Psalms 22:1
To the Overseer, on 'The Hind of the Morning.' — A Psalm of David. My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me? Far from my salvation, The words of my roaring?
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
2My God, I call by day, and Thou answerest not, And by night, and there is no silence to me.
Cross References
Leviticus 2:6divide thou it into parts, and thou hast poured on it oil; it [is] a present.
Job 3:24For before my food, my sighing cometh, And poured out as waters [are] my roarings.
Psalms 16:1A Secret Treasure of David. Preserve me, O God, for I did trust in Thee.
Psalms 22:16And to the dust of death thou appointest me, For surrounded me have dogs, A company of evil doers have compassed me, Piercing my hands and my feet.
Psalms 31:14And I on Thee — I have trusted, O Jehovah, I have said, 'Thou [art] my God.'
Psalms 37:28For Jehovah is loving judgment, And He doth not forsake His saintly ones, To the age they have been kept, And the seed of the wicked is 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 →