Book of Psalms, No. 22
Psalms 22 NWT - New World TranslationNo. 22 of the Psalms—New World Translation (NWT)
- ¶ My God, my God, why have you left me?[a]1
[Why are you] far from saving me,2
[From] the words of my roaring?[b]3 - ¶ O my God,[c] I keep calling by day, and you do not answer;4
And by night, and there is no silence on my part.5 - ¶ But you are holy,6
Inhabiting the praises of Israel.7 - ¶ In you our fathers trusted;8
They trusted, and you kept providing them with escape.9 - ¶ To you they cried out,10 and they got away safe;11
In you they trusted, and they did not come to shame.12 - ¶ But I am a worm,13 and not a man,[d]
A reproach to men[e] and despicable to the people.14 - ¶ As for all those seeing me, they hold me in derision;15
They keep opening their mouths wide,[f] they keep wagging [their] head:16 - ¶ “He committed himself[g] to Jehovah.17 Let Him provide him with escape!18
Let him deliver him, since he has taken delight in him!”19 - ¶ For you were the One drawing me forth from the belly,20
The One making me trust while upon the breasts of my mother.21 - ¶ Upon you I have been thrown from the womb;22
From the belly of my mother you have been my God.[h]23 - ¶ Do not keep far off from me, because distress is nearby,24
Because there is no other helper.25 - ¶ Many young bulls have surrounded me;26
The powerful ones of Baʹshan themselves have got around me.27 - ¶ They have opened against me their mouth,28
As a lion tearing in pieces and roaring.29 - ¶ Like water I have been poured out,30
And all my bones have been separated from one another.31
¶ My heart has become like wax;32
It has melted deep in my inward parts.33 - ¶ My power[i] has dried up just like a fragment of earthenware,34
And my tongue is made to stick to my gums;[j]35
And in the dust of death you are setting me.36 - ¶ For dogs have surrounded me;37
The assembly of evildoers themselves have enclosed me.38
Like a lion [they are at] my hands and my feet.[k]39 - ¶ I can count all my bones.40
They themselves look, they gaze upon me.41 - ¶ They apportion my garments among themselves,42
And upon my clothing they cast lots.43 - ¶ But you, O Jehovah, O do not keep far off.44
O you my strength,45 do make haste to my assistance.46 - ¶ Do deliver from the sword my soul,47
My only one[l] from the very paw of the dog;48 - ¶ Save me from the mouth of the lion,49
And from the horns of wild bulls you must answer [and save] me.50 - ¶ I will declare your name51 to my brothers;52
In the middle of the congregation[m] I shall praise you.53 - ¶ YOU fearers of Jehovah, praise him!54
All YOU the seed of Jacob, glorify him!55
And be frightened at him, all YOU the seed of Israel.56 - ¶ For he has neither despised57
Nor loathed the affliction of the afflicted one;58
¶ And he has not concealed his face from him,59
And when he cried to him for help he heard.60 - ¶ From you my praise will be in the large congregation;61
My vows I shall pay in front of those fearing him.62 - ¶ The meek ones will eat and be satisfied;63
Those seeking him will praise Jehovah.64
May YOUR hearts[n] live forever.65 - ¶ All the ends of the earth will remember and turn back to Jehovah.66
And all the families of the nations will bow down before you.67 - ¶ For the kingship belongs to Jehovah,68
And he is dominating the nations.69 - ¶ All the fat ones of the earth shall eat and will bow down;70
Before him all those going down to the dust will bend down,71
And no one will ever preserve his own soul[o] alive.72 - ¶ A seed[p] itself will serve him;73
It will be declared concerning Jehovah[q] to the generation.74 - ¶ They will come and tell of his righteousness75
To the people that is to be born, that he[r] has done [this].76
FOOTNOTES
- ^ “My God, my God, why have you left me?” Heb., ʼE·liʹ, ʼE·liʹ, la·mahʹ ʽazav·taʹni?; Syr., ʼA·lahi ʼA·lahi lema·naʼ sebaq·tani? Compare Mt 27:46; Mr 15:34.
- ^ “Far from my salvation are the words of my trespasses,” LXXVg.
- ^ “My God.” Heb., ʼElo·haiʹ, pl.
- ^ “Man.” Heb., ʼish.
- ^ Lit., “earthling man,” used collectively. Heb., ʼa·dhamʹ.
- ^ Lit., “they make a separation with the lip.” Or, “they draw their mouth.”
- ^ Or, “Commit [yourself],” M; LXXVg, “He hoped.”
- ^ “My God.” Heb., ʼEʹli.
