21:0 ^[128] KJV Chapter [22] To the chief Musician upon Aijeleth Shahar, A Psalm of David:

21:1 My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? [why art thou so] far from helping me, [and from] the words of my roaring:

21:2 O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent:

21:3 But thou [art] holy, [O thou] that inhabitest the praises of Israel:

21:4 Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them:

21:5 They cried unto thee, and were delivered: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded:

21:6 But I [am] a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people:

21:7 All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head:

21:8 He trusted on the LORD [that] he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him:

21:9 But thou [art] he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope [when I was] upon my mother' s breasts:

21:10 I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou [art] my God from my mother' s belly:

21:11 Be not far from me; for trouble [is] near; for [there is] none to help:

21:12 Many bulls have compassed me: strong [bulls] of Bashan have beset me round:

21:13 They gaped upon me [with] their mouths, [as] a ravening and a roaring lion:

21:14 I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels:

21:15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death:

21:16 For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet:

21:17 I may tell all my bones: they look [and] stare upon me:

21:18 They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture:

21:19 But be not thou far from me, O LORD: O my strength, haste thee to help me:

21:20 Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog:

21:21 Save me from the lion' s mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns:

21:22 I will declare thy name unto my brethren: in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee:

21:23 Ye that fear the LORD, praise him; all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him; and fear him, all ye the seed of Israel:

21:24 For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him; but when he cried unto him, he heard:

21:25 My praise [shall be] of thee in the great congregation: I will pay my vows before them that fear him:

21:26 The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the LORD that seek him: your heart shall live for ever:

21:27 All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the LORD: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee:

21:28 For the kingdom [is] the LORD' S: and he [is] the governor among the nations:

21:29 All [they that be] fat upon earth shall eat and worship: all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him: and none can keep alive his own soul:

21:30 A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation:

21:31 They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that he hath done: