22:1 My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, so far from the words of my groaning?
22:2 my God, I cry out by day, but you do not answer, by night, and am not silent.
22:3 Yet you are enthroned as the Holy One you are the praise of Israel. [Or Yet you are holy, enthroned on the praises of Israel]
22:4 In you our fathers put their trust they trusted and you delivered them.
22:5 They cried to you and were saved in you they trusted and were not disappointed.
22:6 But I am a worm and not a man, scorned by men and despised by the people.
22:7 All who see me mock me they hurl insults, shaking their heads:
22:8 He trusts in the LORD let the LORD rescue him. Let him deliver him, since he delights in him.
22:9 Yet you brought me out of the womb you made me trust in you even at my mother’s breast.
22:10 From birth I was cast upon you from my mother’s womb you have been my God.
22:11 Do not be far from me, for trouble is near and there is no-one to help.
22:12 Many bulls surround me strong bulls of Bashan encircle me.
22:13 Roaring lions tearing their prey open their mouths wide against me.
22:14 I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint. My heart has turned to wax it has melted away within me.
22:15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth you lay me [Or I am laid] in the dust of death.
22:16 Dogs have surrounded me a band of evil men has encircled me, they have pierced [Some Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint and Syriac most Hebrew manuscripts like the lion,] my hands and my feet.
22:17 I can count all my bones people stare and gloat over me.
22:18 They divide my garments among them and cast lots for my clothing.
22:19 But you, O LORD, be not far off O my Strength, come quickly to help me.
22:20 Deliver my life from the sword, my precious life from the power of the dogs.
22:21 Rescue me from the mouth of the lions save [Or you have heard] me from the horns of the wild oxen.
22:22 I will declare your name to my brothers in the congregation I will praise you.
22:23 You who fear the LORD, praise him! All you descendants of Jacob, honour him! Revere him, all you descendants of Israel!
22:24 For he has not despised or disdained the suffering of the afflicted one he has not hidden his face from him but has listened to his cry for help.
22:25 From you comes the theme of my praise in the great assembly before those who fear you [Hebrew: him] will I fulfil my vows.
22:26 The poor will eat and be satisfied they who seek the LORD will praise him may your hearts live for ever!
22:27 All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to the LORD, and all the families of the nations will bow down before him,
22:28 for dominion belongs to the LORD and he rules over the nations.
22:29 All the rich of the earth will feast and worship all who go down to the dust will kneel before him those who cannot keep themselves alive.
22:30 Posterity will serve him future generations will be told about the Lord.
22:31 They will proclaim his righteousness to a people yet unborn for he has done it.23 A PSALM OF DAVID.