Psalms 22:1-13 ▼

1 MY God, my God, why hast thou let me to live? and yet thou hast delayed my salvation from me, because of the words of my folly.

2 O my God, I call thee in the daytime but thou answerest me not; and in the night season thou abidest not with me.

3 For thou art holy, and Israel dwells under thy glory.

4 Our fathers trusted in thee; they trusted, and thou didst deliver them.

5 They cried unto thee and were delivered; they trusted in thee and were not confounded.

6 But I am a worm, and not a man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.

7 All they that saw me have laughed me to scorn; they shoot out with their lips, they shake their heads, saying,

8 He trusted in the LORD; let the LORD deliver him; let him save him, if he be delighted in him.

9 For thou art my trust since I came out of the womb, and my hope since I was upon my mother's breasts.

10 I was put under thy care from the womb; thou art my God 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 surrounded me: strong bulls of Bashan have besieged me.

13 Their mouths snarl against me, as a ravening and roaring lion.