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The Next Right Thing

214: Psalm 22

The Next Right Thing

Emily P. Freeman

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.85.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2022

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Sometimes you need someone to read to you words spoken by a sufferer in the midst of struggle, words without a filter or a reframe. Here is a simple reading of Psalm 22, a Psalm of individual lament that may perhaps be a strange kind of comfort for you if you're in the midst of your own struggle. Listen in.

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0:00.0

My God, my God, why have you left me all alone?

0:11.9

Why are you so far from saving me, so far from my anguished groans?

0:19.7

My God, I cry out during the day, but you don't answer.

0:24.8

Even at night time, I don't stop.

0:29.6

You are the holy one, enthroned.

0:33.7

You are Israel's praise.

0:39.0

Our ancestors trusted you.

0:42.0

They trusted you and you rescued them.

0:45.2

They cried out to you and they were saved.

0:48.5

They trusted you and they weren't ashamed.

0:53.3

But I'm just a worm, less than human, insulted by one person despised by another.

1:01.7

All who see me make fun of me, they gave, shaking their heads.

1:07.8

He committed himself to the Lord, so let God rescue him.

1:12.5

Let God deliver him, because God likes him so much.

1:18.6

But you are the one who pulled me from the womb, placing me safely at my mother's breasts.

1:26.0

I was thrown on you from birth.

1:29.0

You've been my God since I was in my mother's womb.

1:34.0

Please don't be far from me, because trouble is near, and there's no one to help.

1:43.4

Many bulls surround me, mighty bulls from Boshan encircle me.

1:49.5

They open their mouths at me like a lion ripping and roaring, I'm poured out like water.

1:58.6

All my bones have fallen apart.

2:02.3

My heart is like wax, it melts inside me.

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