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22:1  To the leader: according to The Deer of the Dawn. A Psalm of David. My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, from the words of my groaning?
22:2  O my God, I cry by day, but you do not answer; and by night, but find no rest.
22:3  Yet you are holy, enthroned on the praises of Israel.
22:4  In you our ancestors trusted; they trusted, and you delivered them.
22:5  To you they cried, and were saved; in you they trusted, and were not put to shame.
22:6  But I am a worm, and not human; scorned by others, and despised by the people.
22:7  All who see me mock at me; they make mouths at me, they shake their heads;
22:8  ‘Commit your cause to the Lord; let him deliver— let him rescue the one in whom he delights!’
22:9  Yet it was you who took me from the womb; you kept me safe on my mother’s breast.
22:10  On you I was cast from my birth, and since my mother bore me you have been my God.
22:11  Do not be far from me, for trouble is near and there is no one to help.
22:12  Many bulls encircle 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 mouth is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to my jaws; you lay me in the dust of death.
22:16  For dogs are all around me; a company of evildoers encircles me. My hands and feet have shrivelled;
22:17  I can count all my bones. They stare and gloat over me;
22:18  they divide my clothes among themselves, and for my clothing they cast lots.
22:19  But you, O Lord, do not be far away! O my help, come quickly 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! From the horns of the wild oxen you have rescued me.
22:22  I will tell of your name to my brothers and sisters; in the midst of the congregation I will praise you:
22:23  You who fear the Lord, praise him! All you offspring of Jacob, glorify him; stand in awe of him, all you offspring of Israel!
22:24  For he did not despise or abhor the affliction of the afflicted; he did not hide his face from me, but heard when I cried to him.
22:25  From you comes my praise in the great congregation; my vows I will pay before those who fear him.
22:26  The poor 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  To him, indeed, shall all who sleep in the earth bow down; before him shall bow all who go down to the dust, and I shall live for him.
22:30  Posterity will serve him; future generations will be told about the Lord,
22:31  and proclaim his deliverance to a people yet unborn, saying that he has done it.