Psalms 22

For the director of music. To the tune of “The Doe of the Morning.” A psalm of David.

1 [a]My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, so far from my cries of anguish?
2 My God, I cry out by day, but you do not answer, by night, but I find no rest.[b]
3 Yet you are enthroned as the Holy One; you are the one Israel praises.[c]
4 In you our ancestors put their trust; they trusted and you delivered them.
5 To you they cried out and were saved; in you they trusted and were not put to shame.
6 But I am a worm and not a man, scorned by everyone, despised by the people.
7 All who see me mock me; they hurl insults, shaking their heads.
8 “He trusts in the LORD,” they say, “let the LORD rescue him. Let him deliver him, since he delights in him.”
9 Yet you brought me out of the womb; you made me trust in you, even at my mother’s breast.
10 From birth I was cast on you; from my mother’s womb you have been my God.
11 Do not be far from me, for trouble is near and there is no one to help.
12 Many bulls surround me; strong bulls of Bashan encircle me.
13 Roaring lions that tear their prey open their mouths wide against me.
14 I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint. My heart has turned to wax; it has melted within me.
15 My mouth[d] is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth; you lay me in the dust of death.
16 Dogs surround me, a pack of villains encircles me; they pierce[e] my hands and my feet.
17 All my bones are on display; people stare and gloat over me.
18 They divide my clothes among them and cast lots for my garment.
19 But you, LORD, do not be far from me. You are my strength; come quickly to help me.
20 Deliver me from the sword, my precious life from the power of the dogs.
21 Rescue me from the mouth of the lions; save me from the horns of the wild oxen.
22 I will declare your name to my people; in the assembly I will praise you.
23 You who fear the LORD, praise him! All you descendants of Jacob, honor him! Revere him, all you descendants of Israel!
24 For he has not despised or scorned the suffering of the afflicted one; he has not hidden his face from him but has listened to his cry for help.
25 From you comes the theme of my praise in the great assembly; before those who fear you[f] I will fulfill my vows.
26 The poor will eat and be satisfied; those who seek the LORD will praise him— may your hearts live forever!
27 All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to the LORD, and all the families of the nations will bow down before him,
28 for dominion belongs to the LORDand he rules over the nations.
29 All the rich of the earth will feast and worship; all who go down to the dust will kneel before him— those who cannot keep themselves alive.
30 Posterity will serve him; future generations will be told about the Lord.
31 They will proclaim his righteousness, declaring to a people yet unborn: He has done it!

