시편 22

From forsaken to praise among the nations

¹For the music director. On Ayyeleth-hashshahar. A psalm of David. ²My God, my God, why have you abandoned me? I roar out my words, and still rescue is far away. ³My God, all day I call, and you do not answer; all night too, and I cannot be still. ⁴Yet you are holy; Israel’s praises are the throne where you sit. ⁵Our ancestors relied on you; they relied on you, and you brought them out safe. ⁶They cried out to you and escaped; they relied on you and were never disgraced. ⁷But I am a worm and no longer a man, a byword of scorn among people, despised by the crowd. ⁸Everyone who sees me laughs at me; they curl their lips and shake their heads, ⁹“Leave it to the LORD! Let him get him out of it; let him save him, since he is so delighted with him!” ¹⁰Yet it was you who drew me out at birth and kept me safe as I nursed at my mother’s breast. ¹¹From birth I was thrown into your arms; since my mother carried me, you have been my God. ¹²Do not keep your distance from me; distress is at hand, and I have no helper. ¹³A herd of bulls has closed in around me; the powerful bulls of Bashan hem me in. ¹⁴They gape at me with open jaws, like a lion that roars and rips its prey. ¹⁵My life drains away like spilled water; every bone in me is wrenched apart. My heart is like wax, melting deep inside me. ¹⁶My strength is as dry as a shard of broken pottery; my tongue is stuck fast to my jaw, and you bring me down to the dust of death. ¹⁷Dogs are all around me; a gang of evildoers has closed in on me; like a lion they go for my hands and my feet.^{a 18}I can count every one of my bones, while they look on and stare at me. ¹⁹They share out my clothes among themselves and throw lots for what I wear. ²⁰But you, LORD, do not stand far off! My strength, hurry to help me! ²¹Save my life from the sword; save the only life I have from the dog’s paw. ²²Save me from the lion’s mouth! Even as the wild oxen lower their horns at me, you have answered me!^{b 23}I will make your name known to my brothers and sisters; with the whole assembly gathered, I will praise you. ²⁴Praise him, all who fear the LORD! Let all of Jacob’s family give him honor; let all of Israel’s people stand in awe of him! ²⁵For he has not looked down on the suffering of the one in misery or turned from it in disgust; he did not turn his face away, but heard him when he called for help. ²⁶It is you who give me my praise in the great assembly; I will pay what I vowed where those who fear him can see. ²⁷The poor will eat and have their fill; those who seek him will praise the LORD. May new life fill your hearts forever! ²⁸People at the farthest ends of the earth will remember and come back to the LORD; every clan of every nation will bow low before you. ²⁹For the kingdom is the LORD’s, and he governs the nations. ³⁰The prosperous of the earth will eat and bow in worship; those on their way down to the dust, who have no power to keep their own lives, will bend the knee before him.^{c 31}A new generation of descendants will serve him, and they will be told about the Lord in the age that follows. ³²They will come and tell of his justice to a people not yet born: he has done this!