Psalms 22
1 Unto the end, for the morning protection, a psalm for David. O God my God, look upon me: why hast thou forsaken me? Far from my salvation are the words of my sins.
To the Chief Musician. On "the Hind of the Dawn." A Melody of David. My GOD, my GOD, why hast thou forsaken me? Far from saving me, The words of my loud lamentation?
2 O my God, I shall cry by day, and thou wilt not hear: and by night, and it shall not be reputed as folly in me.
My God! I keep crying—By day, and thou dost not answer, and, By night, and there is no rest for me.
3 But thou dwellest in the holy place, the praise of Israel.
But, thou, art holy, Who inhabitest the praises of Israel.
4 In thee have our fathers hoped: they have hoped, and thou hast delivered them.
In thee, trusted our fathers, They trusted, and thou didst deliver them;
5 They cried to thee, and they were saved: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded.
Unto thee, made they outcry, and escaped, In thee, they trusted, and had not turned pale.
6 But I am a worm, and no man: the reproach of men, and the outcast of the people.
But, I, am a worm and no one, a reproach of men, and despised of a people;
7 All they that saw me have laughed me to scorn: they have spoken with the lips, and wagged the head.
All that see me, laugh at me, —They open wide the mouth, They shake the head: —
8 He hoped in the Lord, let him deliver him: let him save him, seeing he delighteth in him.
He should trust in Yahweh—let him deliver him, —Let him rescue him, seeing he delighteth in him.
9 For thou art he that hast drawn me out of the womb: my hope from the breasts of my mother.
For, thou, art he that severed me from the womb, he that caused me to trust, upon the breasts of my mother;
10 I was cast upon thee from the womb. From my mother’s womb thou art my God,
Upon thee, was I cast from the time I was born, From the womb of my mother, my GOD, hast thou been.
11 Depart not from me. For tribulation is very near: for there is none to help me.
Be not far from me, for, distress, is near, For there is none to help.
12 Many calves have surrounded me: fat bulls have besieged me.
Many bulls have surrounded me, Strong oxen of Bashan, have enclosed me;
13 They have opened their mouths against me, as a lion ravening and roaring.
They have opened wide against me their mouth, A lion rending and roaring.
14 I am poured out like water; and all my bones are scattered. My heart is become like wax melting in the midst of my bowels.
Like water, am I poured out, and, put out of joint, are all my bones, —My heart, hath become, like wax, it is melted in the midst of my body;
15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue hath cleaved to my jaws: and thou hast brought me down into the dust of death.
Dried as a potsherd, is my strength, And, my tongue, is made to cleave to my gums, And, in the dust of death, wilt thou lay me.
16 For many dogs have encompassed me: the council of the malignant hath besieged me. They have dug my hands and feet.
For dogs have surrounded me, —An assembly of evil doers, have encircled me, They have pierced my hands and my feet,
17 They have numbered all my bones. And they have looked and stared upon me.
I may tell all my bones, They, look for—they behold me!
18 They parted my garments amongst them; and upon my vesture they cast lots.
They part my garments among them, and, for my vestment, they cast lots.
19 But thou, O Lord, remove not thy help to a distance from me; look towards my defence.
But, thou, O Yahweh, be not far off, O my help! to aid me, make haste;
20 Deliver, O God, my soul from the sword: my only one from the hand of the dog.
Rescue, from the sword, my life, from the power of the dog, my solitary self:
21 Save me from the lion’s mouth; and my lowness from the horns of the unicorns.
Save me from the mouth of the lion, —Yea, from the horns of wild beasts, hast thou delivered me.
22 I will declare thy name to my brethren: in the midst of the church will I praise thee.
I will declare thy Name unto my brethren, —In the midst of the convocation, will I praise thee.
23 Ye that fear the Lord, praise him: all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him.
Ye that revere Yahweh, praise him, All ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him, And, stand in awe of him, all ye seed of Israel.
24 Let all the seed of Israel fear him: because he hath not slighted nor despised the supplication of the poor man. Neither hath he turned away his face from me: and when I cried to him he heard me.
For he hath not despised nor abhorred the humbling of the patient one, neither hath he hid his face from him, but, when he cried for help unto him, he heard.
25 With thee is my praise in a great church: I will pay my vows in the sight of them that fear him.
Of thee, is my praise in the great convocation, My vows, will I pay, before them who revere him.
26 The poor shall eat and shall be filled: and they shall praise the Lord that seek him: their hearts shall live for ever and ever.
The patient wronged-ones shall eat and be satisfied, They shall praise Yahweh, who are seekers of him, Let your heart live for aye.
27 All the ends of the earth shall remember, and shall be converted to the Lord: And all the kindreds of the Gentiles shall adore in his sight.
All the ends of the earth, will remember and turn to Yahweh, Yea all the families of the nations, will bow themselves down before thee,
28 For the kingdom is the Lord’s; and he shall have dominion over the nations.
For, to Yahweh, belongeth the kingdom, And One to Rule over the nations.
29 All the fat ones of the earth have eaten and have adored: all they that go down to the earth shall fall before him.
All the great ones of the earth, shall eat and bow down, Before him shall kneel, all that go down to the dust, Even he who had not kept alive, his own soul!
30 And to him my soul shall live: and my seed shall serve him.
My seed, shall serve him, It shall be recounted, of the Lord, to a generation that shall come:
31 There shall be declared to the Lord a generation to come: and the heavens shall shew forth his justice to a people that shall be born, which the Lord hath made.
That his righteousness may be declared to a people to be born, That he wrought with effect!
