---
title: Joseph Smith Translation (1867 edition)
description: Psalms from the Joseph Smith Translation (JST), 1867 edition.
authors:
  - Smith, Joseph, Jr.
collections:
  - joseph-smith
tags:
  - translation
published: "1867"
publisher: RLDS Publication Board
publisher_place: Plano, Illinois
publisher_note: "The title page reads: Published by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints; Joseph Smith, I. L. Rogers, E. Robinson, Publishing Committee; 1867."
edition: First edition (Plano, 1867)
language: en
type: book
chapter: 22
verse_count: 31
reference: "Joseph Smith Jr., *Joseph Smith Translation*, first edition (Plano, IL: RLDS Publication Board, 1867), Psalms, chap. 22, https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft."
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft
  identifier: holyscripturestr00smituoft
  scan: University of Toronto / Trinity College Library copy, Internet Archive
  transcription: "OCR text of the 1867 scans (Toronto copy and a second copy, holyscriptures00smit), reconciled word by word; Romans was also checked against the page images. Method, per-chapter validation log and known limits: docs/jst-1867-import.md."
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: 1867 US publication
  source: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft
  publication_year: 1867
---

# Psalms 22

*David prayeth in great distress, yet he praiseth God. To the chief Musician upon Aijeleth Shahar, A Psalm of David.*

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