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Psalm 22 :: New International Version (NIV)

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:1 - [fn]For the director of music. To the tune of “The Doe of the Morning.” A psalm of David. My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, so far from my cries of anguish?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:2 - My God, I cry out by day, but you do not answer, by night, but I find no rest.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:3 - Yet you are enthroned as the Holy One; you are the one Israel praises.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:4 - In you our ancestors put their trust; they trusted and you delivered them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:5 - To you they cried out and were saved; 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 everyone, despised by the people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:7 - All who see me mock me; they hurl insults, shaking their heads.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:8 - “He trusts in the LORD,” they say, “let the LORD rescue him. Let him deliver him, since he delights in him.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:9 - Yet you brought me out of the womb; you made me trust in you, even at my mother’s breast.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:10 - From birth I was cast on you; from my mother’s womb you have been my God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:11 - Do not be far from me, for trouble is near and there is no one to help.

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:13 - Roaring lions that tear their prey open their mouths wide against me.

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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 has turned to wax; it has melted within me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:15 - My mouth[fn] is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth; you lay me in the dust of death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:16 - Dogs surround me, a pack of villains encircles me; they pierce[fn] my hands and my feet.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:17 - All my bones are on display; people stare and gloat over me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:18 - They divide my clothes among them and cast lots for my garment.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:19 - But you, LORD, do not be far from me. You are my strength; come quickly to help me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:20 - Deliver me from the sword, my precious life from the power of the dogs.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:21 - Rescue me from the mouth of the lions; save me from the horns of the wild oxen.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:22 - I will declare your name to my people; in the assembly I will praise you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:23 - You who fear the LORD, praise him! All you descendants of Jacob, honor him! Revere him, all you descendants of Israel!

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:24 - For he has not despised or scorned the suffering of the afflicted one; he has not hidden his face from him but has listened to his cry for help.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:25 - From you comes the theme of my praise in the great assembly; before those who fear you[fn] I will fulfill my vows.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:26 - The poor will eat and be satisfied; those who seek the LORD will praise him— may your hearts live forever!

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:27 - All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to the LORD, and all the families of the nations will bow down before him,

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:28 - for dominion belongs to the LORD and he rules over the nations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:29 - All the rich of the earth will feast and worship; all who go down to the dust will kneel before him— those who cannot keep themselves alive.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:30 - Posterity will serve him; future generations will be told about the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:31 - They will proclaim his righteousness, declaring to a people yet unborn: He has done it!
See the NIV Preface (Especially for Parenthesis, Brackets, & Asterisks).
NIV Footnotes
In Hebrew texts 22:1-31 is numbered 22:2-32.
Or night, and am not silent
Or Yet you are holy, / enthroned on the praises of Israel
Probable reading of the original Hebrew text; Masoretic Text strength
Dead Sea Scrolls and some manuscripts of the Masoretic Text, Septuagint and Syriac; most manuscripts of the Masoretic Text me, / like a lion
Hebrew him
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Psalm Chapter 22 — Additional Translations:

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