Testaments

Psalms - Chapter 22 - King James Version

  1. My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?why art thou sofar from helping me,and fromthe words of my roaring?
  2. O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.
  3. But thouartholy,O thouthat inhabitest the praises of Israel.
  4. Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them.
  5. They cried unto thee, and were delivered: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded.
  6. But Iama worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.
  7. All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head,saying,
  8. He trusted on theLORDthathe would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.
  9. But thouarthe that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hopewhen I wasupon my mother’s breasts.
  10. I was cast upon thee from the womb: thouartmy God from my mother’s belly.
  11. Be not far from me; for troubleisnear; forthere isnone to help.
  12. Many bulls have compassed me: strongbullsof Bashan have beset me round.
  13. They gaped upon mewiththeir mouths,asa ravening and a 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 in the midst of my bowels.
  15. My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.
  16. For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.
  17. I may tell all my bones: they lookandstare upon me.
  18. They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.
  19. But be not thou far from me, OLORD: O my strength, haste thee to help me.
  20. Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog.
  21. Save me from the lion’s mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns.
  22. I will declare thy name unto my brethren: in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee.
  23. Ye that fear theLORD, praise him; all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him; and fear him, all ye the seed 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 unto him, he heard.
  25. My praiseshall beof thee in the great congregation: I will pay my vows before them that fear him.
  26. The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise theLORDthat seek him: your heart shall live for ever.
  27. All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto theLORD: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee.
  28. For the kingdomistheLORD’s: and heisthe governor among the nations.
  29. Allthey that befat upon earth shall eat and worship: all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him: and none can keep alive his own soul.
  30. A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation.
  31. They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that he hath donethis.