Psalms 22
1 To ouercome, for `the morewtid hynd; the salm of Dauid. God, my God, biholde thou on me, whi hast thou forsake me? the wordis of my trespassis ben fer fro myn helthe.
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?
2 Mi God, Y schal crye bi dai, and thou schalt not here; and bi nyyt, and not to vnwisdom to me.
O my God, I crie by day, but thou hearest not, and by night, but haue no audience.
3 Forsothe thou, the preisyng of Israel, dwellist in holynesse;
But thou art holy, and doest inhabite the prayses of Israel.
4 oure fadris hopiden in thee, thei hopiden, and thou delyueridist hem.
Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didest deliuer them.
5 Thei crieden to thee, and thei weren maad saaf; thei hopiden in thee, and thei weren not schent.
They called vpon thee, and were deliuered: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded.
6 But Y am a worm, and not man; the schenschip of men, and the outcastyng of the puple.
But I am a worme, and not a man: a shame of men, and the contempt of the people.
7 Alle men seynge me scorneden me; thei spaken with lippis, and stiriden the heed.
All they that see me, haue me in derision: they make a mowe and nod the head, saying,
8 He hopide in the Lord, delyuere he hym; make he hym saaf, for he wole hym.
He trusted in the Lord, let him deliuer him: let him saue him, seeing he loueth him.
9 For thou it art that drowist me out of the wombe, thou art myn hope fro the tetis of my modir;
But thou didest draw me out of ye wombe: thou gauest me hope, euen at my mothers breasts.
10 in to thee Y am cast forth fro the wombe. Fro the wombe of my modir thou art my God; departe thou not fro me.
I was cast vpon thee, euen from ye wombe: thou art my God from my mothers belly.
11 For tribulacioun is next; for noon is that helpith.
Be not farre from me, because trouble is neere: for there is none to helpe me.
12 Many calues cumpassiden me; fatte bolis bisegiden me.
Many yong bulles haue compassed me: mightie bulles of Bashan haue closed me about.
13 Thei openyden her mouth on me; as doith a lioun rauyschynge and rorynge.
They gape vpon me with their mouthes, as a ramping and roaring lyon.
14 I am sched out as watir; and alle my boonys ben scaterid. Myn herte is maad, as wex fletynge abrood; in the myddis of my wombe.
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.
15 Mi vertu driede as a tiyl stoon, and my tunge cleuede to my chekis; and thou hast brouyt forth me in to the dust of deth.
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.
16 For many doggis cumpassiden me; the counsel of wickid men bisegide me. Thei delueden myn hondis and my feet;
For dogges haue compassed me, and the assemblie of the wicked haue inclosed me: they perced mine hands and my feete.
17 thei noumbriden alle my boonys. Sotheli thei lokiden, and bihelden me;
I may tell all my bones: yet they beholde, and looke vpon me.
18 thei departiden my clothis to hem silf, and thei senten lot on my cloth.
They part my garments among them, and cast lottes vpon my vesture.
19 But thou, Lord, delaie not thin help fro me; biholde thou to my defence.
But be thou not farre off, O Lord, my strength: hasten to helpe me.
20 God, delyuere thou my lijf fro swerd; and delyuere thou myn oon aloone fro the hond of the dogge.
Deliuer my soule from the sword: my desolate soule from the power of the dogge.
21 Make thou me saaf fro the mouth of a lioun; and my mekenesse fro the hornes of vnycornes.
Saue me from the lyons mouth, and answere me in sauing me from the hornes of the vnicornes.
22 I schal telle thi name to my britheren; Y schal preise thee in the myddis of the chirche.
I wil declare thy Name vnto my brethren: in the middes of the Congregation will I praise thee, saying,
23 Ye that dreden the Lord, herie hym; alle the seed of Jacob, glorifie ye hym.
Prayse the Lord, ye that feare him: magnifie ye him, all the seede of Iaakob, and feare ye him, all the seede of Israel.
24 Al the seed of Israel drede hym; for he forsook not, nethir dispiside the preier of a pore man. Nethir he turnede awei his face fro me; and whanne Y criede to hym, he herde me.
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.
25 Mi preisyng is at thee in a greet chirche; Y schal yelde my vowis in the siyt of men dredynge hym.
My prayse shalbe of thee in the great Congregation: my vowes will I perfourme before them that feare him.
26 Pore men schulen ete, and schulen be fillid, and thei schulen herie the Lord, that seken hym; the hertis of hem schulen lyue in to the world of world.
The poore shall eate and be satisfied: they that seeke after the Lord, shall prayse him: your heart shall liue for euer.
27 Alle the endis of erthe schulen bithenke; and schulen be conuertid to the Lord. And alle the meynees of hethene men; schulen worschipe in his siyt.
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.
28 For the rewme is the Lordis; and he schal be Lord of hethene men.
For the kingdome is the Lords, and he ruleth among the nations.
29 Alle the fatte men of erthe eeten and worschipiden; alle men, that goen doun in to erthe, schulen falle doun in his siyt.
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.
30 And my soule schal lyue to hym; and my seed schal serue him.
Their seede shall serue him: it shalbe counted vnto the Lord for a generation.
31 A generacioun to comyng schal be teld to the Lord; and heuenes schulen telle his riytfulnesse to the puple that schal be borun, whom the Lord made.
They shall come, and shall declare his righteousnesse vnto a people that shall be borne, because he hath done it.
