Psalm
Chapter 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] far from my salvation, from the words of my groaning?
2. My God, I cry by day, and thou answerest not; and by night, and there is no rest for me:
3. And thou art holy, thou that dwellest amid the praises of Israel.
4. Our fathers confided in thee: they confided, and thou didst deliver them.
5. They cried unto thee, and were delivered; they confided in thee, and were not confounded.
6. But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and the 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 it to Jehovah -- let him rescue him; let him deliver him, because he delighteth in him!
9. But thou art he that took me out of the womb; thou didst make me trust, 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 encompassed me; Bashan's strong ones 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 become 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 palate; and thou hast laid me in the dust of death.
16. For dogs have encompassed me; an assembly of evil-doers have surrounded me: they pierced my hands and my feet.
17. I may count all my bones. They look, they stare upon me;
18. They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.
19. But thou, Jehovah, be not far [from me]; O my strength, haste thee to help me.
20. Deliver my soul from the sword; my only one from the power of the dog;
21. Save me from the lion's mouth. Yea, from the horns of the buffaloes hast thou answered me.
22. I will declare thy name unto my brethren, in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee.
23. Ye that fear Jehovah, praise him; all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him; and revere 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 is from 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 Jehovah that seek him: your heart shall live for ever.
27. All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn unto Jehovah, and all the families of the nations shall worship before thee:
28. For the kingdom is Jehovah's, and he ruleth among 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, and he that cannot 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 [it].