Ps 22
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For the end, concerning the morning aid, a Psalm of David. - Mt 27:46 O God, my God, attend to me: why have you forsaken me?
the account of my transgressions
is far from my salvation.
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O my God, I will cry to you by day, but you will not hear: and by night, and it shall
not be accounted for folly to me.
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But you, the praise of Israel, dwell in a sanctuary.
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Our fathers hoped in you; they hoped, and you did deliver them.
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They cried to you, and were saved: they hoped in you, and were not ashamed.
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But I am a worm, and not a man; a reproach of men, and scorn of the people.
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All that saw me mocked me: they spoke with their lips, they shook the head, saying,
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He hoped in the Lord: let him deliver him, let him save him, because he takes pleasure
in him.
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For you are he who drew me out of the womb; my hope from my mother’s breasts.
10
I was cast on you from the womb: you are my God from my mother’s belly.
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Stand not aloof from me; for affliction is near; for there is no helper.
12
Many Gr. calves bullocks have compassed me: fat bulls have beset me round.
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They have opened their mouth against me, as a ravening and roaring lion.
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I am poured out like water, and all my bones are loosened: my heart in the midst of
my belly is become like melting wax.
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My strength is dried up, like a potsherd; and my tongue is glued to my throat; and
you have brought me down to the dust of death.
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For many dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked doers has beset me round:
they pierced my hands and my feet.
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They counted all my bones; and they observed and looked upon me.
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Mt 27:35 They parted my garments among themselves, and cast lots upon my raiment.
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But you, O Lord, remove not my help afar off: be ready for mine aid.
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Deliver my soul from the sword; my only-engendered one from the power of the dog.
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Save me from the lion’s mouth; and regard my See Hebrew lowliness from the horns of the unicorns.
22
I will declare your name to my brethren: in the midst of the church will I sing praise
to you.
23
You that fear the Lord, praise him; all you seed of Jacob, glorify him: let all the
seed of Israel fear him.
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For he has not despised nor been angry at the supplication of the poor; nor turned
away his face from me; but when I cried to him, he heard me.
25
My praise is of you in the great congregation: I will pay my vows before them that
fear him.
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The poor shall eat and be satisfied; and they shall praise the Lord that seek him:
their heart shall live for ever.
27
All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to the Lord: and all the kindreds
of the nations shall worship before him.
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For the kingdom is the Lord’s; and he is the governor of the nations.
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All the fat ones of the earth have eaten and worshiped: all that go down to the earth
shall fall down before him: my soul also lives to him.
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And my seed shall serve him: the generation that is coming shall be reported to the
Lord.
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And they shall report his righteousness to the people that shall be born, whom the
Lord has made.