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Chapter 22  
     
1.
 My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? why art you so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?
  
2.
 O my God, I cry in the day time, but you hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.
  
3.
 But you art holy, O you that inhabitest the praises of Israel.
  
4.
 Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and you 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 you art he that took me out of the womb: you didst make me hope when I was upon my mother's breasts.
  
10.
 I was cast upon you from the womb: you 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 surrounded 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 you have brought me into the dust of death.
  
16.
 For dogs have surrounded 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 you far from me, O Lord: O my strength, haste you 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 you have 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.
 You that fear the Lord, praise him; all you the seed of Jacob, glorify him; and fear him, all you the seed of Israel.
  
24.
 For he has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither has he hid his face from him; but when he cried unto him, he heard.
  
25.
 My praise shall be of you 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 has done this.
  

 
 
 

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