Psalms 22:2-25

²I cry in the day, you do not answer, I cry in the night but find no rest.

³You are the Holy One, throned on the praises of Israel.

⁴In you our ancestors trusted, they trusted and you delivered them.

⁵They cried to you, and found safety, in you did they trust and were not put to shame.

⁶But I am a worm, not a person; insulted by others, despised by the people.

⁷All who see me mock me, with mouths wide open and wagging heads:

⁸“He relies on the Lord; let him save him. Let him rescue the one he holds dear!”

⁹But you drew me from the womb, laid me safely on my mother's breasts.

¹⁰On your care was I cast from my very birth, you are my God from my mother's womb.

¹¹Be not far from me, for trouble is nigh, and there is none to help.

¹²I am circled by many bulls, beset by the mighty of Bashan,

¹³who face me with gaping jaws, like ravening roaring lions.

¹⁴Poured out am I like water, and all my bones are loosened. My heart is become like wax, melted within me.

¹⁵My palate is dry as a sherd, my tongue sticks to my jaws; in the dust of death you lay me.

¹⁶For dogs are round about me, a band of knaves encircles me, gnawing my hands and my feet.

¹⁷I can count my bones, every one. As for them, they feast their eyes on me.

¹⁸They divide my garments amongst them, and over my raiment cast lots.

¹⁹But you, O Lord, be not far, O my strength, hasten to help me.

²⁰Deliver my life from the sword my life from the power of the dogs.

²¹Save me from the jaws of the lion, from the horns of the wild oxen help me.

²²I will tell of your fame to my kindred, and in the assembly will praise you.

²³Praise the Lord, you who fear him. All Jacob's seed, give him glory. All Israel's seed, stand in awe of him.

²⁴For he has not despised nor abhorred the sorrow of the sorrowful. He hid not his face from me, but he listened to my cry for help.

²⁵Of you is my praise in the great congregation; my vows I will pay before those who fear him.