22Psalms 22

PSAL. XXII. / 1 Dauid complaineth in great discouragement. 9 Hee prayeth in great distresse. 23 Hee praiseth God. / To the chiefe Musician vpon Aijeleth Shahar. A Psalme of Dauid.

1My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken mee? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?Select Psalms 22:1

2O my God, I crie in the day time, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.Select Psalms 22:2

3But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel!Select Psalms 22:3

4Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliuer them.Select Psalms 22:4

5They cryed vnto thee, and were deliuered: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded.Select Psalms 22:5

6But I am a worme, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.Select Psalms 22:6

7All they that see me, laugh me to scorne: they shoote out the lippe, they shake the head, saying,Select Psalms 22:7

8He trusted on the Lord, that he would deliuer him: let him deliuer him, seeing he delighted in him.Select Psalms 22:8

9But thou art hee that tooke mee out of the wombe; thou didst make me hope, when I was vpon my mothers breasts.Select Psalms 22:9

10I was cast vpon thee from the wombe: thou art my God from my mothers belly.Select Psalms 22:10

11Be not farre from me, for trouble is neere; for there is none to helpe.Select Psalms 22:11

12Many bulles haue compassed me: strong bulles of Bashan haue beset me round.Select Psalms 22:12

13They gaped vpon me with their mouthes, as a rauening and a roaring Lyon.Select Psalms 22:13

14I am powred out like water, and all my bones are out of ioynt: my heart is like waxe, it is melted in the middest of my bowels.Select Psalms 22:14

15My strength is dried vp like a potsheard: and my tongue cleaueth to my iawes; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.Select Psalms 22:15

16For dogges haue compassed me: the assembly of the wicked haue inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feete.Select Psalms 22:16

17I may tell all my bones: they looke and stare vpon me.Select Psalms 22:17

18They part my garments among them, and cast lots vpon my vesture.Select Psalms 22:18

19But be not thou farre from mee, O Lord; O my strength, hast thee to helpe me.Select Psalms 22:19

20Deliuer my soule from the sword: my darling from the power of the dogge.Select Psalms 22:20

21Saue me from the lyons mouth: for thou hast heard me from the hornes of the vnicornes.Select Psalms 22:21

22I will declare thy name vnto my brethren: in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee.Select Psalms 22:22

23Yee that feare the Lord, praise him; all yee the seede of Iacob glorifie him, and feare him all yee the seede of Israel.Select Psalms 22:23

24For he hath not despised, nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him, but when he cried vnto him, he heard.Select Psalms 22:24

25My praise shalbe of thee, in the great congregation: I will pay my vowes, before them that feare him.Select Psalms 22:25

26The meeke shall eate and be satisfied: they shall praise the Lord that seeke him; your heart shall liue for euer.Select Psalms 22:26

27All the ends of the world shall remember, and turne vnto the Lord: and all the kinreds of the nations shall worship before thee.Select Psalms 22:27

28For the kingdome is the Lords: and he is the gouernour among the nations.Select Psalms 22:28

29All they that be fat vpon earth shall eate and worship: all they that goe downe to the dust shall bow before him, and none can keepe aliue his owne soule.Select Psalms 22:29

30A seed shall serue him; it shalbe accounted to the Lord for a generation.Select Psalms 22:30

31They shall come, and shall declare his righteousnes vnto a people that shalbe borne, that he hath done this.Select Psalms 22:31