Psalm 22

International Standard Version

³ You are holy,
    enthroned on the praises of Israel.
⁴ Our ancestors trusted in you;
    they trusted and you delivered them.
⁵ They cried out to you and escaped;
    they trusted in you and were not put to shame.

⁶ But as for me,
    I am only a worm and not a man,
        scorned by mankind and despised by people.
⁷ Everyone who sees me mocks me;
    they gape at me with open mouths
        and shake their heads at me.
⁸ They say,^[c] “Commit yourself to the Lord;
    perhaps the Lord^[d] will deliver him,
perhaps he will cause him to escape,
    since he delights in him.”

⁹ Yet, you are the one who took me from the womb,
    and kept me safe on my mother’s breasts.
¹⁰ I was dependent on you from birth;
    from my mother’s womb you have been my God.
¹¹ Do not be so distant from me,
    for trouble is at hand;
        indeed, there is no deliverer.

¹² Many bulls have surrounded me;
    the vicious bulls of Bashan have encircled me.
¹³ Their mouths are opened wide toward me,
    like roaring and attacking lions.

¹⁴ I am poured out like water;
    all my bones are out of joint.
        My heart is like wax, melting within me.
¹⁵ My strength is dried up like broken pottery;
    my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth,^[e]
        and you have brought me down to the dust of death.

¹⁶ For dogs have surrounded me;
    a gang of those who practice evil has encircled me.
        They gouged^[f] my hands and my^[g] feet.
¹⁷ I can count all my bones.
    They look at me;
        they stare at me.
¹⁸ They divide my clothing among themselves;
    they cast lots for my clothing!

¹⁹ But as for you, Lord, do not be far away from me;
    My Strength, come quickly to help me.
²⁰ Deliver me from the sword;
    my precious life from the power of the dog.
²¹ Deliver me from the mouth of the lion,
    from the horns of the wild oxen.

You have answered me.

²² I will declare your name to my brothers;
    in the midst of the congregation, I will praise you, saying,^[h]
23 “All who fear the Lord, praise him!
    All the seed of Jacob, glorify him!
All the seed of Israel, fear him!
²⁴ For he does not despise nor detest the afflicted person;
he does not hide his face from him,
    but he hears him when he cries out to him.”

²⁵ My praise in the great congregation is because of you;
    I will pay my vows before those who fear you.^[i]
26 The afflicted will eat and be satisfied;
    those who seek the Lord will praise him,
        “May you^[j] live forever!”

²⁷ All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to the Lord;
    all the families of the nations will bow in submission to the Lord.
²⁸ Indeed, the kingdom belongs to the Lord;
    he rules over the nations.
²⁹ All the prosperous people will eat and bow down in submission.
    All those who are about to go down to the grave^[k]
        will bow down in submission,
    along with the one who can no longer keep himself alive.
³⁰ Our^[l] descendants will serve him,
    and that generation will be told about the Lord.
³¹ They will come and declare his righteousness
    to a people yet to be born;
        indeed, he has accomplished it!