Psalms 22

Which worship songs are based on Psalms 22?

  1. Why God - My God — Phil Wickham (2025) Psalms 22:1

    The central cry of perceived abandonment closely reproduces the opening of this Davidic lament. It invokes both David's suffering and, through the Gospel use of the psalm, Jesus' suffering on the cross.

  2. Forsaken (Psalm 22) — Aaron Shust (2023) Psalms 22:1-19

    The song closely adapts the psalm’s pleas over divine silence, ancestral trust, physical collapse, surrounding enemies, public mockery, pierced extremities, and an urgent request for help.

  3. Blown Away — Hillsong UNITED (2022) Psalms 22:1

    Jesus' Aramaic cry from the cross is reproduced directly from Mark's Passion account. The saying itself cites the opening lament of Psalm 22, linking the crucifixion with that psalm's suffering and anticipated vindication.

  4. Open Up the Gates — Danny Gokey (2024) Psalms 22:3

    The chorus presents God as enthroned through the worship of his people, closely reflecting the psalm's portrayal of God enthroned upon Israel's praises.

  5. These Are The Days — Lauren Daigle (2023) Psalms 22:3

    The song adapts the psalm’s distinctive description of the holy God as dwelling amid the praise of his people, presenting communal worship as a place of divine presence.

  6. Church — Tasha Cobbs Leonard (2025) Psalms 22:3

    The closing request that God make the singer's worship His dwelling place evokes the psalm's image of God being enthroned amid the praises of His people.

  7. Bethel (Live) — ANTHNY, Deborah Bullock (2022) Psalms 22:3

    The repeated joining of praise with God's throne closely reflects the psalm's image of God being enthroned upon the praises of his people.

  8. Inhabit (Live) — Lakewood Music & Alexander Pappas (2024) Psalms 22:3

    The prayer for the Holy Spirit to dwell within the congregation’s praise closely reflects the psalm’s description of God as dwelling among, or being enthroned upon, Israel’s praises.

  9. Lost in Hallelujah (Live) — Naomi Raine (2025) Psalms 22:3

    The opening petition adapts the psalmic description of God as enthroned upon or dwelling amid the praises of His people.

Psalms 22 (King James Version)

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 day time, 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, and despised of the people.

7 All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,

8 He trusted on the LORD that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.

9 But thou art he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother’s breasts.

10 I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou art my God from my mother’s belly.

11 Be not far from me; for trouble is near; for there is none to help.

12 Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.

13 They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.

14 I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.

15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.

16 For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.

17 I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me.

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

19 But be not thou far from me, O LORD: O my strength, haste thee to help me.

20 Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog.

21 Save me from the lion’s mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns.

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

23 Ye that fear the LORD, praise him; all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him; and fear him, all ye the seed of Israel.

24 For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him; but when he cried unto him, he heard.

25 My praise shall be of thee in the great congregation: I will pay my vows before them that fear him.

26 The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the LORD that seek him: your heart shall live for ever.

27 All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the LORD: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee.

28 For the kingdom is the LORD’s: and he is the governor among the nations.

29 All they that be fat upon earth shall eat and worship: all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him: and none can keep alive his own soul.

30 A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation.

31 They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that he hath done this.