Psalm 22; ASV
1 My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? (Why art thou so) far from helping me, (and from) the words of my groaning?
2 O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou answerest 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 put to shame.
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 Commit (thyself) unto Jehovah; let him deliver him: let him rescue him, seeing he delighteth in
him.
9 But thou art he that took me out of the womb; Thou didst make me trust (when I was) upon my
mother's breasts.
10 I was cast upon thee from the womb; Thou art my God since my mother bare me.
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 gape upon me with their mouth, (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
within me.
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: a company of evil-doers have inclosed me; they pierced my hands
and my feet.
17 I may count all my bones; they look and stare upon me.
18 They part my garments among them, and upon my vesture do they cast lots.
19 But be not thou far off, O Jehovah: O thou my succor, 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; yea, from the horns of the wild-oxen thou hast answered me.
22 I will declare thy name unto my brethren: in the midst of the assembly will I praise thee.
23 Ye that fear Jehovah, praise him; all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him; and stand in awe of 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 Of thee cometh my praise in the great assembly: I will pay my vows before them that fear him.
26 The meek shall eat and be satisfied; they shall praise Jehovah that seek after him: let your heart
live for ever.
27 All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn unto Jehovah; and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee.
28 For the kingdom is Jehovah's; and he is the ruler over the nations.
29 All the fat ones of the earth shall eat and worship: all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him, even he that cannot keep his soul alive.
30 A seed shall serve him; it shall be told of the Lord unto the (next) generation.
31 They shall come and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that he hath done it.
