Psalms 22:2
\22:1\My God, my God, why are you turned away from me? why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my crying?
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.
In Context
1To the chief music-maker on Aijeleth-hash-shahar. A Psalm. Of David.
Cross References
Psalms 55:16\55:15\Let the hand of death come on them suddenly, and let them go down living into the underworld; because evil is in their houses and in their hearts.
Psalms 88:1A Song. A Psalm. Of the sons of Korah. To the chief music-maker; put to Mahalath Leannoth. Maschil. Of Heman the Ezrahite.
Lamentations 3:44Covering yourself with a cloud, so that prayer may not get through.
Luke 6:12And it came about in those days that he went out to the mountain for prayer; and he was all night in prayer to God.
Luke 22:41And he went a little distance away from them and, falling on his knees in prayer, he said,
2 Timothy 1:3I give praise to God, whose servant I have been, with a heart free from sin, from the time of my fathers, because in my prayers at all times the thought of you is with me, night and day
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 →