Darby's English Translation

 

The Book of Psalms

 

Chapter 22

 

 

1.

 

{To the chief Musician. Upon Aijeleth-Shahar. A Psalm of David.} My łGod, my łGod, why hast thou forsaken me? [why art thou] far from my salvation, from the words of my groaning?

    
 
 

2.

 

My God, I cry by day, and thou answerest not; and by night, and there is no rest for me:

    
 
 

3.

 

And thou art holy, thou that dwellest amid the praises of Israel.

    
 
 

4.

 

Our fathers confided in thee: they confided, and thou didst deliver them.

    
 
 

5.

 

They cried unto thee, and were delivered; they confided in thee, and were not confounded.

    
 
 

6.

 

But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and the despised of the people.

    
 
 

7.

 

All they that see me laugh me to scorn; they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, [saying:]

    
 
 

8.

 

Commit it to Jehovah -- let him rescue him; let him deliver him, because he delighteth in him!

    
 
 

9.

 

But thou art he that took me out of the womb; thou didst make me trust, upon my mother's breasts.

    
 
 

10.

 

I was cast upon thee from the womb; thou art my łGod from my mother's belly.

    
 
 

11.

 

Be not far from me, for trouble is near; for there is none to help.

    
 
 

12.

 

Many bulls have encompassed me; Bashan's strong ones have beset me round.

    
 
 

13.

 

They gape upon me with their mouth, [as] a ravening and a roaring lion.

    
 
 

14.

 

I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is become like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.

    
 
 

15.

 

My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue cleaveth to my palate; and thou hast laid me in the dust of death.

    
 
 

16.

 

For dogs have encompassed me; an assembly of evil-doers have surrounded me: they pierced my hands and my feet.

    
 
 

17.

 

I may count all my bones. They look, they stare upon me;

    
 
 

18.

 

They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.

    
 
 

19.

 

But thou, Jehovah, be not far [from me]; O my strength, haste thee to help me.

    
 
 

20.

 

Deliver my soul from the sword; my only one from the power of the dog;

    
 
 

21.

 

Save me from the lion's mouth. Yea, from the horns of the buffaloes hast thou answered me.

    
 
 

22.

 

I will declare thy name unto my brethren, in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee.

    
 
 

23.

 

Ye that fear Jehovah, praise him; all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him; and revere him, all ye the seed of Israel.

    
 
 

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.

    
 
 

25.

 

My praise is from thee, in the great congregation; I will pay my vows before them that fear him.

    
 
 

26.

 

The meek shall eat and be satisfied; they shall praise Jehovah that seek him: your heart shall live for ever.

    
 
 

27.

 

All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn unto Jehovah, and all the families of the nations shall worship before thee:

    
 
 

28.

 

For the kingdom is Jehovah's, and he ruleth among the nations.

    
 
 

29.

 

All the fat ones of the earth shall eat and worship; all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him, and he that cannot keep alive his own soul.

    
 
 

30.

 

A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation.

    
 
 

31.

 

They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that he hath done [it].

    
 
 

Psalms 23

 

 

 

 

 
 
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