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To the tune of “The Doe of the Morning.” A psalm of David.</p><div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/22-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?</p><p class="line2">Why are you so far from saving me,</p><p class="line2">so far from my cries of anguish?</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/22-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>My God, I cry out by day, but you do not answer,</p><p class="line2">by night, but I find no rest. <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or night, and am not silent">b</a></sup></span> </p></div> <div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/22-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Yet you are enthroned as the Holy One;</p><p class="line2">you are the one Israel praises. <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or Yet you are holy, enthroned on the praises of Israel">c</a></sup></span> </p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/22-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>In you our ancestors put their trust;</p><p class="line2">they trusted and you delivered them.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/22-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>To you they cried out and were saved;</p><p class="line2">in you they trusted and were not put to shame.</p></div> <div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/22-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>But I am a worm and not a man,</p><p class="line2">scorned by everyone, despised by the people.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/22-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>All who see me mock me;</p><p class="line2">they hurl insults, shaking their heads.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/22-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>“He trusts in the <span class="name">Lord</span>,” they say,</p><p class="line2">“let the <span class="name">Lord</span> rescue him.</p><p class="line1">Let him deliver him,</p><p class="line2">since he delights in him.”</p></div> <div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/22-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Yet you brought me out of the womb;</p><p class="line2">you made me trust in you, even at my mother’s breast.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/22-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>From birth I was cast on you;</p><p class="line2">from my mother’s womb you have been my God.</p></div> <div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/22-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Do not be far from me,</p><p class="line2">for trouble is near</p><p class="line2">and there is no one to help.</p></div> <div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/22-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Many bulls surround me;</p><p class="line2">strong bulls of Bashan encircle me.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/22-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Roaring lions that tear their prey</p><p class="line2">open their mouths wide against me.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/22-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>I am poured out like water,</p><p class="line2">and all my bones are out of joint.</p><p class="line1">My heart has turned to wax;</p><p class="line2">it has melted within me.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/22-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>My mouth <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Probable reading of the original Hebrew text; Masoretic Text strength">d</a></sup></span> is dried up like a potsherd,</p><p class="line2">and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth;</p><p class="line2">you lay me in the dust of death.</p></div> <div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/22-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Dogs surround me,</p><p class="line2">a pack of villains encircles me;</p><p class="line2">they pierce <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Dead Sea Scrolls and some manuscripts of the Masoretic Text, Septuagint and Syriac; most manuscripts of the Masoretic Text me, like a lion">e</a></sup></span> my hands and my feet.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/22-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>All my bones are on display;</p><p class="line2">people stare and gloat over me.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/22-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>They divide my clothes among them</p><p class="line2">and cast lots for my garment.</p></div> <div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/22-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>But you, <span class="name">Lord</span>, do not be far from me.</p><p class="line2">You are my strength; come quickly to help me.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/22-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Deliver me from the sword,</p><p class="line2">my precious life from the power of the dogs.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/22-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Rescue me from the mouth of the lions;</p><p class="line2">save me from the horns of the wild oxen.</p></div> <div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/22-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>I will declare your name to my people;</p><p class="line2">in the assembly I will praise you.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/22-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>You who fear the <span class="name">Lord</span>, praise him!</p><p class="line2">All you descendants of Jacob, honor him!</p><p class="line2">Revere him, all you descendants of Israel!</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/22-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>For he has not despised or scorned</p><p class="line2">the suffering of the afflicted one;</p><p class="line1">he has not hidden his face from him</p><p class="line2">but has listened to his cry for help.</p></div> <div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/22-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>From you comes the theme of my praise in the great assembly;</p><p class="line2">before those who fear you <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew him">f</a></sup></span> I will fulfill my vows.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/22-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>The poor will eat and be satisfied;</p><p class="line2">those who seek the <span class="name">Lord</span> will praise him—</p><p class="line2">may your hearts live forever!</p></div> <div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/22-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>All the ends of the earth</p><p class="line2">will remember and turn to the <span class="name">Lord</span>,</p><p class="line1">and all the families of the nations</p><p class="line2">will bow down before him,</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/22-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>for dominion belongs to the <span class="name">Lord</span></p><p class="line2">and he rules over the nations.</p></div> <div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/22-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>All the rich of the earth will feast and worship;</p><p class="line2">all who go down to the dust will kneel before him—</p><p class="line2">those who cannot keep themselves alive.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/22-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>Posterity will serve him;</p><p class="line2">future generations will be told about the Lord.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/22-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>They will proclaim his righteousness,</p><p class="line2">declaring to a people yet unborn:</p><p class="line2">He has done it!</p></div><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="footnotes"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">1</span> <span class="footnotebot">In Hebrew texts 22:1-31 is numbered 22:2-32.</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">2</span> <span class="footnotebot">Or <i>night, and am not silent</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">3</span> <span class="footnotebot">Or <i>Yet you are holy,<br />     enthroned on the praises of Israel</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">d</span> <span class="fnverse">15</span> <span class="footnotebot">Probable reading of the original Hebrew text; Masoretic Text <i>strength</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">e</span> <span class="fnverse">16</span> <span class="footnotebot">Dead Sea Scrolls and some manuscripts of the Masoretic Text, Septuagint and Syriac; most manuscripts of the Masoretic Text <i>me,<br />     like a lion</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">f</span> <span class="fnverse">25</span> <span class="footnotebot">Hebrew <i>him</i></span><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><p class="ntext"><a href="http://niv.scripturetext.com/version.htm">New International Version</a> (NIV)</p><p class="ntext2">Holy Bible, New International Version&reg, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by <a href="http://biblica.com">Biblica, Inc.</a>® Used by permission. 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