PSALMS 22:9-25

⁹But thou art he that took me out the womb: thou didst make me trust when I was upon my mother’s breasts.

¹⁰I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou art my God from my mother’s belly.

¹¹Be not far from me; for trouble is near; for there is none to help.

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;

²¹Save me from the lion’s mouth; yea, from the horns of the wild-oxen thou hast answered me.

²²I will declare thy name unto my brethren: in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee.

²³Ye that fear the LORD, praise him; all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him; and stand in awe of him, all ye the seed of Israel.

²⁴For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him; but when he cried unto him, he heard.

²⁵Of thee cometh my praise in the great congregation: I will pay my vows before them that fear him.