Psalms 22:1
My God, my God, why have thou forsaken me, far from helping me, and the words of my groaning?
Psalms 22:2
O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou answer not, and in the night season, and I am not silent.
Psalms 22:3
But thou are holy, O thou who inhabit the praises of Israel.
Psalms 22:4
Our fathers trusted in thee. They trusted, and thou delivered them.
Psalms 22:5
They cried to thee, and were delivered. They trusted in thee, and were not put to shame.
Psalms 22:6
But I am a worm, and no man, a reproach of men, and despised by the people.
Psalms 22:7
All those who see me laugh me to scorn. They shoot out the lip. They shake the head, saying,
Psalms 22:8
He trusted on Jehovah. Let him deliver him. Let him rescue him, since he delights in him.
Psalms 22:9
But thou are he who took me out of the womb. Thou made me trust upon my mother's breasts.
Psalms 22:10
I was cast upon thee from the womb. Thou are my God since my mother bore me.
Psalms 22:11
Be not far from me, for trouble is near, for there is none to help.
Psalms 22:12
Many bulls have encompassed me. Strong bulls of Bashan have beset me around.
Psalms 22:13
They gape upon me with their mouth, as a ravening and a roaring lion.
Psalms 22:14
I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax; it is melted within me.
Psalms 22:15
My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue clings to my jaws, and thou have brought me into the dust of death.
Psalms 22:16
For dogs have encompassed me. A company of evildoers have enclosed me. They pierced my hands and my feet.
Psalms 22:17
I may count all my bones. They look and stare upon me.
Psalms 22:18
They part my garments among them, and upon my vesture do they cast a lot.
Psalms 22:19
But be thou not far off, O Jehovah. O thou my succor, hasten thee to help me.
Psalms 22:20
Deliver my soul from the sword, the only one of me from the power of the dog.
Psalms 22:21
Save me from the lion's mouth, yea, from the horns of the wild-oxen. Thou have answered me.
Psalms 22:22
I will declare thy name to my brothers. In the midst of the congregation I will praise thee.
Psalms 22:23
Ye who fear Jehovah, praise him. All ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him, and stand in awe of him, all ye the seed of Israel.
Psalms 22:24
For he has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, neither has he hid his face from him, but when he cried to him, he heard.
Psalms 22:25
From thee comes my praise in the great assembly. I will pay my vows before those who fear him.
Psalms 22:26
The meek shall eat and be satisfied. They shall praise Jehovah who seek after him. Let your heart live forever.
Psalms 22:27
All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to Jehovah, and all the kinfolk of the nations shall worship before thee.
Psalms 22:28
For the kingdom is Jehovah's, and he is the ruler over the nations.
Psalms 22:29
All the fat ones of the earth shall eat and worship. All those who go down to the dust shall bow before him, even he who cannot keep his soul alive.
Psalms 22:30
A seed shall serve him. It shall be told of the Lord to the next generation.
Psalms 22:31
They shall come and shall declare his righteousness to a people that shall be born, that he has done it.