Psalms 22:1
My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning?
World English Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
2My God, I cry in the daytime, but you don’t answer; in the night season, and am not silent.
Cross References
Leviticus 2:6You shall cut it in pieces, and pour oil on it. It is a meal offering.
Job 3:24For my sighing comes before I eat. My groanings are poured out like water.
Psalms 16:1Preserve me, God, for I take refuge in you.
Psalms 22:16For dogs have surrounded me. A company of evildoers have enclosed me. They have pierced my hands and feet.
Psalms 31:14But I trust in you, LORD. I said, “You are my God.”
Psalms 37:28For the LORD loves justice, and doesn’t forsake his saints. They are preserved forever, but the children 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 →