To the chief Musician upon Aijeleth Shahar [or, hind of the morning], A Psalm of David.
My El, my El, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?
O my Elohim, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.
But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel.
Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them.
They cried unto thee, and were delivered: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded.
But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.
All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,
He trusted on Jehovah that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.
But thou art he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother's breasts.
I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou art my El from my mother's belly.
Be not far from me; for trouble is near; for there is none to help.
Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.
They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.
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.
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.
For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have enclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.
I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me. They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.
But be not thou far from me, O Jehovah: O my strength, haste thee to help me.
Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog.
Save me from the lion's mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns.
I will declare thy name unto my brethren: in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee.
Ye that fear Jehovah, praise him; all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him; and fear him, all ye the seed of Israel.
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.
My praise shall be of thee in the great congregation: I will pay my vows before them that fear him.
The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise Jehovah that seek him: your heart shall live forever.
All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto Jehovah: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee.
For the kingdom is Jehovah's: and he is the governor among the nations.
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.
A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to Adonay as for a generation.
They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that he hath done this.
His sufferings as forsaken of El: the result being grace and glory to man.
This is a portion to be much mused and fed upon.
22:1-21 humiliation; 22-31 the fruit of it in resurrection going on into the Millennial Kingdom.
Note.-On his lip, El, El, ver. 1 and 10; on the adversaries, Jehovah, ver. 8 and once on his (ver. 19): that in suffering; it glory Jehovah ver. 23 and 26 and 27 and 28, Adonay, ver. 30.
Some would divide this Psalm in the middle of ver. 21, though the stress was laid upon " thou hast heard me"; and not rather, upon "from the horns of the unicorns."