Psalms 22:1
My God, my God, why have thou forsaken me, far from helping me, [and] the words of my groaning?
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
2O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou answer not, and in the night season, and I am not silent.
Cross References
Leviticus 2:6Thou shall part it in pieces, and pour oil in it. It is a meal-offering.
Job 3:24For my sighing comes before I eat, and my groanings are poured out like water.
Psalms 16:1Preserve me, O God, for in thee do I take refuge.
Psalms 22:16For dogs have encompassed me. A company of evil-doers have enclosed me. They pierced (LXX/DSS) my hands and my feet.
Psalms 31:14But I trusted in thee, O LORD. I said, Thou are my God.
Psalms 37:28For LORD loves justice, and forsakes not his sanctified. They are preserved forever, but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 22:1
The Spirit of Christ, which was in the prophets, testifies in this psalm, as clearly and fully as any where in all the Old Testament, "the sufferings of Christ and the glory that should follow" ( 1 Pet. i. 11 ); of him, no doubt, David here speaks, and not of himself, or any other man. Much of it is expressly applied to Christ in the New Testament, all of it may be applied to him, and some of it must be understood of him only. The providences of God concerning David were so very extraordinary that we may suppose… Read the whole commentary →