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title: Psalm 22
slug: kjv/psalm-22
createdAt: 2024-08-21T01:50:58.112Z
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**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 **O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

**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 the kingdom *is* the LORD'S: and he *is* the governor among the nations.

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

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