Psalms 22

DOUAI-RHEIMS	NEW JERUSALEM
1 Unto the end, for the morning protection, a psalm for David.	1 [For the choirmaster To 'the Doe of the Dawn' Psalm Of David] My God, my God, why have youforsaken me? The words of my groaning do nothing to save me.
2 O God my God, look upon me: why hast thou forsaken me? Far from my salvation are the words of my sins.	2 My God, I cal by day but you do not answer, at night, but I find no respite.
3 O my God, I shall cry by day, and thou wilt not hear: and by night, and it shall not be reputed as folly in me.	3 Yet you, the Holy One, who make your home in the praises of Israel,
4 But thou dwellest in the holy place, the praise of Israel.	4 in you our ancestors put their trust, they trusted and you set them free.
5 In thee have our fathers hoped: they have hoped, and thou hast delivered them.	5 To you they cal ed for help and were delivered; in you they trusted and were not put to shame.
6 They cried to thee, and they were saved: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded.	6 But I am a worm, less than human, scorn of mankind, contempt of the people;
7 But I am a worm, and no man: the reproach of men, and the outcast of the people.	7 al who see me jeer at me, they sneer and wag their heads,
8 All they that saw me have laughed me to scorn: they have spoken with the lips, and wagged the head.	8 'He trusted himself to Yahweh, let Yahweh set him free! Let him deliver him, as he took such delight inhim.'
9 He hoped in the Lord, let him deliver him: let him save him, seeing he delighteth in him.	9 It was you who drew me from the womb and soothed me on my mother's breast.
10 For thou art he that hast drawn me out of the womb: my hope from the breasts of my mother.	10 On you was I cast from my birth, from the womb I have belonged to you.
11 I was cast upon thee from the womb. From my mother's womb thou art my God,	11 Do not hold aloof, for trouble is upon me, and no one to help me!
12 depart not from me. For tribulation is very near: for there is none to help me.	12 Many bulls are encircling me, wild bul s of Bashan closing in on me.
13 Many calves have surrounded me: fat bulls have besieged me.	13 Lions ravening and roaring open their jaws at me.
14 They have opened their mouths against me, as a lion ravening and roaring.	14 My strength is trickling away, my bones are al disjointed, my heart has turned to wax, melting insideme.
15 I am poured out like water; and all my bones are scattered. My heart is become like wax melting in the midst of my bowels.	15 My mouth is dry as earthenware, my tongue sticks to my jaw. You lay me down in the dust of death.
16 My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue hath cleaved to my jaws: and thou hast brought me down into the dust of death.	16 A pack of dogs surrounds me, a gang of villains closing in on me as if to hack off my hands and myfeet.
17 For many dogs have encompassed me: the council of the malignant hath besieged me. They have dug my hands and feet.	17 I can count every one of my bones, while they look on and gloat;
18 They have numbered all my bones. And they have looked and stared upon me.	18 they divide my garments among them and cast lots for my clothing.
19 They parted my garments amongst them; and upon my vesture they cast lots.	19 Yahweh, do not hold aloof! My strength, come quickly to my help,
20 But thou, O Lord, remove not thy help to a distance from me; look towards my defence.	20 rescue my soul from the sword, the one life I have from the grasp of the dog!
21 Deliver, O God, my soul from the sword: my only one from the hand of the dog.	21 Save me from the lion's mouth, my poor life from the wild bul s' horns!
22 Save me from the lion's mouth; and my lowness from the horns of the unicorns.	22 I shal proclaim your name to my brothers, praise you in ful assembly:
23 I will declare thy name to my brethren: in the midst of the church will I praise thee.	23 'You who fear Yahweh, praise him! Al the race of Jacob, honour him! Revere him, all the race ofIsrael!'
24 Ye that fear the Lord, praise him: all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him.	24 For he has not despised nor disregarded the poverty of the poor, has not turned away his face, buthas listened to the cry for help.
25 Let all the seed of Israel fear him: because he hath not slighted nor despised the supplication of the poor man. Neither hath he turned away his face from me: and when I cried to him he heard me.	25 Of you is my praise in the thronged assembly, I wil perform my vows before al who fear him.
26 With thee is my praise in a great church: I will pay my vows in the sight of them that fear him.	26 The poor wil eat and be fil ed, those who seek Yahweh wil praise him, 'May your heart live for ever.'
27 The poor shall eat and shall be filled: and they shall praise the Lord that seek him: their hearts shall live for ever and ever.	27 The whole wide world wil remember and return to Yahweh, al the families of nations bow downbefore him.
28 All the ends of the earth shall remember, and shall be converted to the Lord: And all the kindreds of the Gentiles shall adore in his sight.	28 For to Yahweh, ruler of the nations, belongs kingly power!
29 For the kingdom is the Lord's; and he shall have dominion over the nations.	29 Al who prosper on earth wil bow before him, al who go down to the dust wil do reverence beforehim. And those who are dead,
30 All the fat ones of the earth have eaten and have adored: all they that go down to the earth shall fall before him.	30 their descendants wil serve him, wil proclaim his name to generations
31 And to him my soul shall live: and my seed shall serve him.	31 stil to come; and these will tel of his saving justice to a people yet unborn: he has fulfilled it.
32 There shall be declared to the Lord a generation to come: and the heavens shall shew forth his justice to a people that shall be born, which the Lord hath made.