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[a]But I am a worm, not a man,
    scorned by men, despised by the people.(A)
All who see me mock me;
    they curl their lips and jeer;
    they shake their heads at me:(B)
“He relied on the Lord—let him deliver him;
    if he loves him, let him rescue him.”(C)

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  1. 22:7 I am a worm, not a man: the psalmist’s sense of isolation and dehumanization, an important motif of Ps 22, is vividly portrayed here.

All who see me mock me;(A)
    they hurl insults,(B) shaking their heads.(C)
“He trusts in the Lord,” they say,
    “let the Lord rescue him.(D)
Let him deliver him,(E)
    since he delights(F) in him.”

Yet you brought me out of the womb;(G)
    you made me trust(H) in you, even at my mother’s breast.

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