Psalm 22
From Suffering to Praise
For the choir director: according to “The Deer of the Dawn.” A psalm of David.
Why are you so far from my deliverance22:1 Ps 10:1
2My God, I cry by day, but you do not answer,
3But you are holy,
enthroned on the praises of Israel.22:3 Ps 99:3
4Our ancestors trusted in you;
they trusted, and you rescued them.22:4 Ps 107:6
5They cried to you and were set free;
7Everyone who sees me mocks me;
let him save him;
let the Lord22:8 Lit let him rescue him,
since he takes pleasure in him.”22:8 Mt 27:43
9It was you who brought me out of the womb,
making me secure at my mother’s breast.22:9 Ps 71:6
10I was given over to you at birth;22:10 Lit was cast on you from the womb
11Don’t be far from me, because distress is near
12Many bulls surround me;
13They open their mouths against me —
my heart is like wax,
melting within me.22:14 Nah 2:10
my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth.22:15 Lm 4:4
You put me into the dust of death.22:15 Ps 104:29
a gang of evildoers has closed in on me;
they pierced22:16 Some Hb mss, LXX, Syr; other Hb mss read me; like a lion my hands and my feet.22:16 Jn 20:25
17I can count all my bones;
people22:17 Lit they look and stare at me.22:17 Lk 23:35
18They divided my garments among themselves,
My strength, come quickly to help me.22:19 Ps 70:5
my only life22:20 Lit my only one from the power of these dogs.
from the horns of wild oxen.
You answered me!22:21 Or oxen you rescued me
22I will proclaim your name to my brothers and sisters;
All you descendants of Jacob, honor him!
All you descendants of Israel, revere him!22:23 Ps 135:20
24For he has not despised or abhorred
the torment of the oppressed.22:24 Ps 69:33
He did not hide his face from him22:24 Ezk 39:29
but listened when he cried to him for help.22:24 Ps 28:2
25I will give praise in the great assembly
I will fulfill my vows
before those who fear you.22:25 Lit him22:25 Ps 61:8
those who seek the Lord will praise him.
27All the ends of the earth will remember
and turn to the Lord.
All the families of the nations
28for kingship belongs to the Lord;
29All who prosper on earth will eat and bow down;
all those who go down to the dust
will kneel before him —
30Their descendants will serve him;
31They will come and declare his righteousness;
to a people yet to be born
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