The Psalter of David with titles and collects according to the matter of each psalm.

PSALME 22. (Book 22)

A meditation upon the Passion of our Blessed Saviour.

EVENING PRAYER. (Book 22)

MY God, my God, (look upon me) why hast thou forsaken me: and art so farre from my health, and from the words of my complaint.

2 O my God, I cry in the day time, but thou hearest not: and in the night season also I take no rest.

3 And thou continuest holy: O thou worship of Israel.

4 Our fathers hoped in thee: they trusted in thee, and thou didst deliver them.

5 They called upon thee, and were holpen: they put their trust in thee, and were not confoun∣ded.

6 But as for mee, I am a Worm and no man: a very scorn of men, and the outcast of the people.

7 All they that see me, laugh me to scorne: they shoot out their lips, and shake their heads, saying,

8 He trusted in God, that he would deliver

him: let him deliver him if he will have him.

9 But thou art he that took me out of my mothers wombe: thou wast my hope when I hanged yet upon my mothers brests.

10 I have been left unto thee ever since I was borne: thou art my God, even from my mo∣thers wombe.

11 O go not from me, for trouble is hard at hand: and there is none to help me.

12 Many oxen are come about mee: fat bulls of Basan close me in on every side.

13 They gape upon mee with their mouthes: as it were a ramping and roaring lion.

14 I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of ioynt: my heart also in the midst of my body is even like mel••ing wax.

15 My strength is dried up like a pot-sheard, and my tongue cleaveth to my gummes: and thou shalt bring me into the dust of death.

16 For (many) dogs are come about me: and the counsell of the wicked layeth siege against mee.

17 They pierced my hands and my feet, I may tell all my bones: they stand staring and loo∣king upon me.

18 They part my garments among them: and cast lots upon my vesture.

19 But be not thou farre from me, O Lorde

thou art my succour, hast thee to help me.

20 Deliver my soul from the sword: my darl∣ing from the power of the dog.

21 Save me from the lions mouth: thou hast heard me also from among the hornes of the uni∣corns.

22 I will declare thy name unto my bre∣thren: in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee.

23 O praise the Lord ye that feare him: ma∣gnifie him all ye of the seed of Iacob, and feare him all ye seed of Israel.

24 For he hath not despised nor abhorred the low estate of the poore, he hath not hid his face from him: but when he called unto him, he heard him.

25 My praise is of thee in the great congre∣gation: my vowes will I performe in the sight of them that fear him.

26 The poor shall eat and be satisfied: they that seek after the Lord, shall praise him, your heart shall live for ever.

27 All the ends of the world shall remember themselves, and be turned unto the Lord: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before him.

28 For the Kingdom is the Lords: and he is the governour among the people.

29 All such as be fat upon earth: have eaten and worshipped.

30 All they that go down into the dust shall kneel before him: and no man hath quickned his own soule.

31 My seed shall serve him: they shall be couu∣ted unto the Lord for a generation.

32 They shall come, and the heavens shall de∣clare his righteousnesse: unto a people that shall be born, whom the Lord hath made.

The Prayer.

O Mercifull Iesu, who for our sakes did'st suf∣fer thy selfe to be betrayed, tormented, spitupon, crucified, and to dye, that thou mightest purchase for us redemption from the sting of death, the miseries of hell, the malice and pow∣er of the Divell, deliver our soules from the sword of thy Vengeance, cut us not off by un∣timely death, free our darling from the power of the dog, our soules from being a prey unto the Divell, snatch us out of the Lions mouth, who goeth up and downe seeking whom he may de∣voure. O Iesu, be a Iesus unto us, and let those victories which thou hast obtained over Satan, and Hell, and the grave, bring us peace and Righ∣teousnesse, and a Crown of glory in the Heavens where thou livest and reignest, in the great con∣gregation

of Saints and Angells, one God world without end. Amen.