Psalms 21

¹Unto the end for the morning enterprise, the Psalm of David.

²God my God have respect to me: why hast thou forsaken me? Far from my salvation are the words of my sins.

³My God I shall cry by day, & thou wilt not hear: and by night, and not for folly unto me.

⁴But thou dwellest in the holy place, the praise of Israel.

⁵In thee our fathers have hoped: they hoped, and thou didst deliver them.

⁶They cried to thee, and were saved: they hoped in thee, and were not confounded.

⁷But I am a worm and no man: a reproach of men and outcast of the people.

⁸All that see me have scorned me: they have spoken with the lips, & wagged the head.

⁹He hoped in the Lord, let him deliver him: let him save him, because he will him.

¹⁰Because thou art he that hast drawn me out of the womb: my hope from the breasts of my mother.

¹¹Upon thee I have been cast from the matrice: from my mother's womb thou art my God,

¹²depart not from me. Because tribulation is very nigh: because there is not that will help.

¹³Many calves have compassed me: fat bulls have besieged me.

¹⁴They have opened their mouth upon me, as a lion ravening and roaring.

¹⁵As water I am poured out: and all my bones are dispersed. My heart is made as wax melting in the midst of my belly.

¹⁶My strength is withered as a potsherd, and my tongue cleaved to my jaws: and thou hast brought me down into the dust of death.

¹⁷Because many dogs have compassed me: the counsel of the malignant hath besieged me. They have digged my hands and my feet:

¹⁸they have numbered all my bones. But themselves have considered and beheld me:

¹⁹they have divided my garments among them: and upon my vesture they have cast lot.

²⁰But thou Lord prolong not thy help from me: look toward my defence.

²¹Deliver, o God, my soul from the sword: and mine only one from the hand of the dog.

²²Save me out of the lion's mouth: and my humility from the horns of unicorns.

²³I will declare thy name to my brethren: in the midst of the Church I will praise thee,

²⁴Ye that fear our Lord praise him: all the seed of Jacob glorify ye him.

²⁵Let all the seed of Israel fear him: because he hath not contemned nor despised the petition of the poor. Neither hath he turned away his face from me: and when I cried to him he heard me,

²⁶With thee is my praise in the great Church: I will render my vows in the sight of them that fear him.

²⁷The poor shall eat, and shall be filled: and they shall praise our Lord that seek after him: their hearts shall live for ever and ever.

²⁸All the ends of the earth shall remember, and be converted to our Lord. And all the families of the Gentiles shall adore in his sight.

²⁹Because the kingdom is our Lord's: and he shall have dominion over the Gentiles.

³⁰All the fat ones of the earth have eaten, and adored: in his sight shall all fall that descend into the earth.

³¹And my soul shall live to him: and my seed shall serve him.

³²The generation to come shall be shewed to our Lord: and the heavens shall shew forth his justice to the people that shall be born, whom our Lord hath made.