Psalm 21

Christ's passion: and the conversion of the Gentiles.

Does this psalm differ from what you were expecting? Don't be confused. There are two systems for arranging the psalms: the Septuagint and the Masoretic. We use the Septuagint system here. In the Masoretic system, which is used in most modern Bible translations, this psalm is called Psalm 22, and the previous psalm is known as Psalm 21.

English (Douay-Rheims)

1 Unto the end, for the morning protection, a psalm for David.

2 O God my God, look upon me: why hast thou forsaken me? Far from my salvation are the words of my sins. The words of my sins... That is, the sins of the world, which I have taken upon myself, cry out against me, and are the cause of all my sufferings.
3 O my God, I shall cry by day, and thou wilt not hear: and by night, and it shall not be reputed as folly in me.
4 But thou dwellest in the holy place, the praise of Israel.
5 In thee have our fathers hoped: they have hoped, and thou hast delivered them.
6 They cried to thee, and they were saved: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded.
7 But I am a worm, and no man: the reproach of men, and the outcast of the people.
8 All they that saw me have laughed me to scorn: they have spoken with the lips, and wagged the head.
9 He hoped in the Lord, let him deliver him: let him save him, seeing he delighteth in him.
10 For thou art he that hast drawn me out of the womb: my hope from the breasts of my mother.
11 I was cast upon thee from the womb. From my mother's womb thou art my God,
12 Depart not from me. For tribulation is very near: for there is none to help me.
13 Many calves have surrounded me: fat bulls have besieged me.
14 They have opened their mouths against me, as a lion ravening and roaring.
15 I am poured out like water; and all my bones are scattered. My heart is become like wax melting in the midst of my bowels.
16 My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue hath cleaved to my jaws: and thou hast brought me down into the dust of death.
17 For many dogs have encompassed me: the council of the malignant hath besieged me. They have dug my hands and feet.
18 They have numbered all my bones. And they have looked and stared upon me.
19 They parted my garments amongst them; and upon my vesture they cast lots.
20 But thou, O Lord, remove not thy help to a distance from me; look towards my defence.
21 Deliver, O God, my soul from the sword: my only one from the hand of the dog.
22 Save me from the lion's mouth; and my lowness from the horns of the unicorns.
23 I will declare thy name to my brethren: in the midst of the church will I praise thee.
24 Ye that fear the Lord, praise him: all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him.
25 Let all the seed of Israel fear him: because he hath not slighted nor despised the supplication of the poor man. Neither hath he turned away his face form me: and when I cried to him he heard me.
26 With thee is my praise in a great church: I will pay my vows in the sight of them that fear him.
27 The poor shall eat and shall be filled: and they shall praise the Lord that seek him: their hearts shall live for ever and ever.
28 All the ends of the earth shall remember, and shall be converted to the Lord: And all the kindreds of the Gentiles shall adore in his sight.
29 For the kingdom is the Lord's; and he shall have dominion over the nations.
30 All the fat ones of the earth have eaten and have adored: all they that go down to the earth shall fall before him.
31 And to him my soul shall live: and my seed shall serve him.
32 There shall be declared to the Lord a generation to come: and the heavens shall show forth his justice to a people that shall be born, which the Lord hath made.

Old Testament first published 1609 by the English College at Douay
New Testament first published 1582 by the English College at Rheims
Revised and Annotated 1749 by Bishop Richard Challoner
Imprimatur. +James Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore, September 1, 1899

Latin (Clementine Vulgate)

1 In finem, pro susceptione matutina. Psalmus David.

2 Deus, Deus meus, respice in me: quare me dereliquisti?
longe a salute mea verba delictorum meorum.
3 Deus meus, clamabo per diem, et non exaudies;
et nocte, et non ad insipientiam mihi.
4 Tu autem in sancto habitas, laus Israël.
5 In te speraverunt patres nostri;
speraverunt, et liberasti eos.
6 Ad te clamaverunt, et salvi facti sunt;
in te speraverunt, et non sunt confusi.
7 Ego autem sum vermis, et non homo;
opprobrium hominum, et abjectio plebis.
8 Omnes videntes me deriserunt me;
locuti sunt labiis, et moverunt caput.
9 Speravit in Domino, eripiat eum:
salvum faciat eum, quoniam vult eum.
10 Quoniam tu es qui extraxisti me de ventre,
spes mea ab uberibus matris meæ.
11 In te projectus sum ex utero;
de ventre matris meæ Deus meus es tu:
12 ne discesseris a me,
quoniam tribulatio proxima est,
quoniam non est qui adjuvet.
13 Circumdederunt me vituli multi;
tauri pingues obsederunt me.
14 Aperuerunt super me os suum,
sicut leo rapiens et rugiens.
15 Sicut aqua effusus sum,
et dispersa sunt omnia ossa mea:
factum est cor meum tamquam cera liquescens in medio ventris mei.
16 Aruit tamquam testa virtus mea,
et lingua mea adhæsit faucibus meis:
et in pulverem mortis deduxisti me.
17 Quoniam circumdederunt me canes multi;
concilium malignantium obsedit me.
Foderunt manus meas et pedes meos;
18 dinumeraverunt omnia ossa mea.
Ipsi vero consideraverunt et inspexerunt me.
19 Diviserunt sibi vestimenta mea,
et super vestem meam miserunt sortem.
20 Tu autem, Domine, ne elongaveris auxilium tuum a me;
ad defensionem meam conspice.
21 Erue a framea, Deus, animam meam,
et de manu canis unicam meam.
22 Salva me ex ore leonis,
et a cornibus unicornium humilitatem meam.
23 Narrabo nomen tuum fratribus meis;
in medio ecclesiæ laudabo te.
24 Qui timetis Dominum, laudate eum;
universum semen Jacob, glorificate eum.
25 Timeat eum omne semen Israël,
quoniam non sprevit, neque despexit deprecationem pauperis,
nec avertit faciem suam a me:
et cum clamarem ad eum, exaudivit me.
26 Apud te laus mea in ecclesia magna;
vota mea reddam in conspectu timentium eum.
27 Edent pauperes, et saturabuntur,
et laudabunt Dominum qui requirunt eum:
vivent corda eorum in sæculum sæculi.
28 Reminiscentur et convertentur ad Dominum universi fines terræ;
et adorabunt in conspectu ejus universæ familiæ gentium:
29 quoniam Domini est regnum,
et ipse dominabitur gentium.
30 Manducaverunt et adoraverunt omnes pingues terræ;
in conspectu ejus cadent omnes qui descendunt in terram.
31 Et anima mea illi vivet;
et semen meum serviet ipsi.
32 Annuntiabitur Domino generatio ventura;
et annuntiabunt cæli justitiam ejus
populo qui nascetur, quem fecit Dominus.

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