Psa 22:1-10 | HCSB | STEP | For the choir director : according to “The Deer of the Dawn .” A Davidic psalm . My God , my God , why have You forsaken me? Why are You so far from my deliverance and from my words of groaning ?

Psalms 22:1-10

1 For the choir director: according to “The Deer of the Dawn.” ^{▼▼Perhaps a musical term} A Davidic psalm.

My God, my God, why have You forsaken me? ^b
Why are You so far from my deliverance ^c
and from my words of groaning? ^{▼▼Or My words of groaning are so far from delivering me
,} ^e
2 My God, I cry by day, but You do not answer,
by night, yet I have no rest. ^f
3 But You are holy,
enthroned on the praises of Israel. ^g
4 Our fathers trusted in You;
they trusted, and You rescued them. ^h
5 They cried to You and were set free;
they trusted in You and were not disgraced. ⁱ

6 But I am a worm and not a man, ^j
scorned by men and despised by people. ^k
7 Everyone who sees me mocks me;
they sneer ^{▼▼Lit separate with the lip} and shake their heads: ^m
8 “He relies on ^{▼▼Or Rely on} the Lord;
let Him rescue him;
let the Lord ^{▼▼Lit let Him} deliver him,
since He takes pleasure in him.” ^p

9 You took me from the womb,
making me secure while at my mother’s breast. ^q
10 I was given over to You at birth; ^{▼▼Lit was cast on You from the womb}
You have been my God from my mother’s womb. ^s