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| Chapter 22 | |
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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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| 2 | O my God, I cry in the day time, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent. | 
| 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. | 
| 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 1despised of 
the people.
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| 7 | All they 
that see me laugh me to 1scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, 
saying,
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| 8 | He 1trusted on 
the LORD that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in 
him.
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| 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. | 
| 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. | 
| 14 | 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. | 
| 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.
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| 17 | I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me. | 
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They 
part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.
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| 19 | But be not thou far from me, O LORD: O my strength, haste thee to help me. | 
| 20 | Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog. | 
| 21 | Save me from the lion's mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns. | 
| 22 | 
I will declare thy name unto 
my brethren: in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee.
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| 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 1afflicted; 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. | 
| 26 | 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. | 
| 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. | 
| 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. | 

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