Psalms 22
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Psalm 22
Plea for Deliverance from Suffering and Hostility
To the leader: according to The Deer of the Dawn. A Psalm of David.
1 #
Ps 10.1; Mt 27.46 My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
Why are you so far from helping me, from the words of my groaning?
2 #
Ps 42.3
O my God, I cry by day, but you do not answer;
and by night but find no rest.
3 #
Ps 35.8; 99.9 Yet you are holy,
enthroned on the praises of Israel.
4In you our ancestors trusted;
they trusted, and you delivered them.
5 #
Ps 25.2, 3; 107.6; Rom 9.33 To you they cried and were saved;
in you they trusted and were not put to shame.
6 #
Job 25.6; Isa 41.14; 49.7 But I am a worm and not human,
scorned by others and despised by the people.
7 #
Mt 27.39; Mk 15.29 All who see me mock me;
they sneer at me; they shake their heads;
8 #
Mt 27.43; Mk 1.11 “Commit your cause to the Lord; let him deliver—
let him rescue the one in whom he delights!”
9 #
Ps 71.6
Yet it was you who took me from the womb;
you kept me safe on my mother’s breast.
10 #
Isa 43.6
On you I was cast from my birth,
and since my mother bore me you have been my God.
11Do not be far from me,
for trouble is near,
and there is no one to help.
12 #
Deut 32.14; Ps 68.30 Many bulls encircle me;
strong bulls of Bashan surround me;
13 #
Ps 17.12; 35.21 they open wide their mouths at me,
like a ravening and roaring lion.
14 #
Job 30.16; Ps 31.10 I am poured out like water,
and all my bones are out of joint;
my heart is like wax;
it is melted within my breast;
15 #
Ps 38.10; 104.29; 137.6 my mouth#22.15 Cn: Heb strength is dried up like a potsherd,
and my tongue sticks to my jaws;
you lay me in the dust of death.
16 #
Ps 59.6; Mt 27.35 For dogs are all around me;
a company of evildoers encircles me;
they bound my hands and feet.#22.16 Meaning of Heb uncertain
17I can count all my bones.
They stare and gloat over me;
18 #
Mt 27.35
they divide my clothes among themselves,
and for my clothing they cast lots.
19But you, O Lord, do not be far away!
O my help, come quickly to my aid!
20 #
Ps 35.17
Deliver my soul from the sword,
my life#22.20 Heb my only one from the power of the dog!
21 #
v 13
; Ps 34.4Save me from the mouth of the lion!
From the horns of the wild oxen you have rescued#22.21 Heb answered me.
22 #
Heb 2.12
I will tell of your name to my brothers and sisters;#22.22 Or kindred
in the midst of the congregation I will praise you:
23 #
Ps 33.8; 86.12; 135.19 You who fear the Lord, praise him!
All you offspring of Jacob, glorify him;
stand in awe of him, all you offspring of Israel!
24 #
Ps 69.17; 102.17; Heb 5.7 For he did not despise or abhor
the affliction of the afflicted;
he did not hide his face from me#22.24 Heb him
but heard when I#22.24 Heb he cried to him.
25 #
Ps 35.18; 66.13 From you comes my praise in the great congregation;
my vows I will pay before those who fear him.
26 #
Ps 40.16; 69.32; 107.9 The poor#22.26 Or afflicted shall eat and be satisfied;
those who seek him shall praise the Lord.
May your hearts live forever!
27 #
Ps 2.8; 86.9 All the ends of the earth shall remember
and turn to the Lord,
and all the families of the nations
shall worship before him.#22.27 Gk Syr Jerome: Heb you
28 #
Ps 47.7, 8; Mt 6.13 For dominion belongs to the Lord,
and he rules over the nations.
29 #
Ps 95.6; Isa 27.13 To him,#22.29 Cn: Heb They have eaten and indeed, shall all who sleep in#22.29 Cn: Heb all the fat ones the earth bow down;
before him shall bow all who go down to the dust,
and I shall live for him.#22.29 Compare Gk Syr Vg: Heb and he who cannot keep himself alive
30 #
Ps 71.18; 102.28 Posterity will serve him;
future generations will be told about the Lord
31 #
Ps 78.6
and#22.31 Compare Gk: Heb it will be told about the Lord to the generation, 31they will come and proclaim his deliverance to a people yet unborn,
saying that he has done it.
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