Psalms 22:16-31

¹⁶My enemies MET surround me like a pack/group of wild dogs. A group of evil men has encircled me, ready to attack me. They have already smashed my hands and my feet.

¹⁷I am so weak and thin that my bones can be seen and counted. My enemies stare at me and ◄gloat/are happy► about what has happened to me.

¹⁸They looked at the clothes that I was wearing and gambled to determine which piece each of them would get.

¹⁹O Yahweh, do not stay far away from me! You who are my source of strength, come quickly and help me!

²⁰Rescue me from those who want to kill me with their swords. Save me from those who are like wild/fierce dogs MET.

²¹Snatch me away from my enemies who are like lions whose jaws are already open, ready to chew me up Grab me away from those men who are like wild oxen that attack other animals with their horns MET!

²²But you have saved me, so I will declare to my fellow Israelis how great you MTY are. I will praise you among the group of your people gathered together to worship you.

²³You people who have an awesome respect for Yahweh, praise him! All you who are descended from Jacob, honor Yahweh! All you Israeli people, revere him!

²⁴He does not despise or ignore those who are suffering; he does not hide ◄his face/himself► from them. He has listened to them when they cried out to him for help.

²⁵Yahweh, in the great gathering of your people, I will praise you for what you have done. In the presence of those who revere you, I will offer the sacrifices that I promised.

²⁶The poor people whom I have invited to the meal will eat as much as they want. All who come worship Yahweh will praise him. I pray that God will enable you all to live a long and happy life!

²⁷I pray that people in all nations, even in the remote areas, will think about Yahweh and turn to him, and that people from all the clans in the world will bow down before him.

²⁸Because Yahweh is the king! He rules all the nations.

²⁹I desire that all the rich people on the earth will bow before him. Some day they will die, but I want them to prostrate themselves on the ground in his presence before they die.

³⁰People ◄in the future generations/who have not been born yet► will also serve Yahweh. Our descendants will be told about what Yahweh has done.

³¹People who are not yet born, who will live in future years, will be told how Yahweh rescued his people. People will tell them, “Yahweh did it!”