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Psalms 22

The psalm opens with the cry Jesus quoted on the cross: my God, why have you forsaken me? It describes mockery, pierced hands and feet and garments divided by lot, then turns to praise as the sufferer is heard and all the earth turns to the LORD.

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Key verses

  • Verse 1The cry of feeling abandoned by God, later on Jesus' lips.
  • Verse 16Pierced hands and feet, read by Christians as pointing to the cross.
  • Verse 18Clothes divided by lot, as happened at the crucifixion.

My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?SelectedPsalms 22:1Ask

O my God, I cry in the day time, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.SelectedPsalms 22:2Ask

But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel.SelectedPsalms 22:3Ask

Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them.SelectedPsalms 22:4Ask

They cried unto thee, and were delivered: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded.SelectedPsalms 22:5Ask

But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.SelectedPsalms 22:6Ask

All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,SelectedPsalms 22:7Ask

He trusted on the LORD that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.SelectedPsalms 22:8Ask

But thou art he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother’s breasts.SelectedPsalms 22:9Ask

I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou art my God from my mother’s belly.SelectedPsalms 22:10Ask

Be not far from me; for trouble is near; for there is none to help.SelectedPsalms 22:11Ask

Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.SelectedPsalms 22:12Ask

They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.SelectedPsalms 22:13Ask

I 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.SelectedPsalms 22:14Ask

My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.SelectedPsalms 22:15Ask

For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.SelectedPsalms 22:16Ask

I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me.SelectedPsalms 22:17Ask

They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.SelectedPsalms 22:18Ask

But be not thou far from me, O LORD: O my strength, haste thee to help me.SelectedPsalms 22:19Ask

Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog.SelectedPsalms 22:20Ask

Save me from the lion’s mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns.SelectedPsalms 22:21Ask

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

Ye that fear the LORD, praise him; all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him; and fear him, all ye the seed of Israel.SelectedPsalms 22:23Ask

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.SelectedPsalms 22:24Ask

My praise shall be of thee in the great congregation: I will pay my vows before them that fear him.SelectedPsalms 22:25Ask

The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the LORD that seek him: your heart shall live for ever.SelectedPsalms 22:26Ask

All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the LORD: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee.SelectedPsalms 22:27Ask

For the kingdom is the LORD’s: and he is the governor among the nations.SelectedPsalms 22:28Ask

All they that be fat upon 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.SelectedPsalms 22:29Ask

A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation.SelectedPsalms 22:30Ask

They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that he hath done this.SelectedPsalms 22:31Ask

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