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Psalm 22 :: English Standard Version (ESV)

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Why Have You Forsaken Me?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:1 - To the choirmaster: according to The Doe of the Dawn. A Psalm of David.
My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
Why are you so far from saving me, from the words of my groaning?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:2 - O my God, I cry by day, but you do not answer,
and by night, but I find no rest.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:3 - Yet you are holy,
enthroned on the praises[fn] of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:4 - In you our fathers trusted;
they trusted, and you delivered them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:5 - To you they cried and were rescued;
in you they trusted and were not put to shame.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:6 - But I am a worm and not a man,
scorned by mankind and despised by the people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:7 - All who see me mock me;
they make mouths at me; they wag their heads;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:8 - “He trusts in the LORD; let him deliver him;
let him rescue him, for he delights in him!”

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:9 - Yet you are he who took me from the womb;
you made me trust you at my mother’s breasts.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:10 - On you was I cast from my birth,
and from my mother’s womb you have been my God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:11 - Be not far from me,
for trouble is near,
and there is none to help.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:12 - Many bulls encompass me;
strong bulls of Bashan surround me;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:13 - they open wide their mouths at me,
like a ravening and roaring lion.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:14 - 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;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:15 - my strength is dried up like a potsherd,
and my tongue sticks to my jaws;
you lay me in the dust of death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:16 - For dogs encompass me;
a company of evildoers encircles me;
they have pierced my hands and feet[fn]—

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:17 - I can count all my bones—
they stare and gloat over me;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:18 - they divide my garments among them,
and for my clothing they cast lots.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:19 - But you, O LORD, do not be far off!
O you my help, come quickly to my aid!

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:20 - Deliver my soul from the sword,
my precious life from the power of the dog!

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:21 - Save me from the mouth of the lion!
You have rescued[fn] me from the horns of the wild oxen!

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:22 - I will tell of your name to my brothers;
in the midst of the congregation I will praise you:

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:23 - You who fear the LORD, praise him!
All you offspring of Jacob, glorify him,
and stand in awe of him, all you offspring of Israel!

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:24 - For he has not despised or abhorred
the affliction of the afflicted,
and he has not hidden his face from him,
but has heard, when he cried to him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:25 - From you comes my praise in the great congregation;
my vows I will perform before those who fear him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:26 - The afflicted[fn] shall eat and be satisfied;
those who seek him shall praise the LORD!
May your hearts live forever!

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:27 - All the ends of the earth shall remember
and turn to the LORD,
and all the families of the nations
shall worship before you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:28 - For kingship belongs to the LORD,
and he rules over the nations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:29 - All the prosperous of the earth eat and worship;
before him shall bow all who go down to the dust,
even the one who could not keep himself alive.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:30 - Posterity shall serve him;
it shall be told of the Lord to the coming generation;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:31 - they shall come and proclaim his righteousness to a people yet unborn,
that he has done it.
See the ESV Preface (Especially for Parenthesis, Brackets, & Asterisks).
ESV Footnotes
Or dwelling in the praises
Some Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint, Vulgate, Syriac; most Hebrew manuscripts like a lion [they are at] my hands and feet
Hebrew answered
Or The meek
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