|
|
|
Psalm 22
|
|
| 22:1
My God, my God, why
hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the
words of my roaring? |
(22:1-2) "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?"
Does God help in times of need?
|
| 22:2
O my God, I cry in the day time, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent. |
|
| 22:3
But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel. |
|
| 22:4
Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them. |
|
| 22:5
They cried unto thee, and were delivered: they trusted in thee, and were
not confounded. |
|
| 22:6
But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the
people. |
|
| 22:7
All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake
the head, saying, |
|
| 22:8
He trusted on the LORD that he would deliver him: let him deliver him,
seeing he delighted in him. |
|
| 22:9
But thou art he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope when
I was upon my mother's breasts. |
|
| 22:10
I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou art my God from my mother's
belly. |
|
| 22:11
Be not far from me; for trouble is near; for there is none to help. |
|
| 22:12
Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round. |
 Many calves have surrounded me."
(Unknown, 12th Century)
|
| 22:13
They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.
|
| 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.
|
| 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. |
|
| 22:16
For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me:
they pierced my hands and my feet. |
|
| 22:17
I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me. |
|
| 22:18
They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture. |
|
| 22:19
But be not thou far from me, O LORD: O my strength, haste thee to help me. |
|
| 22:20
Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog. |
|
| 22:21
Save me from the lion's mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the
unicorns. |
|
| 22:22
I will declare thy name unto my brethren: in the midst of the congregation
will I praise thee. |
|
| 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. |
|
| 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 unto him, he heard.
|
"When he cried unto him, he heard."
Does God help in time of need?
|
| 22:25
My praise shall be of thee in the great congregation: I will pay my vows
before them that fear him. |
|
| 22:26
The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the LORD that seek
him: your heart shall live for ever. |
|
| 22:27
All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the LORD: and all
the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee. |
|
| 22:28
For the kingdom is the LORD's: and he is the governor among the nations. |
|
| 22:29
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. |
|
| 22:30
A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a
generation. |
|
| 22:31
They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that
shall be born, that he hath done this.
|
|
|
Get the SAB