Psalms 22:6
And your mercy will follow me all the days of my life, and so may I dwell in the house of the Lord for length of days.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.
In Context
Cross References
Job 25:6Is man much more than rottenness and the son of man much more than worms?
Psalms 31:1The understanding of David himself. Blessed are they whose iniquities have been forgiven and whose sins have been covered.
Psalms 41:5These things I have remembered; and my soul within me, I have poured out. For I will cross into the place of the wonderful tabernacle, all the way to the house of God, with a voice of exultation and confession, the sound of feasting.
Isaiah 41:14Fear not, O worm of Jacob, you who are dead within Israel. I have helped you, says the Lord, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.
Isaiah 53:3He is despised and the least among men, a man of sorrows who knows infirmity. And his countenance was hidden and despised. Because of this, we did not esteem him.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 22:2-11
Sorrowful Complaints. 1 My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring? 2 O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent. 3 But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest 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 am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men,… Read the whole commentary →