# Psalms 22 [[Psalms 21|←]] • [[Psalms 23|→]] --- To the chief Musician upon Aijeleth Shahar, A Psalm of David. ### 1 My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? far from helping me, the 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 thou holy, that 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 I a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people. ### 7 All they that see me laugh scorn: me to they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, ### 8 He trusted on the Lord he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him. ### 9 But thou he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope upon my mother's breasts. ### 10 I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou my God from my mother's belly. ### 11 Be not far from me; for trouble near; for none to help. ### 12 Many bulls have compassed me: strong of Bashan have beset me round. ### 13 They gaped upon me their mouths, a 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 look stare upon me. ### 18 They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture. ### 19 But be not thou far from me, O Lord: 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 the Lord, 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 praise of 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 the Lord that seek him: your heart shall live for ever. ### 27 All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the Lord: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee. ### 28 For the kingdom the Lord's: and he the governor among the nations. ### 29 All fat 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 done