Psalms 22

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1. 1My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?
2. 2O my God, I cry in the daytime, but you do not hear; and in the night, and am not silent.
3. 3But you are holy, you who inhabit the praises of Israel.
4. 4Our fathers trusted in you; they trusted, and you delivered them.
5. 5They cried to you and were delivered; they trusted in you and were not put to shame.
6. 6But I am a worm and not a man; a reproach of men and despised by the people.
7. 7All who see me laugh me to scorn; they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,
8. 8"He trusted in the LORD that he would deliver him; let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him."
9. 9But you are he who took me out of the womb; you made me hope when I was upon my mother's breasts.
10. 10I was cast upon you from the womb; you are my God from my mother's belly.
11. 11Be not far from me, for trouble is near; for there is none to help.
12. 12Many bulls have surrounded me; strong bulls of Bashan have encircled me.
13. 13They gaped upon me with their mouths, like a ravening and roaring lion.
14. 14I 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.
15. 15My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue clings to my jaws; and you have brought me into the dust of death.
16. 16For dogs have surrounded me; the assembly of the wicked have enclosed me; they pierced my hands and my feet.
17. 17I may count all my bones; they look and stare upon me.
18. 18They divide my garments among them, and cast lots upon my clothing.
19. 19But be not far from me, O LORD; O my strength, hasten to help me.
20. 20Rescue my soul from the sword; save my precious life from the power of the dog.
21. 21Save me from the lion's mouth; for you have heard me from the horns of the unicorns.
22. 22I will declare your name to my brothers and sisters; in the midst of the congregation I will praise you.
23. 23You who fear the LORD, praise him; all you the seed of Jacob, glorify him; and fear him, all you the seed of Israel.
24. 24For he has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither has he hidden his face from him; but when he cried to him, he heard.
25. 25My praise shall be of you in the great congregation; I will pay my vows before those who fear him.
26. 26The meek shall eat and be satisfied; they shall praise the LORD who seek him; your heart shall live forever.
27. 27All the ends of the world shall remember and turn to the LORD, and all the families of the nations shall worship before you.
28. 28For the kingdom is the LORD's, and he is the governor among the nations.
29. 29All those who are fat upon earth shall eat and worship; all who go down to the dust shall bow before him, and none can keep alive his own soul.
30. 30A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation.
31. 31They shall come and shall declare his righteousness to a people that shall be born, that he has done this.