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22:1  To the choirmaster: according to The Hind of the Dawn. A Psalm of David. My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Why art thou so far from helping me, from the words of my groaning?
22:2  O my God, I cry by day, but thou dost not answer; and by night, but find no rest.
22:3  Yet thou art holy, enthroned on the praises of Israel.
22:4  In thee our fathers trusted; they trusted, and thou didst deliver them.
22:5  To thee they cried, and were saved; in thee they trusted, and were not disappointed.
22:6  But I am a worm, and no man; scorned by men, and despised by the people.
22:7  All who see me mock at me, they make mouths at me, they wag their heads;
22:8  “He committed his cause to the Lord; let him deliver him, let him rescue him, for he delights in him!”
22:9  Yet thou art he who took me from the womb; thou didst keep me safe upon my mother’s breasts.
22:10  Upon thee was I cast from my birth, and since my mother bore me thou hast been my God.
22:11  Be not far from me, for trouble is near and there is none to help.
22:12  Many bulls encompass me, strong bulls of Bashan surround me;
22:13  they open wide their mouths at me, like a ravening and roaring lion.
22:14  I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint; my heart is like wax, it is melted within my breast;
22:15  my strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue cleaves to my jaws; thou dost lay me in the dust of death.
22:16  Yea, dogs are round about me; a company of evildoers encircle me; they have pierced my hands and feet—
22:17  I can count all my bones— they stare and gloat over me;
22:18  they divide my garments among them, and for my raiment they cast lots.
22:19  But thou, O Lord, be not far off! O thou my help, hasten to my aid!
22:20  Deliver my soul from the sword, my life from the power of the dog!
22:21  Save me from the mouth of the lion, my afflicted soul from the horns of the wild oxen!
22:22  I will tell of thy name to my brethren; in the midst of the congregation I will praise thee:
22:23  You who fear the Lord, praise him! all you sons of Jacob, glorify him, and stand in awe of him, all you sons of Israel!
22:24  For he has not despised or abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; and he has not hid his face from him, but has heard, when he cried to him.
22:25  From thee comes my praise in the great congregation; my vows I will pay before those who fear him.
22:26  The afflicted shall eat and be satisfied; those who seek him shall praise the Lord! May your hearts live for ever!
22:27  All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to the Lord; and all the families of the nations shall worship before him.
22:28  For dominion belongs to the Lord, and he rules over the nations.
22:29  Yea, to him shall all the proud of the earth bow down; before him shall bow all who go down to the dust, and he who cannot keep himself alive.
22:30  Posterity shall serve him; men shall tell of the Lord to the coming generation,
22:31  and proclaim his deliverance to a people yet unborn, that he has wrought it.