King James Version

Psalms 22

Psalms in the King James Version. Each verse number opens that verse. Study, in the row above the verse, opens the Hebrew, the notes, the other translations, and the connections.

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Open Psalms 22:1

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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Open Psalms 22:2

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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Open Psalms 22:3

But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel.
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Open Psalms 22:4

Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them.
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Open Psalms 22:5

They cried unto thee, and were delivered: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded.
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Open Psalms 22:6

But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.
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Open Psalms 22:7

All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,
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Open Psalms 22:8

He trusted on the LORD that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.
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Open Psalms 22:9

But thou art he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother’s breasts.
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Open Psalms 22:10

I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou art my God from my mother’s belly.
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Open Psalms 22:11

Be not far from me; for trouble is near; for there is none to help.
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Open Psalms 22:12

Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.
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Open Psalms 22:13

They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.
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Open Psalms 22:14

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.
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Open Psalms 22:15

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.
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Translation Note
In the Hebrew text this line is Psalm 22:17. The King James reads “they pierced my hands and my feet.” The 1917 Jewish Publication Society reads “like a lion, they are at my hands and my feet.” Brenton reads “they pierced my hands and my feet,” and the Greek verb is ὤρυξαν, “they dug.”
The Westminster form is כָּאֲרִי. Open Scriptures tags it with Strong’s H3738 and a noun parse, not as the verb “to dig.” Strong’s defines H3738 as “properly, to dig.” Strong’s H738 is “a lion,” and its King James list includes “pierce (from the margin).” The consonants can be read as “like a lion.” They have also been read as a verb of piercing or digging. The Jewish Publication Society takes the lion. The King James and Brenton take piercing. Christians read the line with the crucifixion, where the hands and feet of Jesus were pierced. Jesus is God the Son, and the psalm is his prayer.
King James Version. For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.
Jewish Publication Society (1917). “like a lion, they are at my hands and my feet.”
Brenton’s Septuagint (1851), English. “they pierced my hands and my feet.”
Septuagint, Brenton’s Greek (1851). ὤρυξαν χεῖράς μου, καὶ πόδας.
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Open Psalms 22:16

For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.
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Open Psalms 22:17

I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me.
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Open Psalms 22:18

They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.
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Open Psalms 22:19

But be not thou far from me, O LORD: O my strength, haste thee to help me.
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Open Psalms 22:20

Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog.
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Open Psalms 22:21

Save me from the lion’s mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns.
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Open Psalms 22:22

I will declare thy name unto my brethren: in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee.
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Open Psalms 22:23

Ye that fear the LORD, praise him; all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him; and fear him, all ye the seed of Israel.
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Open Psalms 22:24

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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Open Psalms 22:25

My praise shall be of thee in the great congregation: I will pay my vows before them that fear him.
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Open Psalms 22:26

The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the LORD that seek him: your heart shall live for ever.
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Open Psalms 22:27

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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Open Psalms 22:28

For the kingdom is the LORD’s: and he is the governor among the nations.
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Open Psalms 22:29

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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Open Psalms 22:30

A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation.
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Open Psalms 22:31

They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that he hath done this.

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