Psalms 22

1 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?

To the Chief Musician. On "the Hind of the Dawn." A Melody of David. My GOD, my GOD, why hast thou forsaken me? Far from saving me, The words of my loud lamentation?

2 O my God, I crie by day, but thou hearest not, and by night, but haue no audience.

My God! I keep crying—By day, and thou dost not answer, and, By night, and there is no rest for me.

3 But thou art holy, and doest inhabite the prayses of Israel.

But, thou, art holy, Who inhabitest the praises of Israel.

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

In thee, trusted our fathers, They trusted, and thou didst deliver them;

5 They called vpon thee, and were deliuered: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded.

Unto thee, made they outcry, and escaped, In thee, they trusted, and had not turned pale.

6 But I am a worme, and not a man: a shame of men, and the contempt of the people.

But, I, am a worm and no one, a reproach of men, and despised of a people;

7 All they that see me, haue me in derision: they make a mowe and nod the head, saying,

All that see me, laugh at me, —They open wide the mouth, They shake the head: —

8 He trusted in the Lord, let him deliuer him: let him saue him, seeing he loueth him.

He should trust in Yahweh—let him deliver him, —Let him rescue him, seeing he delighteth in him.

9 But thou didest draw me out of ye wombe: thou gauest me hope, euen at my mothers breasts.

For, thou, art he that severed me from the womb, he that caused me to trust, upon the breasts of my mother;

10 I was cast vpon thee, euen from ye wombe: thou art my God from my mothers belly.

Upon thee, was I cast from the time I was born, From the womb of my mother, my GOD, hast thou been.

11 Be not farre from me, because trouble is neere: for there is none to helpe me.

Be not far from me, for, distress, is near, For there is none to help.

12 Many yong bulles haue compassed me: mightie bulles of Bashan haue closed me about.

Many bulls have surrounded me, Strong oxen of Bashan, have enclosed me;

13 They gape vpon me with their mouthes, as a ramping and roaring lyon.

They have opened wide against me their mouth, A lion rending and roaring.

14 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.

Like water, am I poured out, and, put out of joint, are all my bones, —My heart, hath become, like wax, it is melted in the midst of my body;

15 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.

Dried as a potsherd, is my strength, And, my tongue, is made to cleave to my gums, And, in the dust of death, wilt thou lay me.

16 For dogges haue compassed me, and the assemblie of the wicked haue inclosed me: they perced mine hands and my feete.

For dogs have surrounded me, —An assembly of evil doers, have encircled me, They have pierced my hands and my feet,

17 I may tell all my bones: yet they beholde, and looke vpon me.

I may tell all my bones, They, look for—they behold me!

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

They part my garments among them, and, for my vestment, they cast lots.

19 But be thou not farre off, O Lord, my strength: hasten to helpe me.

But, thou, O Yahweh, be not far off, O my help! to aid me, make haste;

20 Deliuer my soule from the sword: my desolate soule from the power of the dogge.

Rescue, from the sword, my life, from the power of the dog, my solitary self:

21 Saue me from the lyons mouth, and answere me in sauing me from the hornes of the vnicornes.

Save me from the mouth of the lion, —Yea, from the horns of wild beasts, hast thou delivered me.

22 I wil declare thy Name vnto my brethren: in the middes of the Congregation will I praise thee, saying,

I will declare thy Name unto my brethren, —In the midst of the convocation, will I praise thee.

23 Prayse the Lord, ye that feare him: magnifie ye him, all the seede of Iaakob, and feare ye him, all the seede of Israel.

Ye that revere Yahweh, praise him, All ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him, And, stand in awe of him, all ye seed of Israel.

24 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.

For he hath not despised nor abhorred the humbling of the patient one, neither hath he hid his face from him, but, when he cried for help unto him, he heard.

25 My prayse shalbe of thee in the great Congregation: my vowes will I perfourme before them that feare him.

Of thee, is my praise in the great convocation, My vows, will I pay, before them who revere him.

26 The poore shall eate and be satisfied: they that seeke after the Lord, shall prayse him: your heart shall liue for euer.

The patient wronged-ones shall eat and be satisfied, They shall praise Yahweh, who are seekers of him, Let your heart live for aye.

27 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.

All the ends of the earth, will remember and turn to Yahweh, Yea all the families of the nations, will bow themselves down before thee,

28 For the kingdome is the Lords, and he ruleth among the nations.

For, to Yahweh, belongeth the kingdom, And One to Rule over the nations.

29 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.

All the great ones of the earth, shall eat and bow down, Before him shall kneel, all that go down to the dust, Even he who had not kept alive, his own soul!

30 Their seede shall serue him: it shalbe counted vnto the Lord for a generation.

My seed, shall serve him, It shall be recounted, of the Lord, to a generation that shall come:

31 They shall come, and shall declare his righteousnesse vnto a people that shall be borne, because he hath done it.

That his righteousness may be declared to a people to be born, That he wrought with effect!