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Psalms 22:1-21

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

1 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 O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.

2 My God, I cry out by day, but you do not answer, by night, but I find no rest.

3 But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel.

3 Yet you are enthroned as the Holy One; you are the one Israel praises.

4 Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them.

4 In you our ancestors put their trust; they trusted and you delivered them.

5 They cried unto thee, and were delivered: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded.

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 no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.

6 But I am a worm and not a man, scorned by everyone, despised by the people.

7 All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,

7 All who see me mock me; they hurl insults, shaking their heads.

8 He trusted on the LORD that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.

8 “He trusts in the LORD,” they say, “let the LORD rescue him. Let him deliver him, since he delights in him.”

9 But thou art he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother's breasts.

9 Yet you brought me out of the womb; you made me trust in you, even at my mother’s breast.

10 I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou art my God from my mother's belly.

10 From birth I was cast on you; from my mother’s womb you have been my God.

11 Be not far from me; for trouble is near; for there is none to help.

11 Do not be far from me, for trouble is near and there is no one to help.

12 Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.

12 Many bulls surround me; strong bulls of Bashan encircle me.

13 They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.

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 is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.

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 strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.

15 My mouth 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 For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.

16 Dogs surround me, a pack of villains encircles me; they pierce my hands and my feet.

17 I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me.

17 All my bones are on display; people stare and gloat over me.

18 They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.

18 They divide my clothes among them and cast lots for my garment.

19 But be not thou far from me, O LORD: O my strength, haste thee to help me.

19 But you, LORD, do not be far from me. You are my strength; come quickly to help me.

20 Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog.

20 Deliver me from the sword, my precious life from the power of the dogs.

21 Save me from the lion's mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns.

21 Rescue me from the mouth of the lions; save me from the horns of the wild oxen.

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