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. Always Good — Andrew Peterson (2018) Psalms 22:1

    The bridge combines Psalm 22’s opening address to God with its urgent appeal for God not to remain distant.

  5. Introduction — Neal Morse (2019) Psalms 22:1

    Jesus' opening cry closely reproduces the beginning of Psalm 22, which the crucifixion narratives also place on his lips.

  6. Jesus Before Pilate and the Crucifixion — Neal Morse (2019) Psalms 22:1

    Jesus' closing cry of abandonment closely reproduces the opening lament of Psalm 22, which the Gospel crucifixion accounts place on Jesus' lips in Matthew 27:46 and Mark 15:34.

  7. Last Words (Tenebrae) — Andrew Peterson (2018) Psalms 22:1

    Jesus’ cry of abandonment directly invokes the opening of Psalm 22, bringing the psalm’s movement from anguish toward vindication into the crucifixion scene.

  8. Well Done, Good and Faithful — Andrew Peterson (2018) Psalms 22:1-21

    Most of the verses closely follow this psalm's progression from abandonment and ancestral trust through public ridicule, encircling bulls and lions, pierced extremities, and descent toward death.

  9. 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.

  10. There Is a Name — Bethel Music (2019) Psalms 22:3

    The chorus presents Jesus as enthroned amid the worship of his people, closely reflecting the psalm’s depiction of God’s kingship among Israel’s praises.

  11. 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.

  12. 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.

  13. 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.

  14. 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.

  15. 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.

  16. Holy Ground (Live) — Passion (2020) Psalms 22:3

    The request for God to establish his throne upon the congregation’s praise closely paraphrases the psalm’s portrayal of God as enthroned amid Israel’s praises.

  17. Underdressed — Gable Price and Friends (2020) Psalms 22:3

    The depiction of God as enthroned in the worship offered to him closely echoes the psalm's portrayal of the Holy One enthroned upon Israel's praises.

  18. Here In Your House - Live — Gateway Worship (2022) Psalms 22:3

    The invitation for God to be enthroned upon the congregation’s praise closely adapts the psalm’s depiction of God as enthroned amid Israel’s praises.

  19. Burning With Your Love - Live — Grace City & Chase Wagner (2019) Psalms 22:3

    The prayer for God to make congregational praise his dwelling place reflects the psalm's image of God inhabiting or being enthroned upon Israel's praises.

  20. Come Again — Elevation Worship (2021) Psalms 22:3

    The offered praise is presented as a place where God may dwell, closely reflecting the psalm's depiction of God as enthroned among the praises of Israel.

  21. Lord Send Revival (acoustic) — Hillsong Young & Free (2020) Psalms 22:3

    The request for God to dwell within congregational praise closely reflects the traditional rendering of this verse, while the surrounding declaration of holiness reinforces the connection.

  22. Inhabit - Live — Leeland (2019) Psalms 22:3

    The song’s central declaration closely follows the traditional rendering of Psalm 22:3, portraying God as dwelling or being enthroned amid the praise of His covenant people.

  23. Reanimate — Disciple (2019) Psalms 22:6

    The degrading image of dying as a worm evokes the psalmist’s description of being treated as subhuman. The song’s context of Christ accepting humiliation and death strengthens the connection to this crucifixion-associated lament.

  24. Butterfly — Josh Garrels (2019) Psalms 22:6

    The singer adopts the psalmist’s precise self-description as a lowly creature rather than a man, expressing humiliation before asking God for restoration.

  25. Answered — Josh Garrels (2020) Psalms 22:14-21

    Nearly the entire song closely reproduces this lament's sequence of bodily collapse, encircling enemies, pierced extremities, divided clothing, urgent petitions for rescue, and the declaration that God answered.

  26. Jesus, Your Mercy - Live — Sovereign Grace Music (2019) Psalms 22:16

    The reference to Jesus' pierced hands and feet directly uses the distinctive suffering imagery of this psalm.

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.