{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/kjv/psa022.htm","path":"bib/kjv/psa022.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/kjv/psa022.htm","text":"1\u00a0My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?\n \n2\u00a0O my God, I cry in the day time, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.\n \n3\u00a0But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel.\n \n4\u00a0Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them.\n \n5\u00a0They cried unto thee, and were delivered: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded.\n \n6\u00a0But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.\n \n7\u00a0All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,\n \n8\u00a0He trusted on the LORD that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.\n \n9\u00a0But thou art he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother's breasts.\n \n10\u00a0I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou art my God from my mother's belly.\n \n11\u00a0Be not far from me; for trouble is near; for there is none to help.\n \n12\u00a0Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.\n \n13\u00a0They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.\n \n14\u00a0I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.\n \n15\u00a0My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.\n \n16\u00a0For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.\n \n17\u00a0I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me.\n \n18\u00a0They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.\n \n19\u00a0But be not thou far from me, O LORD: O my strength, haste thee to help me.\n \n20\u00a0Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog.\n \n21\u00a0Save me from the lion's mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns.\n \n22\u00a0I will declare thy name unto my brethren: in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee.\n \n23\u00a0Ye that fear the LORD, praise him; all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him; and fear him, all ye the seed of Israel.\n \n24\u00a0For 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.\n \n25\u00a0My praise shall be of thee in the great congregation: I will pay my vows before them that fear him.\n \n26\u00a0The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the LORD that seek him: your heart shall live for ever.\n \n27\u00a0All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the LORD: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee.\n \n28\u00a0For the kingdom is the LORD's: and he is the governor among the nations.\n \n29\u00a0All they that be fat upon earth shall eat and worship: all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him: and none can keep alive his own soul.\n \n30\u00a0A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation.\n \n31\u00a0They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that he hath done this.","title":"King James Version: Psalms: Psalms Chapter 22","type":"page"}