Psalms 22
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PSALM 22
Common Meter: 8,6,8,6
To the chief Musician upon Aijeleth Shahar,
A Psalm of David.
1My God, my God, why hast thou me
forsaken? why so far
Art thou from helping me, and from
my words that roaring are?
2All day, my God, to thee I cry,
yet am not heard by thee;
And in the season of the night
I cannot silent be.
3But thou art holy, thou that dost
inhabit Isr'el's praise.
4Our fathers hop'd in thee, they hop'd
and thou didst them release.
5When unto thee they sent their cry,
to them deliv'rance came:
Because they put their trust in thee,
they were not put to shame.
6But as for me, a worm I am,
and as no man am priz'd:
Reproach of men I am, and by
the people am despis'd.
7All that me see laugh me to scorn;
shoot out the lip do they;
They nod and shake their heads at me,
and, mocking, thus do say,
8This man did trust in God, that he
would free him by his might:
Let him deliver him, sith he
had in him such delight.
9But thou art he out of the womb
that didst me safely take;
When I was on my mother's breasts
thou me to hope didst make.
10And I was cast upon thy care,
ev'n from the womb till now;
And from my mother's belly, Lord,
my God and guide art thou.
11Be not far off, for grief is near,
and none to help is found.
12Bulls many compass me, strong bulls
of Bashan me surround.
13Their mouths they open'd wide on me,
upon me gape did they,
Like to a lion ravening
and roaring for his prey.
14Like water I'm pour'd out, my bones
all out of joint do part:
Amidst my bowels, as the wax,
so melted is my heart.
15My strength is like a potsherd dry'd;
my tongue it cleaveth fast
Unto my jaws; and to the dust
of death thou brought me hast.
16For dogs have compass'd me about:
the wicked, that did meet
In their assembly, me inclos'd;
they pierc'd my hands and feet.
17I all my bones may tell; they do
upon me look and stare.
18Upon my vesture lots they cast,
and clothes among them share.
19But be not far, O Lord, my strength;
haste to give help to me.
20From sword my soul, from pow'r of dogs
my darling set thou free.
21Out of the roaring lion's mouth
do thou me shield and save:
For from the horns of unicorns
an ear to me thou gave.
22I will shew forth thy name unto
those that my brethren are;
Amidst the congregation
thy praise I will declare.
23Praise ye the Lord, who do him fear;
him glorify all ye
The seed of Jacob: fear him all
that Isr'el's children be.
24For he despis'd not nor abhorr'd
th' afflicted's misery;
Nor from him hid his face, but heard
when he to him did cry.
25Within the congregation great
my praise shall be of thee;
My vows before them that him fear
shall be perform'd by me.
26The meek shall eat,
and shall be fill'd;
they also praise shall give
Unto the Lord that do him seek:
your heart shall ever live.
27All ends of th' earth remember shall,
and turn the Lord unto;
All kindreds of the nations
to him shall homage do:
28Because the kingdom to the Lord
doth appertain as his;
Likewise among the nations
the Governor he is.
29Earth's fat ones eat,
and worship shall:
all who to dust descend
Shall bow to him; none of them can
his soul from death defend.
30A seed shall service do to him;
unto the Lord it shall
Be for a generation
reckon'd in ages all.
31They shall come, and they shall declare
his truth and righteousness
Unto a people yet unborn,
and that he hath done this.
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Psalms 22
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PSALM 22
1 To the overcomer, for the morrow-tide hind, the psalm of David. God, my God, behold thou on me, why hast thou forsaken me? the words of my trespasses be far from mine health.
2My God, I shall cry by day, and thou shalt not hear; and by night, and not to unwisdom to me.
3Forsooth thou, the praising of Israel, dwellest in holiness;
4our fathers hoped in thee; they hoped, and thou deliveredest them.
5They cried to thee, and they were made safe; they hoped in thee, and they were not shamed.
6But I am a worm, and not a man; the shame of men, and the out-casting of the people.
7All men seeing me scorned me; they spake with lips, and wagged the head, and said,
8He hoped in the Lord, deliver he him; make he him safe, for he will or delights in him.
9For thou it art that drewest me out of the womb, that art mine hope from the teats of my mother;
10into thee I am cast forth from the womb. From the womb of my mother thou art my God;
11depart thou not from me. For tribulation is next; for none there is that helpeth.
12Many calves encompassed me; fat bulls besieged me.
13They opened their mouth on me; as a lion ravishing and roaring.
14I am poured out as water; and all my bones be scattered. Mine heart is made, as wax floating abroad [or melting]; in the midst of my womb.
15My virtue dried as a tilestone, and my tongue cleaved to my cheeks; and thou hast brought forth me into the dust of death.
16For many dogs encompassed me; the council of wicked men besieged me. They delved mine hands and my feet;
17they numbered all my bones. Soothly they looked, and beheld me;
18they parted my clothes to them-selves, and they sent lot on my cloth.
19But thou, Lord, delay not thine help from me; behold thou to my defence.
20God, deliver thou my life from sword; and deliver thou mine one alone from the hand, or power, of the dog.
21Make thou me safe from the mouth of a lion; and my meekness from the horns of unicorns.
22I shall tell thy name to my brethren; I shall praise thee in the midst of the church.
23Ye that dread the Lord, praise him; all the seed of Jacob, glorify him. All the seed of Israel, dread him;
24for he forsook not, neither despised the prayer of a poor man. Neither he turned away his face from me; and when I cried to him, he heard me.
25My praising is with thee in a great church; I shall yield my vows in the sight of men dreading him.
26Poor men shall eat, and shall be [ful] filled, and they shall praise the Lord, that seek him; the hearts of them shall live into the world of world.
27All the ends of earth shall bethink; and shall be converted to the Lord. And all the meines of heathen men, shall worship in his sight.
28For the realm is the Lord’s; and he shall be Lord of heathen men.
29All the fat men of earth ate and worshipped; all men, that go down into earth, shall fall down in his sight. And my soul shall live to him;
30and my seed shall serve him. A generation to coming shall be told to the Lord;
31and heavens shall tell his rightful-ness [or rightwiseness] to the people that shall be born, whom the Lord made.
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