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Chapter 22 |
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1 | My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken
me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my
roaring? |
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| O my God, I cry in the day time, but thou hearest not;
and in the night season, and am not silent. |
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3 | But thou art holy, O thou
that inhabitest the praises of Israel. |
| 4 | Our fathers trusted in thee:
they trusted, and thou didst deliver them. |
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5 | They cried unto thee, and
were delivered: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded. |
| 6 | But I
am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.
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| 7 | All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they
shake the head, saying, |
| 8 | He trusted on the LORD that he would deliver
him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him. |
| 9 | But thou art
he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope when I was upon my
mother's breasts. |
| 10 | I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou art
my God from my mother's belly. |
| 11 | Be not far from me; for
trouble is near; for there is none to help. |
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12 | Many bulls have
compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round. |
| 13 | They
gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion. |
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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. |
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15 | 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. |
| 16 | For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of
the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet. |
| 17 | I
may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me. |
| 18 | They part my
garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture. |
| 19 | But be not
thou far from me, O LORD: O my strength, haste thee to help me. |
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Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog.
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| 21 | Save me from the lion's mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of
the unicorns. |
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22 | I will declare thy name unto my brethren: in the
midst of the congregation will I praise thee. |
| 23 | Ye that fear
the LORD, praise him; all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him; and fear him, all
ye the seed of Israel. |
| 24 | 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. |
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25 | My praise shall be of thee in the
great congregation: I will pay my vows before them that fear him. |
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The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the LORD that seek him:
your heart shall live for ever. |
| 27 | All the ends of the world
shall remember and turn unto the LORD: and all the kindreds of the nations
shall worship before thee. |
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28 | For the kingdom is the LORD's: and he
is the governor among the nations. |
| 29 | 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. |
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30 | A seed shall serve him;
it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation. |
| 31 | They shall
come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born,
that he hath done this. |
