n°19 / Psalms 22 :

1My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me ? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring ?
2O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not ; and in the night season, and am not silent.
3But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel.
4Our fathers trusted in thee : they trusted, and thou didst deliver them.
5They cried unto thee, and were delivered : they trusted in thee, and were not confounded.
6But I am a worm, and no man ; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.
7All they that see me laugh me to scorn : they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,
8He trusted on the LORD that he would deliver him : let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.
9But thou art he that took me out of the womb : thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother’s breasts.
10I was cast upon thee from the womb : thou art my God from my mother’s belly.
11Be not far from me ; for trouble is near ; for there is none to help.
12Many bulls have compassed me : strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.
13They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.
14I 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.
15My strength is dried up like a potsherd ; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws ; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.
16For dogs have compassed me : the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me : they pierced my hands and my feet.
17I may tell all my bones : they look and stare upon me.
18They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.
19But be not thou far from me, O LORD : O my strength, haste thee to help me.
20Deliver my soul from the sword ; my darling from the power of the dog.
21Save me from the lion’s mouth : for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns.
22I will declare thy name unto my brethren : in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee.
23Ye that fear the LORD, praise him ; all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him ; and fear him, all ye the seed of Israel.
24For 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.
25My praise shall be of thee in the great congregation : I will pay my vows before them that fear him.
26The meek shall eat and be satisfied : they shall praise the LORD that seek him : your heart shall live for ever.
27All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the LORD : and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee.
28For the kingdom is the LORD’s : and he is the governor among the nations.
29All 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.
30A seed shall serve him ; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation.
31They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that he hath done this.