Psalms, Chapter 22
1
For the Chief Musician; set to Aijeleth hash-Shahar. A Psalm of David. My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? [Why are you so] far from helping me, [and from] the words of my groaning?
2
O my God, I cry in the daytime, but you don't answer; And in the night season, and am not silent.
3
But you are holy, O you who inhabit the praises of Israel.
4
Our fathers trusted in [your Speech]: They trusted, and you delivered them.
5
They cried to you, and were delivered: They trusted in you, and were not put to shame.
6
But I am a worm, and not a man; A reproach of man, and despised of the people.
7
All those who see me laugh me to scorn: They shoot out the lip, they shake the head, [saying,]
8
Commit [yourself] to Yahweh; Let him deliver him: Let him rescue him, seeing he delights in him.
9
But you are he who took me out of the womb; You made me trust [when I was] on my mother's breasts.
10
I was cast on you from the womb; You are my God since my mother bore me.
11
Don't be far from me; for trouble is near; For there is none to help.
12
Many bulls have surrounded me; Strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.
13
They gape on me with their mouth, [As] a ravening and a roaring lion.
14
I am poured out like water, And all my bones are out of joint: My heart is like wax; It is melted inside me.
15
My strength is dried up like a potsherd; And my tongue is sticking to my jaws; And you have brought me into the dust of death.
16
For dogs have surrounded me: A company of evildoers have enclosed me; They surrounded me like a lion [threatening] to tear me to pieces.[fn]
17
I may count all my bones. They look and stare on me;
18
They part my garments among them, And on my vesture they cast lots.
19
But don't be far off, O Yahweh: O you my help, hurry to help me.
20
Deliver my soul from the sword, My darling from the power of the dog.
21
Save me from the lion's mouth; Yes, from the horns of the wild-oxen you have answered me.
22
I will declare your name to my brothers: In the midst of the assembly I will praise you.
23
You⁺ who fear Yahweh, praise him; All you⁺ the seed of Jacob, glorify him; And stand in awe of him, all you⁺ the seed of Israel.
24
For he has not despised nor detested the affliction of the afflicted; Neither has he hid his face from him; But when he cried to him, he heard.
25
Of you comes my praise in the great assembly: I will pay my vows before those who fear him.
26
The meek will eat and be satisfied; They will praise Yahweh who seek after him: Let your⁺ heart live forever.
27
All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to Yahweh; And all the kindreds of the nations will worship before you.
28
For the kingdom is Yahweh's; And he is the ruler over the nations.
29
All the fat ones of the earth will eat and worship: All those who go down to the dust will bow before him, Even he who can't keep his soul alive.
30
A seed will serve him; It will be told of the Lord to the [next] generation.
31
They will come and will declare his righteousness To a people who will be born, that he has done it.
Footnotes
16
Literally this reads, 'They surrounded me like a lion my hands and my feet.' This is the reading of the MT which follows HOTTP with a good degree of certainty (B on a scale of A-D). Also see Gesenius who concurs in his lexicon on page 388. Note the similar context of dogs and lions in verses 13, 20 and 21. However, LXX, DSS and other manuscripts may read 'They pierced my hands and my feet'.
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