Psalms 22

CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN	KING JAMES BIBLE
1 A Psalm of David. The Lord directs me, and nothing will be lacking to me.	1 My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?
2 He has settled me here, in a place of pasture. He has led me out to the water of refreshment.	2 O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.
3 He has converted my soul. He has led me away on the paths of justice, for the sake of his name.	3 But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel.
4 For, even if I should walk in the midst of the shadow of death, I will fear no evils. For you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they have given me consolation.	4 Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them.
5 You have prepared a table in my sight, opposite those who trouble me. You have anointed my head with oil, and my cup, which inebriates me, how brilliant it is!	5 They cried unto thee, and were delivered: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded.
6 And your mercy will follow me all the days of my life, and so may I dwell in the house of the Lord for length of days.	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 thou art he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother's breasts.
	10 I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou 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 compassed 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 thou hast brought me into the dust of death.
	16 For dogs have compassed 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 thou far from me, O LORD: O my strength, haste thee 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 thou hast 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 Ye that fear the LORD, praise him; all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him; and fear him, all ye the seed of Israel.
	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 unto him, he heard.
	25 My praise shall be of thee 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 hath done this.