PSALMS 22:12-20

¹²Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.

¹³They gape upon me with their mouth, as a ravening and a roaring lion.

¹⁴I 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.

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

¹⁶For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of evil-doers have enclosed me; they pierced my hands and my feet.

¹⁷I may tell all my bones; they look and stare upon me:

¹⁸They part my garments among them, and upon my vesture do they cast lots.

¹⁹But be not thou far off, O LORD: O thou my succour, haste thee to help me.

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