Psalms 22 The Messiah Suffers, but Triumphs

 Psalms 22

The Messiah Suffers, but Triumphs

1 My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from the words of my roaring, and have not helped me?

2 My God, I cry out by day, but you do not hear; by night, and I have no rest.

3 But you are holy, inhabiting the praises of Israel.

4 Our fathers trusted in you; they trusted, and you delivered them.

5 To you they cried, and were saved; in you they trusted, and were not put to shame.

6 But I am a worm, and no man, a reproach to men, and despised by the people.

7 All who see me mock me; they stretch out their lips, they shake their heads, saying,

8 He trusted in the Lord; let him deliver him; let him deliver him, for he delights in him.

 9 But you are the one who took me from the womb, who preserved me while I was still at my mother's breasts.

10 I was cast upon you from the womb; you have been my God from my mother's belly.

11 Do not be far from me, for trouble is near, and there is no one to help.

12 Many bulls have surrounded me; the mighty bulls of Bashan have surrounded me.

13 They have opened their mouths wide against me, like a roaring lion that tears at me.

14 I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint; my heart is like wax; it has melted within me.

15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to my palate; and you have laid me in the dust of death.

16 For dogs have surrounded me; a company of evildoers have surrounded me; they have pierced my hands and my feet. 

17 I could count all my bones; they see and look at me.

18 They divide my garments among them, and cast lots for my clothing.

19 But you, O Lord, do not be far from me; my strength, make haste to help me.

20 Deliver my soul from the sword, my darling from the power of the dog.

21 Save me from the mouth of the lion; answer me from the horns of the unicorns.

22 Then I will declare your name to my brothers; in the midst of the congregation I will praise you.

23 You who fear the Lord, praise him; all you descendants of Jacob, glorify him; and fear him, all you descendants of Israel.

24 For he has not despised or abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, nor has he hidden his face from him; but when he cried, he heard him.

 25 My praise will come from you in the great assembly; I will pay my vows before those who fear him.

26 The meek will eat and be satisfied; those who seek him will praise the Lord; your heart will live forever.

27 All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to the Lord, and all generations will worship before you.

28 For the kingdom belongs to the Lord, and he rules over the nations.

29 All the great ones of the earth will eat and worship, and all who go down to the dust will bow down before him, and those who cannot keep their lives.

30 A seed will serve him; they will speak of the Lord from generation to generation.

31 They will come and declare his righteousness to a people who are born, because he has done it.