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A Psalm of David.</span></h4><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="text"><span class="versenum">1</span>My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">Why are you so far from helping me, from the words of my groaning?</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">2</span>O my God, I cry by day, but you do not answer;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and by night, but find no rest.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">3</span>Yet you are holy,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">enthroned on the praises of Israel.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>In you our ancestors trusted;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">they trusted, and you delivered them.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>To you they cried, and were saved;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">in you they trusted, and were not put to shame.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>But I am a worm, and not human;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">scorned by others, and despised by the people.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>All who see me mock at me;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">they make mouths at me, they shake their heads;</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>“Commit your cause to the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>; let him deliver—</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">let him rescue the one in whom he delights!”</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>Yet it was you who took me from the womb;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">you kept me safe on my mother’s breast.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>On you I was cast from my birth,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and since my mother bore me you have been my God.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>Do not be far from me,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">for trouble is near</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and there is no one to help.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>Many bulls encircle me,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">strong bulls of Bashan surround me;</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>they open wide their mouths at me,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">like a ravening and roaring lion.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>I am poured out like water,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and all my bones are out of joint;</span></span><br /><span class="text">my heart is like wax;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">it is melted within my breast;</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>my mouth<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-16290a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote a">a</a>]</span> is dried up like a potsherd,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and my tongue sticks to my jaws;</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">you lay me in the dust of death.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>For dogs are all around me;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">a company of evildoers encircles me.</span></span><br /><span class="text">My hands and feet have shriveled;<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-16291b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote b">b</a>]</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>I can count all my bones.</span><br /><span class="text">They stare and gloat over me;</span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">18</span>they divide my clothes among themselves,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and for my clothing they cast lots.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">19</span>But you, O <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, do not be far away!</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">O my help, come quickly to my aid!</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">20</span>Deliver my soul from the sword,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">my life<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-16295c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote c">c</a>]</span> from the power of the dog!</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">21</span><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span>Save me from the mouth of the lion!</span></span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span class="text">From the horns of the wild oxen you have rescued<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-16296d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote d">d</a>]</span> me.</span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">22</span>I will tell of your name to my brothers and sisters;<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-16297e" title="See footnote e">e</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote e">e</a>]</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">in the midst of the congregation I will praise you:</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">23</span>You who fear the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, praise him!</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">All you offspring of Jacob, glorify him;</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">stand in awe of him, all you offspring of Israel!</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">24</span>For he did not despise or abhor</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">the affliction of the afflicted;</span></span><br /><span class="text">he did not hide his face from me,<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-16299f" title="See footnote f">f</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote f">f</a>]</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">but heard when I<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-16299g" title="See footnote g">g</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote g">g</a>]</span> cried to him.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">25</span>From you comes my praise in the great congregation;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">my vows I will pay before those who fear him.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">26</span>The poor<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-16301h" title="See footnote h">h</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote h">h</a>]</span> shall eat and be satisfied;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">those who seek him shall praise the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>.</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">May your hearts live forever!</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">27</span>All the ends of the earth shall remember</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and turn to the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>;</span></span><br /><span class="text">and all the families of the nations</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">shall worship before him.<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-16302i" title="See footnote i">i</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote i">i</a>]</span></span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">28</span>For dominion belongs to the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and he rules over the nations.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">29</span>To him,<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-16304j" title="See footnote j">j</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote j">j</a>]</span> indeed, shall all who sleep in<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-16304k" title="See footnote k">k</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote k">k</a>]</span> the earth bow down;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">before him shall bow all who go down to the dust,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and I shall live for him.<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-16304l" title="See footnote l">l</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote l">l</a>]</span></span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">30</span>Posterity will serve him;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">future generations will be told about the Lord,</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">31</span>and<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-16306m" title="See footnote m">m</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote m">m</a>]</span> proclaim his deliverance to a people yet unborn,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">saying that he has done it.</span></span></p></div> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Psalm 22:15">Psalm 22:15</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Cn: Heb <i>strength</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Psalm 22:16">Psalm 22:16</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Meaning of Heb uncertain</span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Psalm 22:20">Psalm 22:20</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb <i>my only one</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Psalm 22:21">Psalm 22:21</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb <i>answered</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Psalm 22:22">Psalm 22:22</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>kindred</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Psalm 22:24">Psalm 22:24</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb <i>him</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Psalm 22:24">Psalm 22:24</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb <i>he</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Psalm 22:26">Psalm 22:26</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>afflicted</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Psalm 22:27">Psalm 22:27</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Gk Syr Jerome: Heb <i>you</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Psalm 22:29">Psalm 22:29</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Cn: Heb <i>They have eaten and</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Psalm 22:29">Psalm 22:29</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Cn: Heb <i>all the fat ones</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Psalm 22:29">Psalm 22:29</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Compare Gk Syr Vg: Heb <i>and he who cannot keep himself alive</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Psalm 22:31">Psalm 22:31</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Compare Gk: Heb <i>it will be told about the Lord to the generation, <span class="versenum">31</span>they will come and</i></span></li></ol></div> <!--end of footnotes--></div></div></div></div></div> </div> 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