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 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.
2 O my God, I crie by day, but thou hearest not, and by night, but haue no audience.
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.
3 But thou art holy, and doest inhabite the prayses of Israel.
But thou dwellest in the holy place, the praise of Israel.
4 Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didest deliuer them.
In thee have our fathers hoped: they have hoped, and thou hast delivered them.
5 They called vpon thee, and were deliuered: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded.
They cried to thee, and they were saved: they trusted in thee, 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 no man: the reproach of men, and the outcast of the people.
7 All they that see me, haue me in derision: they make a mowe and nod the head, saying,
All they that saw me have laughed me to scorn: they have spoken with the lips, and wagged the head.
8 He trusted in the Lord, let him deliuer him: let him saue him, seeing he loueth him.
He hoped in the Lord, let him deliver him: let him save him, seeing he delighteth in him.
9 But thou didest draw me out of ye wombe: thou gauest me hope, euen at my mothers breasts.
For thou art he that hast 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 was cast upon thee from the womb. From my mother’s womb thou art my God,
11 Be not farre from me, because trouble is neere: for there is none to helpe me.
Depart not from me. For tribulation is very near: for there is none to 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 against me, as a lion ravening 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.
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.
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 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.
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 encompassed me: the council of the malignant hath besieged me. They have dug 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 looked and stared upon me.
18 They part my garments among them, and cast lottes vpon my vesture.
They parted my garments amongst them; and upon my vesture they cast lots.
19 But be thou not farre off, O Lord, my strength: hasten to helpe me.
But thou, O Lord, remove not thy help to a distance from me; look towards my defence.
20 Deliuer my soule from the sword: my desolate soule from the power of the dogge.
Deliver, O God, my soul from the sword: 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 lion’s mouth; and my lowness from the horns of the unicorns.
22 I wil declare thy Name vnto my brethren: in the middes of the Congregation will I praise thee, saying,
I will declare thy name to my brethren: in the midst of the church will I praise thee.
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.
Ye that fear the Lord, praise him: all ye the seed 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.
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.
25 My prayse shalbe of thee in the great Congregation: my vowes will I perfourme before them that feare him.
With thee is my praise in a great church: I will pay my vows in the sight of them that 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 shall eat and shall be filled: and they shall praise the Lord that seek him: their hearts shall live for ever 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 shall remember, and shall be converted to the Lord: And all the kindreds of the Gentiles shall adore in his sight.
28 For the kingdome is the Lords, and he ruleth among the nations.
For the kingdom is the Lord’s; and he shall have dominion over the nations.
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 ones of the earth have eaten and have adored: all they that go down to the earth shall fall before him.
30 Their seede shall serue him: it shalbe counted vnto the Lord for a generation.
And to him my soul shall live: and my seed shall serve him.
31 They shall come, and shall declare his righteousnesse vnto a people that shall be borne, because he hath done it.
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.
