Psalm 22:1-15

Common English Bible

Psalm 22

For the music leader. According to the “Doe of Dawn.” A psalm of David.

22 My God! My God,
    why have you left me all alone?
    Why are you so far from saving me—
        so far from my anguished groans?
²My God, I cry out during the day,
    but you don’t answer;
    even at nighttime I don’t stop.
³You are the holy one, enthroned.
You are Israel’s praise.
⁴Our ancestors trusted you—
    they trusted you and you rescued them;
⁵    they cried out to you and they were saved;
    they trusted you and they weren’t ashamed.

⁶But I’m just a worm, less than human;
    insulted by one person, despised by another.
⁷All who see me make fun of me—
    they gape, shaking their heads:
⁸    “He committed himself to the Lord,
        so let God rescue him;
        let God deliver him
        because God likes him so much.”
⁹But you are the one who pulled me from the womb,
    placing me safely at my mother’s breasts.
¹⁰I was thrown on you from birth;
    you’ve been my God
    since I was in my mother’s womb.
¹¹Please don’t be far from me,
    because trouble is near
        and there’s no one to help.

¹²Many bulls surround me;
    mighty bulls from Bashan encircle me.
¹³They open their mouths at me
    like a lion ripping and roaring!
¹⁴I’m poured out like water.
    All my bones have fallen apart.
        My heart is like wax;
        it melts inside me.
¹⁵My strength is dried up
    like a piece of broken pottery.
My tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth;
    you’ve set me down in the dirt of death.