Psalm 22
Psalm 22:1[1] My God, my God, why have you abandoned me? Why are you so far from my rescue and from my words of groaning?
Psalm 22:2 My God, I cry by day, but you do not answer, by night, and there is no quiet for me.
Psalm 22:3 But you are holy, enthroned on the praise songs of Israel.
Psalm 22:4 Our fathers trusted in you; they trusted, and you rescued them.
Psalm 22:5 They cried to you and were set free; they trusted in you and were not disgraced.
Psalm 22:6 But I am a worm and not a man, scorned by Adam and despised by people.
Psalm 22:7 Everyone who sees me ridicules me; they sneer and shake their heads:
Psalm 22:8 “He relies on Yahveh; let him save him; let Yahveh rescue him, since he treasures him.”
Psalm 22:9 It was you who brought me out of the uterus, making me secure at my mother’s breast.
Psalm 22:10 I was given over to you at birth; you have been my God from my mother’s uterus.
Psalm 22:11 Don’t be far from me, because distress is near and there’s no one to help.
Psalm 22:12 Many bulls surround me; strong ones of Bashan encircle me.
Psalm 22:13 They open their mouths against me – lions, mauling and roaring.
Psalm 22:14 I am poured out like water, and all my bones are disjointed; my heart is like wax, melting inside me.
Psalm 22:15 My strength is dried up like baked clay; my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You put me into the dust of death
Psalm 22:16 because dogs have surrounded me; a gang of evildoers has closed in on me; they pierced my hands and my feet.
Psalm 22:17 I can count all my bones; people gaze and stare at me.
Psalm 22:18 They divided my garments among themselves, and they gambled for my clothing.
Psalm 22:19 But you, Yahveh, don’t be far away. My strength, come quickly to help me.
Psalm 22:20 Rescue my throat from the sword, my abandoned throat from this dog’s hand.
Psalm 22:21 Save me from the lion’s mouth, from the horns of wild oxen. You answered me!
Psalm 22:22 I will proclaim your name to my brothers and sisters; I will praise you in the assembly.
Psalm 22:23 You who fear Yahveh, praise him! All you descendants of Jacob, glorify him! All you descendants of Israel, revere him!
Psalm 22:24 Because he has not despised or abhorred the torment of the oppressed. He did not hide his face from him but listened when he cried to him for help.
Psalm 22:25 I will give praise in the great assembly because of you; I will fulfill my vows before those who fear you.
Psalm 22:26 The humble will eat and be satisfied; those who seek Yahveh will praise him. May your hearts live continually!
Psalm 22:27 All the ends of the land will remember and turn to Yahveh. All the families of the nations will bow down before you,
Psalm 22:28 because kingship belongs to Yahveh; he rules the nations.
Psalm 22:29 All who prosper on land will eat and bow down; all those who go down to the dust will go to their knees before him – even the one who cannot preserve his neck.
Psalm 22:30 Their descendants will serve him; the next generation will be told about the master.
Psalm 22:31 They will come and declare his righteousness; to a people yet to be born they will declare what he has done.
[1]superscription: A Psalm of David.
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