Psalm

22 My God, my God, why have you left me?*+

[Why are you] far from saving me,+

[From] the words of my roaring?*+

 2 O my God,* I keep calling by day, and you do not answer;+

And by night, and there is no silence on my part.+

 3 But you are holy,+

Inhabiting the praises of Israel.+

 4 In you our fathers trusted;+

They trusted, and you kept providing them with escape.+

 5 To you they cried out,+ and they got away safe;+

In you they trusted, and they did not come to shame.+

 6 But I am a worm,+ and not a man,*

A reproach to men* and despicable to the people.+

 7 As for all those seeing me, they hold me in derision;+

They keep opening their mouths wide,* they keep wagging [their] head:+

 8 “He committed himself* to Jehovah.+ Let Him provide him with escape!+

Let him deliver him, since he has taken delight in him!”+

 9 For you were the One drawing me forth from the belly,+

The One making me trust while upon the breasts of my mother.+

10 Upon you I have been thrown from the womb;+

From the belly of my mother you have been my God.*+

11 Do not keep far off from me, because distress is nearby,+

Because there is no other helper.+

12 Many young bulls have surrounded me;+

The powerful ones of Baʹshan themselves have got around me.+

13 They have opened against me their mouth,+

As a lion tearing in pieces and roaring.+

14 Like water I have been poured out,+

And all my bones have been separated from one another.+

My heart has become like wax;+

It has melted deep in my inward parts.+

15 My power* has dried up just like a fragment of earthenware,+

And my tongue is made to stick to my gums;*+

And in the dust of death you are setting me.+

16 For dogs have surrounded me;+

The assembly of evildoers themselves have enclosed me.+

Like a lion [they are at] my hands and my feet.*+

17 I can count all my bones.+

They themselves look, they gaze upon me.+

18 They apportion my garments among themselves,+

And upon my clothing they cast lots.+

19 But you, O Jehovah, O do not keep far off.+

O you my strength,+ do make haste to my assistance.+

20 Do deliver from the sword my soul,+

My only one* from the very paw of the dog;+

21 Save me from the mouth of the lion,+

And from the horns of wild bulls you must answer [and save] me.+

22 I will declare your name+ to my brothers;+

In the middle of the congregation* I shall praise you.+

23 YOU fearers of Jehovah, praise him!+

All YOU the seed of Jacob, glorify him!+

And be frightened at him, all YOU the seed of Israel.+

24 For he has neither despised+

Nor loathed the affliction of the afflicted one;+

And he has not concealed his face from him,+

And when he cried to him for help he heard.+

25 From you my praise will be in the large congregation;+

My vows I shall pay in front of those fearing him.+

26 The meek ones will eat and be satisfied;+

Those seeking him will praise Jehovah.+

May YOUR hearts* live forever.+

27 All the ends of the earth will remember and turn back to Jehovah.+

And all the families of the nations will bow down before you.+

28 For the kingship belongs to Jehovah,+

And he is dominating the nations.+

29 All the fat ones of the earth shall eat and will bow down;+

Before him all those going down to the dust will bend down,+

And no one will ever preserve his own soul* alive.+

30 A seed* itself will serve him;+

It will be declared concerning Jehovah* to the generation.+

31 They will come and tell of his righteousness+

To the people that is to be born, that he* has done [this].+