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Cross References 78

  • 1. S Job 6:15; S Psalms 9:10; Matthew 27:46*; Mark 15:34*
  • 2. Psalms 10:1
  • 3. S Job 3:24
  • 4. S Job 19:7
  • 5. Psalms 42:3; Psalms 88:1
  • 6. S 2 Kings 19:22; Psalms 71:22; S Mark 1:24; Psalms 99:9
  • 7. S Exodus 15:2; Psalms 148:14; Deuteronomy 10:21
  • 8. Psalms 78:53; Psalms 107:6
  • 9. S 1 Chronicles 5:20
  • 10. Isaiah 8:17; Isaiah 25:9; Isaiah 26:3; Isaiah 30:18
  • 11. S 2 Chronicles 13:18; Psalms 25:3; Psalms 31:17; Psalms 71:1; Isaiah 49:23; Romans 9:33
  • 12. S Job 4:19; Job 25:6; Isaiah 41:14
  • 13. S 2 Samuel 12:14; Psalms 31:11; Psalms 64:8; Psalms 69:19; Psalms 109:25
  • 14. Psalms 119:141; Isaiah 49:7; Isaiah 53:3; Isaiah 60:14; Malachi 2:9; Matthew 16:21
  • 15. S Job 17:2; Psalms 35:16; Psalms 69:12; Psalms 74:18; Matthew 27:41; Mark 15:31; Luke 23:36
  • 16. Matthew 27:39,44; Mark 15:32; Luke 23:39
  • 17. Mark 15:29
  • 18. Psalms 91:14
  • 19. S Psalms 3:2
  • 20. S 2 Samuel 22:20; S Matthew 3:17; Matthew 27:43
  • 21. Job 10:18; Psalms 71:6
  • 22. Psalms 78:7; Nahum 1:7
  • 23. Psalms 71:6; Isaiah 46:3; Isaiah 49:1
  • 24. ver 19; S Psalms 10:1
  • 25. S Psalms 10:14
  • 26. S 2 Kings 14:26; S Isaiah 41:28; Psalms 72:12
  • 27. Psalms 68:30
  • 28. Psalms 17:9; Psalms 27:6; Psalms 49:5; Psalms 109:3; Psalms 140:9
  • 29. Deuteronomy 32:14; Isaiah 2:13; Ezekiel 27:6; Ezekiel 39:18; Amos 4:1
  • 30. ver 21; Ezekiel 22:25; Zephaniah 3:3; Psalms 17:12
  • 31. S Genesis 49:9
  • 32. Lamentations 3:46; Psalms 35:21
  • 33. S Psalms 6:2; Psalms 31:10
  • 34. Job 23:16; Psalms 68:2; Psalms 97:5; Micah 1:4
  • 35. Joshua 7:5; Job 30:16; Psalms 107:26; Daniel 5:6
  • 36. Isaiah 45:9
  • 37. Psalms 38:10; Psalms 137:6; Lamentations 4:4; Ezekiel 3:26; John 19:28
  • 38. S Job 7:21; Psalms 104:29
  • 39. Philippians 3:2; Psalms 59:6
  • 40. Isaiah 51:9; Isaiah 53:5; Zechariah 12:10; John 19:34; John 20:25
  • 41. Luke 23:35
  • 42. Psalms 25:2; Psalms 30:1; Psalms 35:19; Psalms 38:16; Lamentations 2:17; Micah 7:8; Luke 23:27
  • 43. S Leviticus 16:8; Matthew 27:35*; Mark 15:24; Luke 23:34; John 19:24*
  • 44. Mark 9:12
  • 45. S ver 11
  • 46. S Psalms 18:1
  • 47. Psalms 38:22; Psalms 70:5; Psalms 141:1
  • 48. Psalms 40:13
  • 49. S Job 5:20; Psalms 37:14
  • 50. Psalms 35:17
  • 51. Philippians 3:2
  • 52. S ver 13; S Job 4:10
  • 53. ver 12; S Numbers 23:22
  • 54. Psalms 26:12; Psalms 40:9,10; Psalms 68:26
  • 55. Psalms 35:18; Hebrews 2:12*
  • 56. Psalms 33:2; Psalms 66:8; Psalms 86:12; Psalms 103:1; Psalms 106:1; Psalms 113:1; Psalms 117:1; Psalms 135:19
  • 57. Psalms 50:15; Isaiah 24:15; Isaiah 25:3; Isaiah 49:23; Isaiah 60:9; Jeremiah 3:17
  • 58. S Deuteronomy 14:23; Psalms 33:8
  • 59. Psalms 102:17
  • 60. S Psalms 9:12
  • 61. Psalms 13:1; Psalms 27:9; Psalms 69:17; Psalms 102:2; Psalms 143:7
  • 62. S Job 24:12; S Job 36:5; Hebrews 5:7
  • 63. Psalms 26:12; Psalms 35:18; Psalms 40:9; Psalms 82:1
  • 64. S Numbers 30:2; Ecclesiastes 5:4
  • 65. Psalms 107:9
  • 66. Psalms 40:16
  • 67. S Psalms 2:8
  • 68. Psalms 86:9; Psalms 102:22; Daniel 7:27; Micah 4:1
  • 69. Psalms 47:7-8; Zechariah 14:9
  • 70. Psalms 45:12
  • 71. Psalms 95:6; Psalms 96:9; Psalms 99:5; Isaiah 27:13; Isaiah 49:7; Isaiah 66:23; Zechariah 14:16
  • 72. Isaiah 26:19
  • 73. Psalms 89:48
  • 74. Isaiah 53:10; Isaiah 54:3; Isaiah 61:9; Isaiah 66:22; Psalms 102:28
  • 75. Psalms 102:18
  • 76. S Psalms 5:8; Psalms 40:9
  • 77. Psalms 71:18; Psalms 78:6; Psalms 102:18
  • 78. Luke 18:31; Luke 24:44

Footnotes 6

  • [a]. In Hebrew texts 22:1-31 is numbered 22:2-32.
  • [b]. Or "night, and am not silent"
  • [c]. Or "Yet you are holy," / "enthroned on the praises of Israel"
  • [d]. Probable reading of the original Hebrew text; Masoretic Text "strength"
  • [e]. Dead Sea Scrolls and some manuscripts of the Masoretic Text, Septuagint and Syriac; most manuscripts of the Masoretic Text "me," / "like a lion"
  • [f]. Hebrew "him"

Psalms 22 Commentaries

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