- ^ “Palate,” by transposing two Heb. letters in M.
- ^ Or, “jaws.”
- ^ “Like the lion—my hands and (my) feet,” M; T, “Biting like a lion my hands and my feet”; LXXVg, “They bored (dug through) my hands and my feet.”
- ^ “My only one,” fem., referring to “my soul.”
- ^ “Congregation.” Heb., qa·halʹ; Gr., ek·kle·siʹas; Lat., ec·cleʹsi·a.
- ^ Lit., “heart.”
- ^ “And . . . his own soul.” Heb., wenaph·shohʹ. See App 4A.
- ^ Or, “offspring.”
- ^ One of 134 scribal changes from YHWH to ʼAdho·naiʹ. See App 1B.
- ^ “He,” MT; LXXSyVg, “Jehovah.”
REFERENCES
- ^ Ps 22:16; 31:14; Mt 27:46; Mr 15:34
- ^ Ps 26:9; Heb 5:7
- ^ Jb 3:24; Ps 38:8
- ^ Ps 42:3; 88:1
- ^ Lu 18:7
- ^ Is 6:3; Jn 17:11; 1Pe 1:15
- ^ De 10:21; Ps 65:1
- ^ Ge 15:6; Heb 11:33
- ^ Ex 14:13
- ^ Ps 99:6; 106:44
- ^ 1Co 10:13
- ^ Ps 25:2; Is 49:23; Ro 10:11
- ^ Jb 25:6; Is 41:14
- ^ Ps 31:11; Is 53:3; Jn 7:15
- ^ Ps 35:16; Mt 5:11; 9:24; Lu 16:14
- ^ Jb 16:4; Ps 44:14; 109:25; Mt 27:39
- ^ Ps 37:5
- ^ Mt 27:43; Lu 23:35
- ^ Ps 18:19; 91:14
- ^ Ps 71:6; 139:16
- ^ Lu 11:27
- ^ Is 46:3
- ^ Is 49:1; Lu 1:42; Ga 1:15
- ^ Ps 10:1; Heb 5:7
- ^ Ps 72:12; Lu 23:46
- ^ Ps 68:30
- ^ Is 53:7; Eze 39:18; Am 4:1; Mt 27:1
- ^ Jb 16:10; Ps 35:21; La 2:16; Mt 26:4
- ^ Ps 57:4; 1Pe 5:8
- ^ Jos 7:5
- ^ Da 5:6; Lu 22:44
- ^ Jb 23:16; Jn 12:27
- ^ De 20:8; Mt 26:38; Mr 14:33
- ^ Pr 17:22
- ^ La 4:4; Jn 19:28
- ^ Ge 3:19; Ps 30:9; Is 53:12; 1Co 15:4
- ^ Ps 59:6; Lu 22:63; Pp 3:2; Re 22:15
- ^ Ps 86:14; Lu 11:53
- ^ Is 53:7; Mt 27:35; Jn 20:25
- ^ Ps 34:20; Jn 19:36
- ^ Mt 27:36; Lu 23:35
- ^ Jn 19:24
- ^ Mr 15:24
- ^ Ps 10:1
- ^ Ps 18:1
- ^ Ps 40:13
- ^ Ps 17:13; 37:17
- ^ Ps 22:16
- ^ Ps 35:17; 2Ti 4:17
- ^ De 33:17; Jn 8:59; Ac 4:27
- ^ Jn 17:6; Heb 2:12
- ^ Mt 12:49; Jn 20:17; Ro 8:29; Heb 2:11, 17
- ^ Ps 40:9; Heb 2:12
- ^ Ps 135:20; Lu 1:50; Ac 4:24
- ^ Ps 50:15, 23; Lu 2:20; 1Co 6:20; Re 15:4
- ^ De 6:13
- ^ Ps 69:33
- ^ Ps 34:6
- ^ Nu 6:25
- ^ Heb 5:7
- ^ Ps 35:18; 40:10; 107:32; 111:1
- ^ Ec 5:4
- ^ Ps 37:11; Is 65:13
- ^ Zp 2:3
- ^ Jn 4:14
- ^ Is 66:20
- ^ Ge 22:18; Re 7:9; 15:4
- ^ 1Ch 29:11; Ob 21; Re 11:17
- ^ Ps 47:7; Zc 14:9
- ^ Ps 45:12
- ^ Is 26:19; Pp 2:10
- ^ Ps 49:7
- ^ Is 53:10
- ^ 1Pe 2:9
- ^ Ro 1:17; 3:22
- ^ Ps 78:6; 102:18
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