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22:1  For the director. According to “The Deer of the Dawn.” A psalm of David.
22:2  My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why have you paid no heed to my call for help, to my cries of anguish?
22:3  O my God, I cry by day, but you do not answer, by night, but I am afforded no relief.
22:4  Yet you are enthroned as the Holy One; you are the praise of Israel.
22:5  Our ancestors placed their trust in you; they trusted, and you gave them deliverance.
22:6  They cried out to you and were saved, they trusted in you and were not put to shame.
22:7  But I am a worm and not human, scorned by people and despised by my kinsmen.
22:8  All who see me jeer at me; they sneer in mockery and toss their heads:
22:9  “He relied on the Lord; let the Lord set him free. Let the Lord deliver him, if he loves him.”
22:10  Yet you brought me out of the womb and made me feel secure upon my mother’s breast.
22:11  I was entrusted to your care at my birth; from my mother’s womb, you have been my God.
22:12  Do not remain aloof from me, for trouble is near and no one can help me.
22:13  Many bulls are encircling me; fierce bulls of Bashan are closing in on me.
22:14  They open wide their mouths against me like ravening and roaring lions.
22:15  My strength is trickling away like water, and all my bones are dislocated. My heart has turned to wax and melts within me.
22:16  My mouth is as dry as clayware, and my tongue sticks to my jaw; you have laid me down in the dust of death.
22:17  A pack of dogs surrounds me; a band of evildoers is closing in on me. They have pierced my hands and my feet;
22:18  I can count all my bones. They stare at me and gloat;
22:19  they divide my garments among them, and for my clothing they cast lots.
22:20  But you, O Lord, do not remain aloof from me. O my Strength, come quickly to my aid.
22:21  Deliver my soul from the sword, my precious life from the grasp of the dogs.
22:22  Save me from the lion’s mouth and from the horns of wild oxen.
22:23  I will proclaim your name to my family; in the midst of the assembly I will praise you:
22:24  “You who fear the Lord, praise him. All you descendants of Jacob, give him glory. Revere him, all you descendants of Israel.
22:25  For he has not scorned or disregarded the wretched man in his suffering; he has not hidden his face from him but has heeded his call for help.”
22:26  I will offer my praise to you in the great assembly; in the presence of those who fear him, I will fulfill my vows.
22:27  The poor will eat and be filled; those who seek the Lord will praise him: “May your hearts live forever.”
22:28  All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to the Lord. All the families of the nations will bow low before him.
22:29  For kingly power belongs to the Lord; he is the ruler of all the nations.
22:30  All those who prosper on the earth will bow down before him; all those who lie in the grave will kneel in homage.
22:31  But I will live for the Lord, and my descendants will serve him.