Psalms 22

¹ My God, my God, why have you deserted me? How far from saving me, the words I groan!

² I call all day, my God, but you never answer, all night long I call and cannot rest.

³ Yet, Holy One, you who make your home in the praises of Israel,

⁴ in you our fathers put their trust, they trusted and you rescued them;

⁵ they called to you for help and they were saved, they never trusted you in vain.

⁶ Yet here am I, now more worm than man, scorn of mankind, jest of the people,

⁷ all who see me jeer at me, they toss their heads and sneer,

⁸ ‘He relied on Yahweh, let Yahweh save him! If Yahweh is his friend, let Him rescue him!’

⁹ Yet you drew me out of the womb, you entrusted me to my mother’s breasts;

¹⁰ placed on your lap from my birth, from my mother’s womb you have been my God.

¹¹ Do not stand aside: trouble is near, I have no one to help me!

¹² A herd of bulls surrounds me, strong bulls of Bashan close in on me;

¹³ their jaws are agape for me, like lions tearing and roaring.

¹⁴ I am like water draining away, my bones are all disjointed, my heart is like wax, melting inside me;

¹⁶ A pack of dogs surrounds me, a gang of Villains closes me in; they tie me hand and foot

¹⁷ I can count every one of my bones, and there they glare at me, gloating;

¹⁸ they divide my garments among them and cast lots for my clothes.

¹⁹ Do not stand aside, Yahweh. O my strength, come quickly to my help;

²⁰ rescue my soul from the sword, my dear life from the paw of the dog,

²¹ save me from the lion’s mouth, my poor soul from the wild bulls’ horns!

²² Then I shall proclaim your name to my brothers, praise you in full assembly:

²³ you who fear Yahweh, praise him! Entire race of Jacob, glorify him! Entire race of Israel, revere him!

²⁴ For he has not despised or disdained the poor man in his poverty, has not hidden his face from him, but has answered him when he called.

²⁵ You are the theme of my praise in the Great Assembly, I perform my vows in the presence of those who fear him.

²⁶ The poor will receive as much as they want to eat. Those who seek Yahweh will praise him. Long life to their hearts!

²⁷ The whole earth, from end to end, will remember and come back to Yahweh; all the families of the nations will bow down before him.

²⁸ For Yahweh reigns, the ruler of nations!

²⁹ Before him all the prosperous of the earth will bow down, before him will bow all who go down to the dust. And my soul will live for him,

³⁰ my children will serve him; men will proclaim the Lord to generations

³¹ still to come, his righteousness to a people yet unborn. All this he has done.