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 roaring?
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
In Context
2O my God, I cry in the day time, but you hear not; and in the night season, and am not silent.
Cross References
Leviticus 2:6You shall part it in pieces, and pour oil thereon: it is a food offering.
Job 3:24For my sighing comes before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.
Psalms 16:1Preserve me, O God: for in you do I put my trust.
Psalms 22:16For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have enclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.
Psalms 31:14But I trusted in you, O LORD: I said, You are my God.
Psalms 37:28For the LORD loves judgment, and forsakes not his saints; they are preserved for ever: but the seed 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 →