Psalms 22:1
My God, my God, why have you abandoned me? 1 Why are you so far from saving me and far from the words of my anguish? 1
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In Context
2My God, I cry out in the daytime, but you do not answer, 1 and at night I am not silent! 1
Cross References
Leviticus 2:6You are to divide it into pieces and pour oil on it. This is a grain offering.
Job 3:24For my sighing happens instead of eating; 1 my groaning is poured out like water. 1
Psalms 16:1Protect me, God, for I take refuge in you. 1
Psalms 22:16For dogs have surrounded me; 1 a company of evildoers has encircled me; 1 they have pierced my hands and my feet. 1
Psalms 31:14But I trust in you, Yahweh; 1 I say, “You are my God.” 1
Psalms 37:28For Yahweh loves justice 1 and does not abandon his faithful followers. 1 They are preserved forever, 1 but the descendants of the wicked will be cut off. 1
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 →