Salmi 22

Dio mio, perché mi hai abbandonato

For the Chief Musician; set to Aijeleth hash-Shahar. A Psalm of David. My 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 day-time, but thou answerest 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 ashamed. 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], ⁸Commit [thyself ]unto the LORD; let him deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighteth in him. ⁹But thou art he that took me out the womb: thou didst make me trust [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 gape upon me with their mouth, [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 evil-doers have enclosed 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 upon my vesture do they cast lots.

¹⁹But be not thou far off, O LORD: O thou my succour, 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; yea, from the horns of the wild-oxen thou hast answered me.

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 stand in awe of 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.

²⁵Of thee cometh my praise 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 after him: let your heart live for ever. ²⁷All the ends of the earth 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 ruler over the nations. ²⁹All the fat ones of the earth shall eat and worship: all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him, even he that cannot keep his soul alive. ³⁰A seed shall serve him; it shall be told of the Lord unto the [next ]generation.

³¹They shall come and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that he hath done it.