Psalms, 22

1. [For the choirmaster To 'the Doe of the Dawn' Psalm Of David] My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? The words of my groaning do nothing to save me.

1. <To the chief Musician upon Aijeleth Shahar, A Psalm of David.> My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? [why art thou so] far from helping me, [and from] the words of my roaring?

2. My God, I call by day but you do not answer, at night, but I find no respite.

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

3. Yet you, the Holy One, who make your home in the praises of Israel,

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

4. in you our ancestors put their trust, they trusted and you set them free.

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

5. To you they called for help and were delivered; in you they trusted and were not put to shame.

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

6. But I am a worm, less than human, scorn of mankind, contempt of the people;

6. But I [am] a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.

7. all who see me jeer at me, they sneer and wag their heads,

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

8. 'He trusted himself to Yahweh, let Yahweh set him free! Let him deliver him, as he took such delight in him.'

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

9. It was you who drew me from the womb and soothed me on my mother's breast.

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.

10. On you was I cast from my birth, from the womb I have belonged to you.

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

11. Do not hold aloof, for trouble is upon me, and no one to help me!

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

12. Many bulls are encircling me, wild bulls of Bashan closing in on me.

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

13. Lions ravening and roaring open their jaws at me.

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

14. My strength is trickling away, my bones are all disjointed, my heart has turned to wax, melting inside 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.

15. My mouth is dry as earthenware, my tongue sticks to my jaw. You lay me down in the dust of death.

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.

16. A pack of dogs surrounds me, a gang of villains closing in on me as if to hack off my hands and my feet.

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

17. I can count every one of my bones, while they look on and gloat;

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

18. they divide my garments among them and cast lots for my clothing.

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

19. Yahweh, do not hold aloof! My strength, come quickly to my help,

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

20. rescue my soul from the sword, the one life I have from the grasp of the dog!

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

21. Save me from the lion's mouth, my poor life from the wild bulls' horns!

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

22. I shall proclaim your name to my brothers, praise you in full assembly:

22. I will declare thy name unto my brethren: in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee.

23. 'You who fear Yahweh, praise him! All the race of Jacob, honour him! Revere him, all the race of Israel!'

23. Ye that fear the LORD, praise him; all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him; and fear him, all ye the seed of Israel.

24. For he has not despised nor disregarded the poverty of the poor, has not turned away his face, but has listened to the cry for help.

24. For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him; but when he cried unto him, he heard.

25. Of you is my praise in the thronged assembly, I will perform my vows before all who fear him.

25. My praise [shall be] of thee in the great congregation: I will pay my vows before them that fear him.

26. The poor will eat and be filled, those who seek Yahweh will praise him, 'May your heart live for ever.'

26. The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the LORD that seek him: your heart shall live for ever.

27. The whole wide world will remember and return to Yahweh, all the families of nations bow down before him.

27. All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the LORD: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee.

28. For to Yahweh, ruler of the nations, belongs kingly power!

28. For the kingdom [is] the LORD'S: and he [is] the governor among the nations.

29. All who prosper on earth will bow before him, all who go down to the dust will do reverence before him. And those who are dead,

29. All [they that be] fat upon earth shall eat and worship: all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him: and none can keep alive his own soul.

30. their descendants will serve him, will proclaim his name to generations

30. A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation.

31. still to come; and these will tell of his saving justice to a people yet unborn: he has fulfilled it.

31. They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that he hath done [this].