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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)
O my God, I cry by day, but you do not answer;
    and by night but find no rest.(B)

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Yet it was you who took me from the womb;
    you kept me safe on my mother’s breast.(A)
10 On you I was cast from my birth,
    and since my mother bore me you have been my God.(B)

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24 For he did not despise or abhor
    the affliction of the afflicted;
he did not hide his face from me[a]
    but heard when I[b] cried to him.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 22.24 Heb him
  2. 22.24 Heb he