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.