Psalms 22
1 To him that excelleth upon Aiieleth Hasshahar. A Psalme of Dauid. My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me, and art so farre from mine health, and from the wordes of my roaring?
Unto the end. For the tasks of early morning. A Psalm of David. O God, my God, look upon me. Why have you forsaken me? Far from my salvation are the words of my offenses.
2 O my God, I crie by day, but thou hearest not, and by night, but haue no audience.
My God, I will cry out by day, and you will not heed, and by night, and it will not be foolishness for me.
3 But thou art holy, and doest inhabite the prayses of Israel.
But you dwell in holiness, O Praise of Israel.
4 Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didest deliuer them.
In you, our fathers have hoped. They hoped, and you freed them.
5 They called vpon thee, and were deliuered: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded.
They cried out to you, and they were saved. In you, they hoped and were not confounded.
6 But I am a worme, and not a man: a shame of men, and the contempt of the people.
But I am a worm and not a man: a disgrace among men, and an outcast of the people.
7 All they that see me, haue me in derision: they make a mowe and nod the head, saying,
All those who saw me have derided me. They have spoken with the lips and shook the head.
8 He trusted in the Lord, let him deliuer him: let him saue him, seeing he loueth him.
He has hoped in the Lord, let him rescue him. Let him save him because he chooses him.
9 But thou didest draw me out of ye wombe: thou gauest me hope, euen at my mothers breasts.
For you are the one who has drawn me out of the womb, my hope from the breasts of my mother.
10 I was cast vpon thee, euen from ye wombe: thou art my God from my mothers belly.
I have been thrown upon you from the womb; from the womb of my mother, you are my God.
11 Be not farre from me, because trouble is neere: for there is none to helpe me.
Do not depart from me. For tribulation is near, since there is no one who may help me.
12 Many yong bulles haue compassed me: mightie bulles of Bashan haue closed me about.
Many calves have surrounded me; fat bulls have besieged me.
13 They gape vpon me with their mouthes, as a ramping and roaring lyon.
They have opened their mouths over me, just like a lion seizing and roaring.
14 I am like water powred out, and all my bones are out of ioynt: mine heart is like waxe: it is molten in the middes of my bowels.
And so, I have been poured out like water, and all my bones have been scattered. My heart has become like wax, melting in the midst of my chest.
15 My strength is dryed vp like a potsheard, and my tongue cleaueth to my iawes, and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.
My strength has dried up like clay, and my tongue has adhered to my jaws. And you have pulled me down, into the dust of death.
16 For dogges haue compassed me, and the assemblie of the wicked haue inclosed me: they perced mine hands and my feete.
For many dogs have surrounded me. The council of the malicious has besieged me. They have pierced my hands and feet.
17 I may tell all my bones: yet they beholde, and looke vpon me.
They have numbered all my bones. And they have examined me and stared at me.
18 They part my garments among them, and cast lottes vpon my vesture.
They divided my garments among them, and over my vestment, they cast lots.
19 But be thou not farre off, O Lord, my strength: hasten to helpe me.
But you, O Lord, do not take your help far from me; be attentive to my defense.
20 Deliuer my soule from the sword: my desolate soule from the power of the dogge.
O God, rescue my soul from the spear, and my only one from the hand of the dog.
21 Saue me from the lyons mouth, and answere me in sauing me from the hornes of the vnicornes.
Save me from the mouth of the lion, and my humility from the horns of the single-horned beast.
22 I wil declare thy Name vnto my brethren: in the middes of the Congregation will I praise thee, saying,
I will declare your name to my brothers. In the midst of the Church, I will praise you.
23 Prayse the Lord, ye that feare him: magnifie ye him, all the seede of Iaakob, and feare ye him, all the seede of Israel.
You who fear the Lord, praise him. All the offspring of Jacob, glorify him.
24 For he hath not despised nor abhorred ye affliction of the poore: neither hath he hid his face from him, but when he called vnto him, he heard.
May all the offspring of Israel fear him. For he has neither spurned nor despised the pleas of the poor. Neither has he turned his face away from me. And when I cried out to him, he heeded me.
25 My prayse shalbe of thee in the great Congregation: my vowes will I perfourme before them that feare him.
My praise is with you, within a great church. I will pay my vows in the sight of those who fear him.
26 The poore shall eate and be satisfied: they that seeke after the Lord, shall prayse him: your heart shall liue for euer.
The poor will eat and be satisfied, and those who yearn for the Lord will praise him. Their hearts will live forever and ever.
27 All the endes of the worlde shall remember themselues, and turne to the Lord: and all the kinreds of the nations shall worship before thee.
All the ends of the earth will remember, and they will be converted to the Lord. And all the families of the Gentiles will adore in his sight.
28 For the kingdome is the Lords, and he ruleth among the nations.
For the kingdom belongs to the Lord, and he will have dominion over the Gentiles.
29 All they that be fat in the earth, shall eate and worship: all they that go downe into the dust, shall bowe before him, euen he that cannot quicken his owne soule.
All the fat of the earth have gnashed their teeth, and they have adored. In his sight, they will fall down, all those who descend to the ground.
30 Their seede shall serue him: it shalbe counted vnto the Lord for a generation.
And my soul will live for him, and my offspring will serve him.
31 They shall come, and shall declare his righteousnesse vnto a people that shall be borne, because he hath done it.
There will be announced for the Lord a future generation, and the heavens will announce his justice to a people who will be born, whom the Lord has made.
