Psalms 22:1
My God, my God, why have you left me, my rescue so far from the words of my roaring?
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2I cry in the day, you do not answer, I cry in the night but find no rest.
Cross References
Psalms 16:1Keep me, O God, for in you I take refuge.
Psalms 22:16For dogs are round about me, a band of knaves encircles me, gnawing my hands and my feet.
Psalms 31:14But my trust is in you, Lord. “You are my God,” I say;
Psalms 37:28For the Lord loves justice, he does not forsake his friends. The unrighteous will be destroyed forever, and the seed of the wicked will 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 →