{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/akjv/psalms/22","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-30T14:55:14.176Z"},"reference":{"translation":"AKJV","book":"Psalms","bookSlug":"psalms","chapter":22,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":21,"nextChapter":23,"totalChapters":150,"totalVerses":31},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"O my God, I cry in the day time, but you hear not; and in the night season, and am not silent."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"But you are holy, O you that inhabit the praises of Israel."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"Our fathers trusted in you: they trusted, and you did deliver them."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"They cried to you, and were delivered: they trusted in you, and were not confounded."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,"},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"He trusted on the LORD that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"But you are he that took me out of the womb: you did make me hope when I was on my mother's breasts."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"I was cast on you from the womb: you are my God from my mother's belly."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"Be not far from me; for trouble is near; for there is none to help."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"They gaped on me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the middle of my bowels."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue sticks to my jaws; and you have brought me into the dust of death."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have enclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"I may tell all my bones: they look and stare on me."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"They part my garments among them, and cast lots on my clothing."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"But be not you far from me, O LORD: O my strength, haste you to help me."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"Save me from the lion's mouth: for you have heard me from the horns of the unicorns."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"I will declare your name to my brothers: in the middle of the congregation will I praise you."},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"You that fear the LORD, praise him; all you the seed of Jacob, glorify him; and fear him, all you the seed of Israel."},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"For he has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither has he hid his face from him; but when he cried to him, he heard."},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"My praise shall be of you in the great congregation: I will pay my vows before them that fear him."},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the LORD that seek him: your heart shall live for ever."},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"All the ends of the world shall remember and turn to the LORD: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before you."},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"For the kingdom is the LORD's: and he is the governor among the nations."},{"verseNumber":29,"text":"All they that be fat on earth shall eat and worship: all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him: and none can keep alive his own soul."},{"verseNumber":30,"text":"A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation."},{"verseNumber":31,"text":"They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness to a people that shall be born, that he has done this."}],"citation":{"inline":"Psalms 22 (AKJV)","markdown":"[Psalms 22](https://primebible.com/akjv/psalms/22)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* AKJV. https://primebible.com/akjv/psalms/22 (accessed 2026-05-30)."}}