{"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/dbt/psalms/22","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-27T03:45:35.430Z"},"reference":{"translation":"DBT","book":"Psalms","bookSlug":"psalms","chapter":22,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":21,"nextChapter":23,"totalChapters":150,"totalVerses":31},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"{To the chief Musician. Upon Aijeleth-Shahar. A Psalm of David.} My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou far from my salvation, from the words of my groaning?"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"My God, I cry by day, and thou answerest not; and by night, and there is no rest for me:"},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"And thou art holy, thou that dwellest amid the praises of Israel."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"Our fathers confided in thee: they confided, and thou didst deliver them."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"They cried unto thee, and were delivered; they confided in thee, and were not confounded."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and the 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":"Commit it to Jehovah let him rescue him; let him deliver him, because he delighteth in him!"},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"But thou art he that took me out of the womb; thou didst make me trust, upon my mother's breasts."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"I was cast upon thee from the womb; thou art 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 encompassed me; Bashan's strong ones have beset me round."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"They gape upon me with their mouth, 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 become like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue cleaveth to my palate; and thou hast laid me in the dust of death."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"For dogs have encompassed me; an assembly of evil-doers have surrounded me: they pierced my hands and my feet."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"I may count all my bones. They look, they stare upon me;"},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"But thou, Jehovah, be not far from me; O my strength, haste thee to help me."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"Deliver my soul from the sword; my only one from the power of the dog;"},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"Save me from the lion's mouth. Yea, from the horns of the buffaloes hast thou answered me."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"I will declare thy name unto my brethren, in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee."},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"Ye that fear Jehovah, praise him; all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him; and revere him, all ye the seed of Israel."},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"For 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."},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"My praise is from thee, 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 Jehovah that seek him: your heart shall live for ever."},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn unto Jehovah, and all the families of the nations shall worship before thee:"},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"For the kingdom is Jehovah's, and he ruleth among the nations."},{"verseNumber":29,"text":"All the fat ones of the earth shall eat and worship; all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him, and he that cannot 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 unto a people that shall be born, that he hath done it."}],"citation":{"inline":"Psalms 22 (DBT)","markdown":"[Psalms 22](https://primebible.com/dbt/psalms/22)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* DBT. https://primebible.com/dbt/psalms/22 (accessed 2026-05-27)."}}