Psalms 22 / 150
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(Why Have You Forsaken Me?)To the choirmaster: according to The Doe of the Dawn. A Psalm of David.
My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
Why are you so far from saving me, from the words of my groaning?
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O my God, I cry by day, but you do not answer,
and by night, but I find no rest.
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Yet you are holy,
enthroned on the praises of Israel.
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In you our fathers trusted;
they trusted, and you delivered them.
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To you they cried and were rescued;
in you they trusted and were not put to shame.
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But I am a worm and not a man,
scorned by mankind and despised by the people.
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All who see me mock me;
they make mouths at me; they wag their heads;
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"He trusts in the Lord; let him deliver him;
let him rescue him, for he delights in him!"
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Yet you are he who took me from the womb;
you made me trust you at my mother's breasts.
- 10
On you was I cast from my birth,
and from my mother's womb you have been my God.
- 11
Be not far from me,
for trouble is near,
and there is none to help.
- 12
Many bulls encompass me;
strong bulls of Bashan surround me;
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they open wide their mouths at me,
like a ravening and roaring lion.
- 14
I am poured out like water,
and all my bones are out of joint;
my heart is like wax;
it is melted within my breast;
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my strength is dried up like a potsherd,
and my tongue sticks to my jaws;
you lay me in the dust of death.
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For dogs encompass me;
a company of evildoers encircles me;
they have pierced my hands and feet--
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I can count all my bones--
they stare and gloat over me;
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they divide my garments among them,
and for my clothing they cast lots.
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But you, O Lord, do not be far off!
O you my help, come quickly to my aid!
- 20
Deliver my soul from the sword,
my precious life from the power of the dog!
- 21
Save me from the mouth of the lion!
You have rescued me from the horns of the wild oxen!
- 22
I will tell of your name to my brothers;
in the midst of the congregation I will praise you:
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You who fear the Lord, praise him!
All you offspring of Jacob, glorify him,
and stand in awe of him, all you offspring of Israel!
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For he has not despised or abhorred
the affliction of the afflicted,
and he has not hidden his face from him,
but has heard, when he cried to him.
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From you comes my praise in the great congregation;
my vows I will perform before those who fear him.
- 26
The afflicted shall eat and be satisfied;
those who seek him shall praise the Lord!
May your hearts live forever!
- 27
All the ends of the earth shall remember
and turn to the Lord,
and all the families of the nations
shall worship before you.
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For kingship belongs to the Lord,
and he rules over the nations.
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All the prosperous of the earth eat and worship;
before him shall bow all who go down to the dust,
even the one who could not keep himself alive.
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Posterity shall serve him;
it shall be told of the Lord to the coming generation;
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they shall come and proclaim his righteousness to a people yet unborn,
that he has done it.