Psalms 22:6-25

⁶But I am a worm, and not a man; the shame of men, and the out-casting of the people.

⁷All men seeing me scorned me; they spake with lips, and wagged the head, and said,

⁸He hoped in the Lord, deliver he him; make he him safe, for he will or delights in him.

⁹For thou it art that drewest me out of the womb, that art mine hope from the teats of my mother;

¹⁰into thee I am cast forth from the womb. From the womb of my mother thou art my God;

¹¹depart thou not from me. For tribulation is next; for none there is that helpeth.

¹²Many calves encompassed me; fat bulls besieged me.

¹³They opened their mouth on me; as a lion ravishing and roaring.

¹⁴I am poured out as water; and all my bones be scattered. Mine heart is made, as wax floating abroad or melting; in the midst of my womb.

¹⁵My virtue dried as a tilestone, and my tongue cleaved to my cheeks; and thou hast brought forth me into the dust of death.

¹⁶For many dogs encompassed me; the council of wicked men besieged me. They delved mine hands and my feet;

¹⁷they numbered all my bones. Soothly they looked, and beheld me;

¹⁸they parted my clothes to them-selves, and they sent lot on my cloth.

¹⁹But thou, Lord, delay not thine help from me; behold thou to my defence.

²⁰God, deliver thou my life from sword; and deliver thou mine one alone from the hand, or power, of the dog.

²¹Make thou me safe from the mouth of a lion; and my meekness from the horns of unicorns.

²²I shall tell thy name to my brethren; I shall praise thee in the midst of the church.

²³Ye that dread the Lord, praise him; all the seed of Jacob, glorify him. All the seed of Israel, dread him;

²⁴for he forsook not, neither despised the prayer of a poor man. Neither he turned away his face from me; and when I cried to him, he heard me.

²⁵My praising is with thee in a great church; I shall yield my vows in the sight of men dreading him.