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22:1  For the choir director. According to “Doe of the Dawn.”A psalm by David. My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? My groaning does nothing to save me.
22:2  My God, I call out by day, but you do not answer. I call out by night, but there is no relief for me.
22:3  Yet you are seated as the Holy One, praised by Israel.
22:4  In you our fathers trusted. They trusted and you delivered them.
22:5  They cried out to you, and they were rescued. They trusted in you, and they were not disappointed.
22:6  But I am a worm and not a man, scorned by men and despised by the people.
22:7  All who see me mock me. They sneer. They shake their heads.
22:8  They say, “Trust in the Lord.” “Let the Lord deliver him. Let him rescue him, if he delights in him.”
22:9  But you are the one who brought me out of the belly. You made me trust when I was at my mother’s breasts.
22:10  I was cast on you from the womb. From the belly of my mother you have been my God.
22:11  Do not be distant from me, for distress is near, and there is no one to help.
22:12  Many bulls surround me. Strong bulls from Bashan encircle me.
22:13  Enemies open their mouths wide against me, like a lion that tears its prey and roars.
22:14  Like water I am poured out. All my bones are pulled apart. My heart has become like wax. It has melted in the middle of my chest.
22:15  My strength is dried up like broken pottery, and my tongue is stuck to the roof of my mouth. You lay me in the dust of death.
22:16  For dogs have surrounded me. A band of evil men has encircled me. They have pierced my hands and my feet.
22:17  I can count all my bones. They stare and gloat over me.
22:18  They divide my garments among them. For my clothing they cast lots.
22:19  But you, O Lord, do not be distant. O my Strength, come quickly to help me.
22:20  Deliver my life from the sword, my only life from the power of the dog.
22:21  Save me from the mouth of the lion. From the horns of the wild oxen you have answered me.
22:22  I will declare your name to my brothers. In the midst of the congregation I will praise you.
22:23  You who fear the Lord, praise him! All you descendants of Jacob, honor him! Stand in awe of him, all you descendants of Israel!
22:24  For he has not despised nor detested the affliction of the afflicted. He has not hidden his face from him, but when he cried out to him, he heard.
22:25  You are the source of my praise in the great congregation. I will fulfill my vows in the presence of those who fear him.
22:26  The poor will eat and be satisfied. Those who seek him will praise the Lord— may he live in your hearts forever!
22:27  All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to the Lord, and all the families of the nations will bow down before you.
22:28  For the kingdom belongs to the Lord, and he rules over the nations.
22:29  All the rich of the earth will eat and bow down. All who go down to the dust will kneel before him— those who cannot keep themselves alive.
22:30  Descendants will serve him. For generations people will be told about the Lord.
22:31  They will come and proclaim his righteousness to a people yet to be born— because he has done it.