LEB PSA Chapter 22

Suffering and Waiting for Deliverance

• 22 My God, my God why have you forsaken me? Why are you far from helping me, far from the words of my groaning?
• 2 O my God, I call by day and you do not answer, and by night but I have no rest.[fn]
• 3 Yet you are holy, enthroned on the praises of Israel.
• 4 Our ancestors[fn] trusted you; they trusted and you delivered them.
• 5 They cried to you and were saved; they trusted you and were not ashamed.
• 6 But I am a worm and not a man, scorned by humankind and despised by people.
• 7 All who see me mock me. They open wide their lips;
• they shake the head, saying:
• 8 “ He trusts Yahweh .[fn] Let him rescue him. Let him deliver him because he delights in him.”
• 9 Yet you took me from the belly; you made me trust while on my mother’s breasts.
• 10 On you I was cast from the womb. From my mother’s belly you have been my God.
• 11 Do not be far from me because trouble is near;
• because there is no helper.
• 12 Many bulls have encircled me; mighty bulls of Bashan have surrounded me.
• 13 They open their mouth against me like a lion tearing and roaring.
• 14 I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint.
• My heart is like wax;
• it is melted within me .[fn]
• 15 My strength is dry like a potsherd, and my tongue is sticking to my jaws;
• and you have placed me in the dust of death.
• 16 Because dogs have surrounded me; a gang of evildoers has encircled me.
• Like the lion[fn] they are at my hands and my feet.
• 17 I can count all my bones; they gaze, they look at me.
• 18 They divide my garments among them, and for my clothing they cast lots.[fn]
• 19 But you, O Yahweh, do not remain distant. O my help, hasten to help me.
• 20 Rescue my life from the sword, my only life from the power of the dogs.[fn]
• 21 Save me from the mouth of the lion, and from the horns of the wild oxen answer me.
• 22 I will tell your name to my brothers; inside the assembly I will praise you.
• 23 You who revere Yahweh, praise him! Glorify him, all you seed of Jacob,
• and be in awe of him, all you seed of Israel,
• 24 because he has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, and has not hid his face from him;
• but he listened to him when he cried for help.
• 25 From you is my praise. In the great assembly,
• I will pay my vows before those who revere him.
• 26 The afflicted will eat and will be satisfied. Those who seek him will praise Yahweh.
• May your[fn] heart live forever.
• 27 All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to Yahweh.
• All the families of the nations
• will worship before you.
• 28 Because the kingship belongs to Yahweh, and he rules over the nations.
• 29 All the healthy ones[fn] of the earth will eat and worship. Before him all of those descending into the dust will kneel,
• even he who cannot keep his soul alive.
• 30 Descendants[fn] will serve him. Regarding the Lord, it will be told to the next generation.
• 31 They will come and tell his saving[fn] deeds to a people yet to be born, that he has done it.