Psalm 22

	My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?          Why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?
	O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not;          and in the night season, and am not silent.
	But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel.
	Our fathers trusted in thee:          they trusted, and thou didst deliver them.
	They cried unto thee, and were delivered:          they trusted in thee, and were not confounded.
	But I am a worm, and no man;          a reproach of men, and despised of the people.
	All they that see me laugh me to scorn:          they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,
	He trusted on the LORD that he would deliver him:          let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.
	But thou art he that took me out of the womb:          thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother's breasts.
	I was cast upon thee from the womb:          thou art my God from my mother's belly.
	Be not far from me; for trouble is near;          for there is none to help.
	Many bulls have compassed me:          strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.
	They gaped upon me with their mouths,          as a ravening and a roaring lion.
	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.
	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.
	For dogs have compassed me:          the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.
	I may tell all my bones:          they look and stare upon me.
	They part my garments among them,          and cast lots upon my vesture.
	But be not thou far from me, O LORD:          O my strength, haste thee to help me.
	Deliver my soul from the sword;          my darling from the power of the dog.
	Save me from the lion's mouth:          for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns.
	I will declare thy name unto my brethren:          in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee.
	Ye that fear the LORD, praise him;          all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him; and fear him, all ye the seed of Israel.
	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.
	My praise shall be of thee in the great congregation:          I will pay my vows before them that fear him.
	The meek shall eat and be satisfied:          they shall praise the LORD that seek him: your heart shall live for ever.
	All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the LORD:          and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee.
	For the kingdom is the LORD's:          and he is the governor among the nations.
	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.
	A seed shall serve him;          it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation.
	They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness          unto a people that shall be born, that he hath done this.