Psalms 22:8
'Roll unto Jehovah, He doth deliver him, He doth deliver him, for he delighted in him.'
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
He trusted on the LORD that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.
In Context
7All beholding me do mock at me, They make free with the lip — shake the head,
9For thou [art] He bringing me forth from the womb, Causing me to trust, On the breasts of my mother.
Cross References
Psalms 3:1A Psalm of David, in his fleeing from the face of Absalom his son. Jehovah, how have my distresses multiplied! Many are rising up against me.
Psalms 37:5Roll on Jehovah thy way, And trust upon Him, and He worketh,
Psalms 55:22Cast on Jehovah that which He hath given thee, And He doth sustain thee, He doth not suffer for ever the moving of the righteous.
Psalms 91:14Because in Me he hath delighted, I also deliver him — I set him on high, Because he hath known My name.
Proverbs 16:3Roll unto Jehovah thy works, And established are thy purposes,
Matthew 3:17and lo, a voice out of the heavens, saying, 'This is My Son — the Beloved, in whom I did delight.'
Matthew Henry on Psalms 22:2-11
Sorrowful Complaints. 1 My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring? 2 O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent. 3 But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel. 4 Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them. 5 They cried unto thee, and were delivered: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded. 6 But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men,… Read the whole commentary →