Psalm 22:1-16

Complete Jewish Bible

22 ⁽⁰⁾For the leader. Set to “Sunrise.” A psalm of David:

²⁽¹⁾My God! My God!
Why have you abandoned me?
Why so far from helping me,
so far from my anguished cries?

³⁽²⁾My God, by day I call to you,
but you don’t answer;
likewise at night,
but I get no relief.
⁴⁽³⁾Nevertheless, you are holy,
enthroned on the praises of Isra’el.
⁵⁽⁴⁾In you our ancestors put their trust;
they trusted, and you rescued them.
⁶⁽⁵⁾They cried to you and escaped;
they trusted in you and were not disappointed.

⁷⁽⁶⁾But I am a worm, not a man,
scorned by everyone, despised by the people.
⁸⁽⁷⁾All who see me jeer at me;
they sneer and shake their heads:
⁹⁽⁸⁾“He committed himself to Adonai,
so let him rescue him!
Let him set him free
if he takes such delight in him!”

¹⁰⁽⁹⁾But you are the one who took me from the womb,
you made me trust when I was on my mother’s breasts.
¹¹⁽¹⁰⁾Since my birth I’ve been thrown on you;
you are my God from my mother’s womb.
¹²⁽¹¹⁾Don’t stay far from me, for trouble is near;
and there is no one to help.
¹³⁽¹²⁾Many bulls surround me,
wild bulls of Bashan close in on me.
¹⁴⁽¹³⁾They open their mouths wide against me,
like ravening, roaring lions.
¹⁵⁽¹⁴⁾I am poured out like water;
all my bones are out of joint;
my heart has become like wax —
it melts inside me;
¹⁶⁽¹⁵⁾my mouth is as dry as a fragment of a pot,
my tongue sticks to my palate;
you lay me down in the dust of death.