1 Vir die musiekleier; op die wysie van: "Die hert van die dageraad." 'n Psalm van Dawid.
2 My God, my God, waarom het U my verlaat, ver van my hulp, van die woorde van my gebrul?
3 My God, ek roep bedags, maar U antwoord nie; en snags, en ek kan nie swyg nie.
4 Tog is U die Heilige wat woon onder die lofsange van Israel!
5 Op U het ons vaders vertrou; hulle het vertrou, en U het hulle uitgered.
6 Hulle het U aangeroep en het ontvlug; op U het hulle vertrou en nie beskaamd gestaan nie.
7 Maar ek is 'n wurm en geen man nie, 'n smaad van die mense en verag deur die volk.
8 Almal wat my sien, spot met my; hulle steek die lip uit, hulle skud die hoof en sê:
9 Laat dit aan die HERE oor! Laat Hy hom red, laat Hy hom bevry: Hy het mos behae in hom!
10 Ja, U is dit wat my uit die moederskoot uitgetrek het, wat my veilig laat rus het aan my moeder se bors.
11 Aan U is ek oorgegee van die geboorte af; van die skoot van my moeder af is U my God.
12 Wees nie ver van my af nie, want die nood is naby, want daar is geen helper nie.
13 Baie stiere het my omsingel, sterkes van Basan het my omring.
14 Hulle het hul mond teen my oopgespalk soos 'n leeu wat verskeur en brul.
15 Ek is uitgestort soos water; al my beendere raak los; my hart het soos was geword; dit het gesmelt binne-in my ingewande.
16 My krag is verdroog soos 'n potskerf, en my tong kleef aan my verhemelte; en U lê my neer in die stof van die dood.
17 Want honde het my omsingel; 'n bende kwaaddoeners het my omring; hulle het my hande en my voete deurgrawe.
18 Al my beendere kan ek tel; hulle kyk, hulle sien met welgevalle op my neer!
19 Hulle verdeel my klere onder mekaar en werp die lot oor my gewaad.
20 Maar U, HERE, wees nie ver nie; my Sterkte, maak tog gou om my te help!
21 Red my siel van die swaard, my enigste uit die mag van die hond.
22 Verlos my uit die bek van die leeu, en uit die horings van die buffels het U my verhoor!
23 Ek wil u Naam aan my broers vertel, in die vergadering U prys.
24 Julle wat die HERE vrees, prys Hom! Al die nakomelinge van Jakob, vereer Hom! Ja, vrees Hom, al die nakomelinge van Israel!
25 Want Hy het die ellende van die ellendige nie verag of verfoei en sy aangesig vir hom nie verberg nie; maar Hy het gehoor toe die Hom aangeroep het om hulp.
26 Van U kom my lof in 'n groot vergadering; ek sal my geloftes betaal in teenwoordigheid van die wat Hom vrees.
27 Die ootmoediges sal eet en versadig word; hulle sal die HERE prys wat na Hom soek; mag julle hart vir ewig lewe!
28 Al die eindes van die aarde sal daaraan dink en hulle tot die HERE bekeer, en al die geslagte van die nasies sal voor u aangesig aanbid.
29 Want die koninkryk behoort aan die HERE, en Hy heers oor die nasies.
30 Al die grotes van die aarde sal eet en aanbid; almal wat in die stof neerdaal, sal voor sy aangesig kniel en hy wat sy siel nie in die lewe kan hou nie.
31 'n Nageslag sal Hom dien; dit sal vertel word van die HERE aan die volgende geslag. [ (Psalms 22:32) Hulle sal aankom en sy geregtigheid verkondig aan die volk wat gebore word; want Hy het dit gedoen. ]
1 To the chief music-maker on Aijeleth-hash-shahar. A Psalm. Of David.
2 \22:1\My God, my God, why are you turned away from me? why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my crying?
3 \22:2\O my God, I make my cry in the day, and you give no answer; and in the night, and have no rest.
4 \22:3\But you are holy, O you who are seated among the praises of Israel.
5 \22:4\Our fathers had faith in you: they had faith and you were their saviour.
6 \22:5\They sent up their cry to you and were made free: they put their faith in you and were not put to shame.
7 \22:6\But I am a worm and not a man; cursed by men, and looked down on by the people.
8 \22:7\I am laughed at by all those who see me: pushing out their lips and shaking their heads they say,
9 \22:8\He put his faith in the Lord; let the Lord be his saviour now: let the Lord be his saviour, because he had delight in him.
10 \22:9\But it was you who took care of me from the day of my birth: you gave me faith even from my mother's breasts.
11 \22:10\I was in your hands even before my birth; you are my God from the time when I was in my mother's body.
12 \22:11\Be not far from me, for trouble is near; there is no one to give help.
13 \22:12\A great herd of oxen is round me: I am shut in by the strong oxen of Bashan.
14 \22:13\I saw their mouths wide open, like lions crying after food.
15 \22:14\I am flowing away like water, and all my bones are out of place: my heart is like wax, it has become soft in my body.
16 \22:15\My throat is dry like a broken vessel; my tongue is fixed to the roof of my mouth, and the dust of death is on my lips.
17 \22:16\Dogs have come round me: I am shut in by the band of evil-doers; they made wounds in my hands and feet.
18 \22:17\I am able to see all my bones; their looks are fixed on me:
19 \22:18\They make a division of my robes among them, by the decision of chance they take my clothing.
20 \22:19\Do not be far from me, O Lord: O my strength, come quickly to my help.
21 \22:20\Make my soul safe from the sword, my life from the power of the dog.
22 \22:21\Be my saviour from the lion's mouth; let me go free from the horns of the cruel oxen.
23 \22:22\I will give the knowledge of your name to my brothers: I will give you praise among the people.
24 \22:23\You who have fear of the Lord, give him praise; all you seed of Jacob, give him glory; go in fear of him, all you seed of Israel.
25 \22:24\For he has not been unmoved by the pain of him who is troubled; or kept his face covered from him; but he has given an answer to his cry.
26 \22:25\My praise will be of you in the great meeting: I will make my offerings before his worshippers.
27 \22:26\The poor will have a feast of good things: those who make search for the Lord will give him praise: your heart will have life for ever.
28 \22:27\All the ends of the earth will keep it in mind and be turned to the Lord: all the families of the nations will give him worship.
29 \22:28\For the kingdom is the Lord's; he is the ruler among the nations.
30 \22:29\All the fat ones of the earth will give him worship; all those who go down to the dust will make themselves low before him, even he who has not enough for the life of his soul.
31 \22:30\A seed will be his servant; the doings of the Lord will be made clear to the generation which comes after.
32 \22:31\They will come and make his righteousness clear to a people of the future because he has done this.