Psalms 22:1
“For the leader of the music. To the tune of “The hind of the morning.” A psalm of David.” My God, my God! why hast thou forsaken me? Why so far from mine aid, and from the words of my cry?
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
2O my God! I cry during the day, but thou hearest not; In the night also, but I have no rest.
Cross References
Job 3:24For my sighing cometh before I eat, And my groans are poured out like water.
Psalms 16:1“A psalm off David.” Preserve me, O God! for to thee do I look for help.
Psalms 22:16For dogs have surrounded me; Bands of evil-doers have encompassed me,—Like lions my hands and my feet.
Psalms 31:14But I trust in thee, O Jehovah! I say, “Thou art my God!”
Psalms 37:28For the LORD loveth righteousness, And forsaketh not his servants; They are preserved for ever; But the posterity of the wicked shall be rooted out.
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 →