Psalms - Chapter 22 | English Standard Version

  • 1. To the choirmaster: according to The Doe of the Dawn. A Psalm of David. My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, from the words of my groaning?
  • 2. O my God, I cry by day, but you do not answer, and by night, but I find no rest.
  • 3. Yet you are holy, enthroned on the praises of Israel.
  • 4. In you our fathers trusted; they trusted, and you delivered them.
  • 5. To you they cried and were rescued; in you they trusted and were not put to shame.
  • 6. But I am a worm and not a man, scorned by mankind and despised by the people.
  • 7. All who see me mock me; they make mouths at me; they wag their heads;
  • 8. "He trusts in the LORD; let him deliver him; let him rescue him, for he delights in him!"
  • 9. Yet you are he who took me from the womb; you made me trust you at my mother's breasts.
  • 10. On you was I cast from my birth, and from my mother's womb you have been my God.
  • 11. Be not far from me, for trouble is near, and there is none to help.
  • 12. Many bulls encompass me; strong bulls of Bashan surround me;
  • 13. they open wide their mouths at me, like a ravening and 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 my breast;
  • 15. my strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to my jaws; you lay me in the dust of death.
  • 16. For dogs encompass me; a company of evildoers encircles me; they have pierced my hands and feet--
  • 17. I can count all my bones-- they stare and gloat over me;
  • 18. they divide my garments among them, and for my clothing they cast lots.
  • 19. But you, O LORD, do not be far off! O you my help, come quickly to my aid!
  • 20. Deliver my soul from the sword, my precious life from the power of the dog!
  • 21. Save me from the mouth of the lion! You have rescued me from the horns of the wild oxen!
  • 22. I will tell of your name to my brothers; in the midst of the congregation I will praise you:
  • 23. You who fear the LORD, praise him! All you offspring of Jacob, glorify him, and stand in awe of him, all you offspring of Israel!
  • 24. For he has not despised or abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, and he has not hidden his face from him, but has heard, when he cried to him.
  • 25. From you comes my praise in the great congregation; my vows I will perform before those who fear him.
  • 26. The afflicted shall eat and be satisfied; those who seek him shall praise the LORD! May your hearts live forever!
  • 27. All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to the LORD, and all the families of the nations shall worship before you.
  • 28. For kingship belongs to the LORD, and he rules over the nations.
  • 29. All the prosperous of the earth eat and worship; before him shall bow all who go down to the dust, even the one who could not keep himself alive.
  • 30. Posterity shall serve him; it shall be told of the Lord to the coming generation;
  • 31. they shall come and proclaim his righteousness to a people yet unborn, that he has done it.
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