PS-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 so] far from

helping me, [and

from] the words of my roaring?

PS-22:2 O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not;

and in the night

season, and am not silent.

PS-22:3 But thou [art] holy, [O thou] that inhabitest the

praises of Israel.

PS-22:4 Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou

didst deliver

them.

PS-22:5 They cried unto thee, and were delivered: they trusted

in thee, and

were not confounded.

PS-22:6 But I [am] a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and

despised of the

people.

PS-22:7 All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out

the lip, they

shake the head, [saying],

PS-22:8 He trusted on the LORD [that] he would deliver him: let

him deliver

him, seeing he delighted in him.

PS-22:9 But thou [art] he that took me out of the womb: thou

didst make me

hope [when I was] upon my mother's breasts.

PS-22:10 I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou [art] my God

from my

mother's belly.

PS-22:11 Be not far from me; for trouble [is] near; for [there

is] none to

help.

PS-22:12 Many bulls have compassed me: strong [bulls] of Bashan

have beset me

round.

PS-22:13 They gaped upon me [with] their mouths, [as] a ravening

and a roaring

lion.

PS-22:14 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.

PS-22:15 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.

PS-22:16 For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked

have enclosed

me: they pierced my hands and my feet.

PS-22:17 I may tell all my bones: they look [and] stare upon me.

PS-22:18 They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my

vesture.

PS-22:19 But be not thou far from me, O LORD: O my strength,

haste thee to

help me.

PS-22:20 Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the

power of the dog.

PS-22:21 Save me from the lion's mouth: for thou hast heard me

from the horns

of the unicorns.

PS-22:22 I will declare thy name unto my brethren: in the midst

of the

congregation will I praise thee.

PS-22:23 Ye that fear the LORD, praise him; all ye the seed of

Jacob, glorify

him; and fear him, all ye the seed of Israel.

PS-22:24 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.

PS-22:25 My praise [shall be] of thee in the great congregation:

I will pay my

vows before them that fear him.

PS-22:26 The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise

the LORD that

seek him: your heart shall live for ever.

PS-22:27 All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto

the LORD: and

all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee.

PS-22:28 For the kingdom [is] the LORD'S: and he [is] the

governor among the

nations.

PS-22:29 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.

PS-22:30 A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the

Lord for a

generation.

PS-22:31 They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness

unto a people

that shall be born, that he hath done [this].

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