Psalms 22

1

My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken mee? Why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?

2

O my God, I crie in the day time, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.

3

But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel!

4

Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliuer them.

5

They cryed vnto thee, and were deliuered: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded.

6

But I am a worme, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.

7

All they that see me, laugh me to scorne: they shoote out the lippe, they shake the head, saying,

8

He trusted on the LORD, that he would deliuer him: let him deliuer him, seeing he delighted in him.

9

But thou art hee that tooke mee out of the wombe; thou didst make me hope, when I was vpon my mothers breasts.

10

I was cast vpon thee from the wombe: thou art my God from my mothers belly.

11

Be not farre from me, for trouble is neere; for there is none to helpe.

12

Many bulles haue compassed me: strong bulles of Bashan haue beset me round.

13

They gaped vpon me with their mouthes, as a rauening and a roaring Lyon.

14

I am powred out like water, and all my bones are out of ioynt: my heart is like waxe, it is melted in the middest of my bowels.

15

My strength is dried vp like a potsheard: and my tongue cleaueth to my iawes; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.

16

For dogges haue compassed me: the assembly of the wicked haue inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feete.

17

I may tell all my bones: they looke and stare vpon me.

18

They part my garments among them, and cast lots vpon my vesture.

19

But be not thou farre from mee, O LORD; O my strength, hast thee to helpe me.

20

Deliuer my soule from the sword: my darling from the power of the dogge.

21

Saue me from the lyons mouth: for thou hast heard me from the hornes of the vnicornes.

22

I will declare thy name vnto my brethren: in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee.

23

Yee that feare the LORD, praise him; all yee the seede of Iacob glorifie him, and feare him all yee the seede of Israel.

24

For he hath not despised, nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him, but when he cried vnto him, he heard.

25

My praise shalbe of thee, in the great congregation: I will pay my vowes, before them that feare him.

26

The meeke shall eate and be satisfied: they shall praise the LORD that seeke him; your heart shall liue for euer.

27

All the ends of the world shall remember, and turne vnto the LORD: and all the kinreds of the nations shall worship before thee.

28

For the kingdome is the LORDs: and he is the gouernour among the nations.

29

All they that be fat vpon earth shall eate and worship: all they that goe downe to the dust shall bow before him, and none can keepe aliue his owne soule.

30

A seed shall serue him; it shalbe accounted to the Lord for a generation.

31

They shall come, and shall declare his righteousnes vnto a people that shalbe borne, that he hath done this.