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To the chief Musician upon Aijeleth Shahar, A Psalm of David. 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)

O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent (22:2)

But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel (22:3)

Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them (22:4)

They cried unto thee, and were delivered: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded (22:5)

But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people (22:6)

All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying (22:7)

He trusted on the Lord that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him (22:8)

But thou art he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother's breasts (22:9)

I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou art my God from my mother's belly (22:10)

Be not far from me; for trouble is near; for there is none to help (22:11)

Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round (22:12)

They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion (22:13)

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 (22:14)

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 (22:15)

For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have enclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet (22:16)

I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me (22:17)

They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture (22:18)

But be not thou far from me, O Lord: O my strength, haste thee to help me (22:19)

Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog (22:20)

Save me from the lion's mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns (22:21)

I will declare thy name unto my brethren: in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee (22:22)

Ye that fear the Lord, praise him; all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him; and fear him, all ye the seed of Israel (22:23)

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 (22:24)

My praise shall be of thee in the great congregation: I will pay my vows before them that fear him (22:25)

The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the Lord that seek him: your heart shall live for ever (22:26)

All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the Lord: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee (22:27)

For the kingdom is the Lord'S: and he is the governor among the nations (22:28)

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 (22:29)

A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation (22:30)

They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that he hath done this (22:31)

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