Psalms 22:1
My GOD, my GOD, why hast thou forsaken me? Far from saving me, The words of my loud lamentation?
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
2My God! I keep crying—By day, and thou dost not answer, and, By night, and there is no rest for me.
Cross References
Leviticus 2:6parting it into pieces, then shalt thou pour thereon oil,—a meal-offering, it is,
Job 3:24For, in the face of my food, my sighing, cometh in, and, poured out like the water, are my groans:
Psalms 16:1Preserve me, O GOD, for I have sought refuge in thee.
Psalms 22:16For dogs have surrounded me,—An assembly of evil doers, have encircled me, They have pierced my hands and my feet,
Psalms 31:14I, therefore. in thee, have put my trust, O Yahweh, I have said, My God, thou art!
Psalms 37:28For, Yahweh, loveth justice, and will not forsake his men of lovingkindness, Unto times age-abiding, have the perverse been destroyed,—and the seed of the lawless, been 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 →