Psalm 22/Text/CBC

My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?

Why are you far from my protection, from my words of groaning?

My God, I cry out by day but you don’t answer.

And by night, and I am not silent.

But you are holy,

the one sitting enthroned on Israel’s songs of praise.

Our ancestors trusted you;

they trusted and you rescued them.

They called to you, so that they escaped;

they trusted you and they were not disappointed.

But I am a worm and not a man;

I am scorned by mankind and despised by people.

Everyone who sees me mocks me;

they open their mouth wide;they shake (their) head.

“Commit (it) to YHWH! - Let him rescue him,

Let him deliver him because he is pleased with him.”

However, you are the one who took me out of the womb,

who made me feel secure upon my mother’s breasts.

I have been cast upon you from the womb;

you have been my God from my mother’s womb.

Don’t be far from me,

because trouble is near;

because there is no one helping.

Many bulls have surrounded me;

mighty ones of Bashan have surrounded me.

They have opened their mouth wide against me

like a mauling and roaring lion.

I am poured out like water

and all of my bones are disjointed;

my heart is like wax;

it is melted like wax in the midst of my interior.

My strength has dried up like a potsherd

and my tongue clings to the roof of my mouth

and you place me in the dust of death,

because dogs have surrounded me,

a company of evildoers has encompassed me,

they have pierced my hands and my feet.

I can count all of my bones;

they look, they gaze at me.

They divide my clothes among themselves

and cast a lot for my garment.

But you, YHWH, don’t be far!

My strength, hurry to my aid!

Rescue my life from a sword,

my only (life) from a dog’s power,

save me from a lion’s mouth!

And from wild oxen's horns - you answered me!

I will announce your name to my brothers;

I will praise you in the midst of the community.

You who fear YHWH: praise Him!

All you offspring of Jacob: honour Him!

And be in awe of him, all you offspring of Israel!

Because he has not regarded as worthless nor detestable the sufferer’s affliction

and he has not hidden his face from him

but he has heard when he cries to him for help.

My praise among a great community is from you;

I will fulfill my vows in the presence of those who fear Him;

The afflicted will eat and be satisfied;

those who seek him will praise YHWH.

May your heart live forever!

Let all of the ends of the earth consider so that they will turn to YHWH,

so that all of the families of the nations will worship before you,

because the kingdom is YHWH’s

and he rules over the nations.

All of the strong ones of the earth have eaten and worshipped;

all of those going down to dust will kneel before him

- that is, he will not have preserved his life.

Future generations will serve him;

it will be proclaimed concerning the Lord to the generation...

Let them come so that they tell his righteous deed

to a people being born - what he has done.