Psalm 22:1–11 | Liturgical Calendar

1

My God, my God, why have you forsaken me, *

and are so far from my cry, and from the words of my complaint?

2

O my God, I cry in the daytime, but you do not hear; *

in the night season also, but I find no rest.

3

But you remain holy, *

enthroned upon the praises of Israel.

4

Our fathers hoped in you; *

they trusted in you, and you delivered them.

5

They called upon you, and were delivered; *

they put their trust in you, and were not confounded.

6

But as for me, I am a worm, and no man, *

scorned by all, and the outcast of the people.

7

All those who see me laugh me to scorn; *

they curl their lips, and shake their heads, saying,

8

“He trusted in God, that he would deliver him; *

let him deliver him, if he will have him.”

9

But you are he that took me out of my mother’s womb; *

you were my hope, when I was yet upon my mother’s breasts.

10

I have been cast upon you ever since I was born; *

you are my God, even from my mother’s womb.

11

O go not far from me, for trouble is near at hand, *

and there is none to help me.