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Psalms 22:1-31 — My God, My God, Why Have You Forsaken Me?

Ps.22.1-31

¹For the choirmaster: according to “The Doe of the Dawn .” A psalm of David. ²My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you far from saving me, far from the words of my roaring? ³My God, I cry by day, but you do not answer, and by night, and I am not silent. ⁴Yet you are holy, enthroned on the praises of Israel. ⁵In you our fathers trusted; they trusted, and you delivered them. ⁶To you they cried out and escaped; in you they trusted and were not put to shame. ⁷But I am a worm and not a man, scorned by mankind and despised by the people. ⁸All who see me mock me; they sneer with their lips and shake their heads: ⁹“He has committed himself to Yahweh; let him rescue him; let him deliver him, since he delights in him.” ¹⁰For you are the one who brought me out from the womb, the one who made me trust at my mother's breasts. ¹¹On you I was cast from birth; from my mother's womb you have been my God. ¹²Do not be far from me, for trouble is near, for there is no helper. ¹³Many bulls surround me; mighty bulls of Bashan encircle me. ¹⁴They open wide their mouths against me, like a lion tearing and roaring. ¹⁵I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint; my heart has become like wax; it melts within me. ¹⁶My strength is dried up like a shard of earthenware, and my tongue sticks to my jaws; you set me in the dust of death. ¹⁷For dogs surround me; a company of evildoers closes in on me; like a lion, they are at my hands and my feet . ¹⁸I can count all my bones; they look, they stare at me. ¹⁹They divide my garments among them, and for my clothing they cast lots. ²⁰But you, Yahweh, do not be far off; O my strength, hurry to help me. ²¹Deliver my life from the sword, my only life from the power of the dog. ²²Save me from the lion's mouth; from the horns of the wild oxen you have answered me. ²³I will declare your name to my brothers; in the midst of the assembly I will praise you. ²⁴You who fear Yahweh, praise him! All offspring of Jacob, honor him! Stand in awe of him, all offspring of Israel. ²⁵For he has not despised or abhorred the affliction of the afflicted one, and he has not hidden his face from him; but when he cried to him, he heard. ²⁶From you comes my praise in the great assembly; I will pay my vows before those who fear him. ²⁷The humble will eat and be satisfied; those who seek him will praise Yahweh. May your hearts live forever! ²⁸All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to Yahweh, and all the families of the nations will bow down before you. ²⁹For kingship belongs to Yahweh, and he rules over the nations. ³⁰All the prosperous of the earth have eaten and worshiped; before him all who go down to the dust will bow down, even the one who could not keep himself alive. ³¹Offspring will serve him; it will be told of the Lord to the coming generation.

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4/11/2026

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