Sunday, January 23, 2011

Psalm 22

[22:1] My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? {Matthew 27:46 / Mark 15:34}
Why are you so far from saving me, from the words of my groaning?
  [2] O my God, I cry by day, but you do not answer,
and by night, but I find no rest. {Luke 22:39-46}

[3] Yet you are holy,
enthroned on the praises of Israel.
  [4] In you our fathers trusted;
they trusted, and you delivered them.
  [5] To you they cried and were rescued;
in you they trusted and were not put to shame.

[6] But I am a worm and not a man,
scorned by mankind and despised by the people.
  [7] All who see me mock me;
they make mouths at me; they wag their heads;
  [8] “He trusts in the LORD; let him deliver him;
let him rescue him, for he delights in him!” {Matthew 27:39-44 / Luke 23:35-38 / Mark 15:29-33}

[9] Yet you are he who took me from the womb;
you made me trust you at my mother's breasts.
  [10] On you was I cast from my birth,
and from my mother's womb you have been my God.
  [11] Be not far from me,
for trouble is near,
and there is none to help.

[12] Many bulls encompass me;
strong bulls of Bashan surround me;
  [13] they open wide their mouths at me,
like a ravening and roaring lion.

[14] I am poured out like water, {John 19:34}
and all my bones are out of joint;
my heart is like wax;
it is melted within my breast;
  [15] my strength is dried up like a potsherd,
and my tongue sticks to my jaws;
you lay me in the dust of death.

[16] For dogs encompass me;
a company of evildoers encircles me;
they have pierced my hands and feet—
  [17] I can count all my bones—
they stare and gloat over me;
  [18] they divide my garments among them,
and for my clothing they cast lots. {John 19:24 / Matthew 27:35 / Luke 23:34}

[19] But you, O LORD, do not be far off!
O you my help, come quickly to my aid!
  [20] Deliver my soul from the sword,
my precious life from the power of the dog!
  [21] Save me from the mouth of the lion!
You have rescued me from the horns of the wild oxen!

[22] I will tell of your name to my brothers;
in the midst of the congregation I will praise you:
  [23] You who fear the LORD, praise him!
All you offspring of Jacob, glorify him,
and stand in awe of him, all you offspring of Israel!
  [24] For he has not despised or abhorred
the affliction of the afflicted,
and he has not hidden his face from him,
but has heard, when he cried to him.

[25] From you comes my praise in the great congregation;
my vows I will perform before those who fear him.
  [26] The afflicted shall eat and be satisfied;
those who seek him shall praise the LORD!
May your hearts live forever!

[27] All the ends of the earth shall remember
and turn to the LORD,
and all the families of the nations
shall worship before you.
  [28] For kingship belongs to the LORD,
and he rules over the nations.

[29] All the prosperous of the earth eat and worship;
before him shall bow all who go down to the dust,
even the one who could not keep himself alive.
  [30] Posterity shall serve him;
it shall be told of the Lord to the coming generation;
  [31] they shall come and proclaim his righteousness to a people yet unborn,
that he has done it.
 (Psalm 22 ESV)

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