| Chapter 22 |
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\22:1\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? |
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\22:2\O my God, I cry in the day-time, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent. |
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\22:3\But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel. |
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\22:4\Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them. |
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\22:5\They cried to thee, and were delivered: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded. |
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\22:6\But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised by the people. |
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\22:7\All they that see me deride me: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying, |
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\22:8\He trusted on the LORD that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him. |
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\22:9\But thou art he that brought me forth into life: thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother's breasts. |
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\22:10\I was cast upon thee from my birth: thou art my God from the time I was born. |
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\22:11\Be not far from me; for trouble is near; for there is none to help. |
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\22:12\Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round. |
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\22:13\They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion. |
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\22:14\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. |
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\22:15\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. |
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\22:16\For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet. |
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\22:17\I may number all my bones: they look and stare upon me. |
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\22:18\They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture. |
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\22:19\But be not thou far from me, O LORD: O my strength, haste thee to help me. |
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\22:20\Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog. |
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\22:21\Save me from the lion's mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns. |
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\22:22\I will declare thy name to my brethren: in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee. |
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\22:23\Ye that fear the LORD, praise him; all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him; and fear him, all ye the seed of Israel. |
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\22:24\For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him; but when he cried to him, he heard. |
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\22:25\My praise shall be of thee in the great congregation: I will pay my vows before them that fear him. |
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\22:26\The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the LORD that seek him: your heart shall live for ever. |
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\22:27\All the ends of the world shall remember and turn to the LORD: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee. |
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\22:28\For the kingdom is the LORD'S: and he is the governor among the nations. |
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\22:29\All they that are 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. |
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\22:30\A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation. |
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\22:31\They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness to a people that shall be born, that he hath done this. |