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Psalm 22
To the
chief Musician upon Aijeleth Shahar, A Psalm of
David.
1 My God,
my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Why art thou so
far from helping me, and from the words of my
roaring?
2 O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest
not; and in the night season, and am not silent.
3 But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the
praises of Israel.
4 Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and
thou didst deliver them.
5 They cried unto thee, and were delivered: they
trusted in thee, and were not confounded.
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 He trusted on the Lord that he would deliver him:
let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.
9 But thou art he that took me out of the womb: thou
didst make me hope when I was 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 compassed me: strong bulls of
Bashan have beset me round.
13 They gaped upon me with their mouths, 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 in
the midst of my bowels.
15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my
tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me
into the dust of death.
16 For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the
wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and
my feet.
17 I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon
me.
18 They part my garments among them, and cast lots
upon my vesture.
19 But be not thou far from me, O Lord: O my
strength, haste thee 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: for thou hast
heard me from the horns of the unicorns.
22 I will declare thy name unto my brethren: in the
midst of the congregation will I praise thee.
23 Ye that fear the Lord, praise him; all ye the
seed of Jacob, glorify him; and fear 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 shall be of 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 the Lord that seek him: your heart shall live
for ever.
27 All the ends of the world shall remember and turn
unto the Lord: and all the kindreds of the nations
shall worship before thee.
28 For the kingdom is the Lord'S: and he is the
governor among the nations.
29 All they that be fat upon earth shall eat and
worship: all they that go down to the dust shall bow
before him: and none can 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 this.
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Psalm 22
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