises of Israel.
4
Our fathers trusted in you: They trusted, and you did deliver them.
5
They cried to you, and were delivered: They trusted in you, and were not put to shame.
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
Commit [yourself] to YHWH; Let him deliver him: Let him rescue him, seeing he delights
in him.
9
But you are he who took me out of the womb; You did make me trust [when I was] upon
my mother`s breasts.
10
I was cast upon you from the womb; You are my God since my mother bare me.
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 gape upon me with their mouth, [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 within me.
15
My strength is dried up like a potsherd; And my tongue cleaves to my jaws; And you
have brought me into the dust of death.
16
For dogs have compassed me: A company of evil-doers have enclosed me; They pierced
my hands and my feet.
17
I may count all my bones; They look and stare upon me.
18
They part my garments among them, And upon my vesture do they cast lots.
19
But be not you far off, O YHWH: O you my succor, haste you 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; Yea, from the horns of the wild-oxen you have answered
me.
22
I will declare your name to my brethren: In the midst of the assembly will I praise
you.
23
You that fear YHWH, praise him; All you the seed of Jacob, glorify him; And stand
in awe of him, all you the seed of Israel.
24
For he has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; Neither
has he hid his face from him; But when he cried to him, he heard.
25
Of you comes my praise in the great assembly: I will pay my vows before them that
fear him.
26
The meek shall eat and be satisfied; They shall praise YHWH that seek after him: Let
your heart live for ever.
27
All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to YHWH; And all the kindreds
of the nations shall worship before you.
28
For the kingdom is YHWH`s; And he is the ruler over the nations.
29
All the fat ones of the earth shall eat and worship: All they that go down to the
dust shall bow before him, Even he who cannot keep his soul alive.
30
A seed shall serve him; It shall be told of the Lord to the [next] generation.
31
They shall come and shall declare his righteousness To a people that shall be born,
that he has done it.