Catholic Public Domain Version

Psalm 21:4-15 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

4. But you dwell in holiness, O Praise of Israel.

5. In you, our fathers have hoped. They hoped, and you freed them.

6. They cried out to you, and they were saved. In you, they hoped and were not confounded.

7. But I am a worm and not a man: a disgrace among men, and an outcast of the people.

8. All those who saw me have derided me. They have spoken with the lips and shook the head.

9. He has hoped in the Lord, let him rescue him. Let him save him because he chooses him.

10. For you are the one who has drawn me out of the womb, my hope from the breasts of my mother.

11. I have been thrown upon you from the womb; from the womb of my mother, you are my God.

12. Do not depart from me. For tribulation is near, since there is no one who may help me.

13. Many calves have surrounded me; fat bulls have besieged me.

14. They have opened their mouths over me, just like a lion seizing and roaring.

15. And so, I have been poured out like water, and all my bones have been scattered. My heart has become like wax, melting in the midst of my chest.