Psalms 22:1-21

Why Have You Forsaken Me?

To the choirmaster: according to The Doe of the Dawn. A Psalm of David.

1 aMy God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
Why are you so bfar from saving me, from the words of my cgroaning?
2O my God, I cry by dday, but you do not answer,
and by night, but I find no rest.
3 Yet you are eholy,
fenthroned on gthe praises
Or dwelling in the praises
of Israel.
4In you our fathers trusted;
they trusted, and you delivered them.
5To you they icried and were rescued;
in you they jtrusted and were not put to shame.
6 But I am ka worm and not a man,
lscorned by mankind and mdespised by the people.
7All who see me nmock me;
they make mouths at me; they owag their heads;
8 p“He trusts in the Lord; let him qdeliver him;
let him rescue him, for he rdelights in him!”
9 Yet you are he who stook me from the womb;
you made me trust you at my mother’s breasts.
10On you was I cast from my birth,
and from tmy mother’s womb you have been my God.
11Be not ufar from me,
for trouble is near,
and there is vnone to help.
12 Many bulls encompass me;
wstrong bulls of xBashan surround me;
13they yopen wide their mouths at me,
like a ravening and roaring lion.
14 I am zpoured out like water,
and all my bones are aaout of joint;
my abheart is like acwax;
it is melted within my breast;
15my strength is addried up like a potsherd,
and my aetongue sticks to my jaws;
you lay me in the dust of death.
16 For afdogs encompass me;
a company of evildoers agencircles me;
they have ahpierced my hands and feet
Some Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint, Vulgate, Syriac; most Hebrew manuscripts like a lion [they are at] my hands and feet

17I can count all my bones
they ajstare and gloat over me;
18 akthey divide my garments among them,
and for my clothing they cast lots.
19 But you, O Lord, aldo not be far off!
O you my help, amcome quickly to my aid!
20Deliver my soul from the sword,
my precious life from the power of anthe dog!
21Save me from aothe mouth of the lion!
You have rescued
Hebrew answered
me from the horns of aqthe wild oxen!
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