Psalm 22 Deus, Deus meus.
MY God, my God, look upon me; why hast thou forsaken me? * and art so far from my health, and from the words of my complaint?
2O my God, I cry in the day-time, but thou hearest not; * and in the night season also I take no rest.
3And thou continuest holy, * O thou Worship of Israel.
4Our fathers hoped in thee; * they trusted in thee, and thou didst deliver them.
5They called upon thee, and were holpen; * they put their trust in thee, and were not confounded.
6But as for me, I am a worm, and no man; * a very scorn of men, and the outcast of the people.
7All they that see me laugh me to scorn; * they shoot out their lips, and shake their heads, saying,
8He trusted in the LORD, that he would deliver him; * let him deliver him, if he will have him.
9But thou art he that took me out of my mother's womb; * thou wast my hope, when I hanged yet upon my mother’s breasts.
10I have been left unto thee ever since I was born; * thou art my God even from my mother's womb.
11O go not from me; for trouble is hard at hand, * and there is none to help me.
12Many oxen are come about me; * fat bulls of Bashan close me in on every side.
13They gape upon me with their mouths, * as it were a ramping and a roaring lion.
14I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint; * my heart also in the midst of my body is even like melting wax.
15My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue cleaveth to my gums, * and thou bringest me into the dust of death.
16For many dogs are come about me; * and the council of the wicked layeth siege against me.
17They pierced my hands and my feet: I may tell all my bones: * they stand staring and looking upon me.
18They part my garments among them, * and cast lots upon my vesture.
19But be not thou far from me, O LORD; * thou art my succour, haste thee to help me.
20Deliver my soul from the sword, * my darling from the power of the dog.
21Save me from the lion's mouth; * thou hast heard me also from among the horns of the unicorns.
22I will declare thy Name unto my brethren; * in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee.
23O praise the LORD, ye that fear him: * magnify him, all ye of the seed of Jacob; and fear him, all ye seed of Israel.
24For he hath not despised nor abhorred the low estate of the poor; * he hath not hid his face from him; but when he called unto him he heard him.
25My praise is of thee in the great congregation; * my vows will I perform in the sight of them that fear him.
26The poor shall eat, and be satisfied; they that seek after the LORD shall praise him: * your heart shall live for ever.
27All the ends of the world shall remember themselves, and be turned unto the LORD; * and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before him.
28For the kingdom is the LORD’S, * and he is the Governor among the nations.
29All such as be fat upon earth * have eaten, and worshipped.
30All they that go down into the dust shall kneel before him; * and no man hath quickened his own soul.
31My seed shall serve him: * they shall be counted unto the Lord for a generation.
32They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness * unto a people that shall be born, whom the Lord hath made.