- Until the end. Concerning help in the morning. A Psalm. Pertaining to Dauid.
- God, my God, attend to me; why did you forsake me?
Far from my salvation are the words of my trespasses. - O my God, I will cry by day, and you will not listen,
and by night, and it is not madness to me. - But you, reside in a holy place,
[O] commendation of Israel. - In you our fathers hoped;
they hoped, and you rescued them. - To you they cried and were saved;
in you they hoped and were not put to shame. - But as for me, I am a worm and not human,
a disgrace to humanity and despised by people. - All who saw me mocked me;
they talked with the lips; they moved the head: - “He hoped in the Lord; let him rescue him;
let him save him, because he wanted him,” - because it was you who drew me from the belly,
my hope from my mother’s breasts. - On you I was cast from the womb;
from my mother’s belly you are my God. - Do not withdraw from me,
because affliction is near,
because there is no one helping. - Many calves encircled me;
fat bulls surrounded me; - they opened their mouth at me,
like a lion ravening and roaring. - Like water I was poured out,
and all my bones were scattered;
my heart became like wax
melting in the midst of my belly; - my strength was dried up like a potsherd,
and my tongue is stuck to my throat,
and to the dust of death you brought me down, - because many dogs encircled me,
a gathering of evildoers surrounded me.
They gouged my hands and feet; - I counted all my bones,
but they took note and observed me; - they divided my clothes among themselves,
and for my clothing they cast lots. - But you, O Lord, do not be putting my help far away!
Attend to my support! - Rescue my soul from the sword,
and from a dog’s claw my only-begotten! - Save me from a lion’s mouth,
and my lowliness from the horns of unicorns! - I will explain your name to my kindred;
in the midst of an assembly I will sing a hymn to you: - You fearing the Lord, praise him!
Every seed of Iakob, glorify him;
let all the seed of Israel fear him, - because he did not despise or scorn
the petition of the poor,
nor did he turn away his face from me,
and when I cried to him, he listened to me. - From you comes my commendation in a great assembly;
my vows I will pay before those fearing him. - The needy will eat and be filled,
and those seeking him will praise the Lord;
their hearts will live forever and ever! - All the ends of the earth will remember
and turn to the Lord,
and all the paternal families of the nations
will do obeisance before him, - because the kingdom is the Lord’s,
and it is he who masters the nations. - All the fat ones of the earth ate and did obeisance;
all descending to the earth will fall down before him.
And my soul lives for him, - and my seed will serve him;
the coming generation will be announced to the Lord, - and they shall announce his righteousness
to a people to be born, because the Lord acted.
(The Greek Septuagint (LXX) numbers this ‘Psalm 21’, the Hebrew Masoretic Text (MT) numbers it ‘Psalm 22’,)