Psalms 22 verse 16-31 Brother Marcel Switzerland

¹⁶ A group of sinful people has closed in on me.
    They are all around me like a pack of dogs.
    They have pierced my hands and my feet.
¹⁷ Everyone can see all my bones right through my skin.
    People stare at me. They laugh when I suffer.
¹⁸ They divide up my clothes among them.
    They cast lots for what I am wearing.

¹⁹ Lord, don’t be so far away from me.
    You give me strength. Come quickly to help me.
²⁰ Save me from being killed by the sword.
    Save the only life I have. Save me from the power of those dogs.
²¹ Save me from the mouths of those lions.
    Save me from the horns of those wild oxen.

²² I will announce your name to my people.
    I will praise you among those who are gathered to worship you.
²³ You who have respect for the Lord, praise him!
    All you people of Jacob, honor him!
    All you people of Israel, worship him!
²⁴ He has not forgotten the one who is hurting.
    He has not turned away from his suffering.
He has not turned his face away from him.
    He has listened to his cry for help.

²⁵ Because of what you have done,
    I will praise you in the whole community of those who worship you.
In front of those who respect you,
    I will keep my promises.
²⁶ Those who are poor will eat and be satisfied.
    Those who seek the Lord will praise him.
    May their hearts be filled with new hope!
²⁷ People from one end of the earth to the other
    will remember and turn to the Lord.
The people of all the nations
    will bow down in front of him.
²⁸ The Lord is King.
    He rules over the nations.

²⁹ All rich people of the earth will feast and worship God.
    All who go down to the grave will kneel in front of him.
    Those who cannot keep themselves alive will kneel.
³⁰ Those who are not yet born will serve him.
    Those who are born later will be told about the Lord.
³¹ And they will tell people who have not yet been born,
    “The Lord has done what is right!”