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Psalm 22

Plea for Deliverance from Suffering and Hostility

To the leader: according to The Deer of the Dawn. A Psalm of David.

My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
    Why are you so far from helping me, from the words of my groaning?(A)

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34 At three o’clock Jesus cried out with a loud voice, “Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?” which means, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”[a](A)

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Footnotes

  1. 15.34 Other ancient authorities read made me a reproach

46 And about three o’clock Jesus cried with a loud voice, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” that is, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”(A)

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In the days of his flesh, Jesus[a] offered up prayers and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to the one who was able to save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverent submission.(A)

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  1. 5.7 Gk he

16 For dogs are all around me;
    a company of evildoers encircles me;
they bound my hands and feet.[a](A)

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  1. 22.16 Meaning of Heb uncertain

24 For my sighing comes like[a] my bread,
    and my groanings are poured out like water.(A)

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  1. 3.24 Heb before

44 Then he said to them, “These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you—that everything written about me in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms must be fulfilled.”(A)

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Psalm 43

Prayer to God in Time of Trouble

Vindicate me, O God, and defend my cause
    against an ungodly people;
from those who are deceitful and unjust,
    deliver me!(A)
For you are the God in whom I take refuge;
    why have you cast me off?
Why must I walk about mournfully
    because of the oppression of the enemy?(B)

O send out your light and your truth;
    let them lead me;
let them bring me to your holy hill
    and to your dwelling.(C)
Then I will go to the altar of God,
    to God my exceeding joy,
and I will praise you with the harp,
    O God, my God.(D)

Why are you cast down, O my soul,
    and why are you disquieted within me?
Hope in God, for I shall again praise him,
    my help and my God.(E)

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Psalm 10

Prayer for Deliverance from Enemies

[a]Why, O Lord, do you stand far off?
    Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?

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Footnotes

  1. 10.1 Psalms 9–10 were originally one psalm, as in the Greek and Latin traditions. In Hebrew, Psalms 9–10 formed an acrostic.

Keep your lives free from the love of money, and be content with what you have, for he himself has said, “I will never leave you or forsake you.”(A)

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11 Do not be far from me,
    for trouble is near,
    and there is no one to help.

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22 For the Lord will not cast away his people, for his great name’s sake, because it has pleased the Lord to make you a people for himself.(A)

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14 But I trust in you, O Lord;
    I say, “You are my God.”(A)
15 My times are in your hand;
    deliver me from the hand of my enemies and persecutors.(B)
16 Let your face shine upon your servant;
    save me in your steadfast love.(C)

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11 They say, “Pursue and seize that person
    whom God has forsaken,
    for there is no one to deliver.”(A)

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Book II

(Psalms 42–72)

Psalm 42

Longing for God and His Help in Distress

To the leader. A Maskil of the Korahites.

As a deer longs for flowing streams,
    so my soul longs for you, O God.(A)
My soul thirsts for God,
    for the living God.
When shall I come and behold
    the face of God?(B)

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44 In his anguish he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat became like great drops of blood falling down on the ground.]][a](A)

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  1. 22.44 Other ancient authorities lack 22.43 and 22.44

13 I bring near my deliverance; it is not far off,
    and my salvation will not tarry;
I will put salvation in Zion,
    for Israel my glory.(A)

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I am utterly spent and crushed;
    I groan because of the tumult of my heart.(A)

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28 For the Lord loves justice;
    he will not forsake his faithful ones.

The righteous shall be kept safe forever,
    but the children of the wicked shall be cut off.(A)

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While I kept silent, my body wasted away
    through my groaning all day long.(A)
For day and night your hand was heavy upon me;
    my strength was dried up[a] as by the heat of summer. Selah(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 32.4 Meaning of Heb uncertain