psalm 22:1 meaning
R. H. Ryland. The Vow. --Reprinted in Nichol's Series of Commentaries. 22. That is what the inscription over psalm 22 says. There was no cause in him, why then was he deserted? The Finish of the Faith. Faith and the want of sense are not inconsistent; there may be no present sense of God's love, nay, there may be a present sense of his wrath, and yet there may be faith at the same time. Even the burning a portion of the deer's horns was said to drive away all snakes. 30. Did God really forsake Jesus Christ upon the cross? Whole Psalm. That which is foretold about his vows ( Psalms 22:25 ), hath respect to his priestly function. Thank You that He died for me - I pray that I might live for Him, in Jesus name. How shocking that the vast majority of humanity have refused to hear and receive the glorious gospel of grace. In the most general sense, Psalm 22 is about a person who is crying out to God to save him from the taunts and torments of his enemies, and (in the last ten verses) thanking God for rescuing him. The Testimony. Eusebius of Caesarea. 26. Poverty, the hatred of men, and the temptation of Satan, joined in the pursuit. A Psalm of David." Likewise, the Psalmist explains: "All who see me sneer at me; They separate with the lip, they wag the head, saying, 'Commit yourself to the Lord; let Him deliver him; Let Him rescue him, because He delights in him,'” (Psalm 22:7-8) The gosp… This Psalm, as it sets out the sufferings of Christ to the full, so also his three great offices. Title. Footnotes [] 22:1 In Hebrew texts 22:1-31 is numbered 22:2-32[] 22:2 Or "night, and am not silent[] 22:3 Or "Yet you are holy," / "enthroned on the praises of Israel[] 22:15 Probable reading of the original Hebrew text; Masoretic Text "strength[] 22:16 Dead Sea Scrolls and some manuscripts of the Masoretic Text, Septuagint and Syriac; most manuscripts of the Masoretic Text "me," / "like a lion So you read, "O my God (saith he), I cry in the day time; but thou hearest not, and in the night season, and am not silent; but thou art holy." May my life reflect eternal love and gratitude. It was possible for Christ by faith to know that he was beloved of God, and he did know that he was beloved of God, when yet as to sense and feeling he tasted of God's wrath. For three long hours time embraced eternity.. as the world was plunged into a thick darkness. Lord, you know what it is for a soul to be forsaken, it was sometime thine own case when you complained, My God, why hast thou forsaken me? then from the desertion of Christ singular consolation springs up to the people of God; yea, manifold consolation. Joseph Symonds, 1658. My God my God why hast Thou forsaken me? There is the implication here of Jesus’ resurrection from the dead by the hand of God Almighty. David cries out and wonders if God has forsaken him. By the Rev. not, O my Lord! Our Lord Jesus is so often compared to a hind, and his cruel huntings are so pathetically described in this most affecting psalm, that we cannot but believe that the title indicates the Lord Jesus under a well known poetical metaphor; at any rate, Jesus is the Hind of the morning concerning whom David here sings. The Emaciation. Our fathers trusted in You; They trusted, and You delivered them. I roar as a lion. What does Psalm 22:19 mean? Principally it's a support in these two respects, as it is preventive of your final desertion, and a comfortable pattern to you in your present sad desertions. Desertion is in itself no sin; for Christ endured its bitterness, aye, he was so deep in it, that when he died, he said, Why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring? John Row. I an deserted but not wronged. Thus did the suffering Messiah pour forth strong crying and tears, to him that was able to save him from death. "Me:" thine innocent, obedient, suffering Son, why leavest thou me to perish? "Why?" The repetition is expressive of fervent desire -- "My God", in an especial sense, as in his words after the resurrection to Mary Magdalene, "I ascend unto my God, and your God;" "My God", not as the Son of God only, but in that nature which he hath assumed, as the beloved Son in whom the Father is well pleased; who is loved of the Father and who loveth the Father more than the whole universe. 17. How shocking that so many legalists do not consider that Christ's sacrificial death was sufficient - and insist that we have to add our own works to His finished work on the cross. It was so sharp, so heavy an affliction to Christ's soul, that it caused him who was meek under all other sufferings as a lamb, to roar under this like a lion. Why hast thou forsaken me? Jesus is forsaken because our sins had separated between us and our God. It will be very readily admitted that the hind is a very appropriate emblem of the suffering and persecuted righteous man who meets us in this Psalm... That the hind may be a figurative expression significant of suffering innocence, is put beyond a doubt by the fact, that the wicked and the persecutors in this Psalm, whose peculiar physiognomy is marked by emblems drawn from the brute creation, are designed by the terms dogs, lions, bulls, etc. Why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring? The first division may be subdivided at the Psalms 22:10 , from Psalms 22:1-10 being an appeal based upon covenant relationship; and from Psalms 22:10-21 being an equally earnest plea derived from the imminence of his peril. Whole Psalm. No matter what caused David to pen this Psalm, we remember the solemn event, which it foreshadowed. JOHN STEVENSON, Perpetual Curate of Curry and Gunwalloe, Cornwall. David and his afflictions may be here in a very modified sense, but, as the star is concealed by the light of the sun, he who sees Jesus will probably neither see nor care to see David. William Gouge, D.D. From Psalms 22:1-21 is a most pitiful cry for help, and from Psalms 22:21-31 is a most precious foretaste of deliverance. The Psalmist is David, the shepherd king of Israel, who rejoices that his hope and strength in the Lord. Jehovah is to be extolled. John Flavel. It was David that was caused to pen these prophetic words, which were uttered by our Saviour on the cross, when He bore the sin of the world in His body on the Tree. Though God forsook Christ, yet at that time he could justify God. What an enquiry is this before us! The Hebrew of Psalm 22:1 reads “eli eli lamah azabthani”. A sight of self seen by penitence, and of Jesus on the cross seen by faith will best expound this question. This was His antidote to despair, and the pledge that God would yet interpose as His Deliverer. Why should God the Son suffer the concentrated horror of those three eternal hours. The anger of God has dried up our spirits, but he was scorched with a more flaming wrath. Why are You so far from … These very words would be uttered about 1,000 years later by the Son of David, … (gaf), seems primarily to denote the roaring of a lion; but, as applied to intelligent beings, it is generally expressive of profound mental anguish poured forth in audible and even vehement strains. Christ voluntarily took upon Himself the responsibility of paying the price for all our sin (committed sins, inherent sin and the inherited sin nature) and God laid on HIM the iniquity of the world. Psalm 22 begins with the most anguished cry in human history: “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” These are the words that Jesus took on His lips at the depth of His suffering on the cross. In his own time he bowed his head and gave up the ghost. Is not thy spirit according to thy measure, framed like Christ's in this; canst thou not, say even when he writes bitter things against thee, he is a holy, faithful and good God for all this! of The Cry. What does this verse really mean? The Satisfaction of the Meek; the Seekers of the Lord Praising Him; the Eternal Life. My God, my God. And Christ (to teach us to cry after God the Father, like children after the mother, whose very stepping but at the door, ofttimes makes the babe believe, and so saith that his father is gone for ever), presents in his own sufferings how much he is sensible of ours in that case. When Christ complains of having been forsaken by God, we are not to understand that he was forsaken by the First Person, or that there was a dissolution of the hypostatic union, or that he lost the favour and friendship of the Father; but he signifies to us that God permitted his human nature to undergo those dreadful torments, and to suffer an ignominious death, from which he could, if he chose, most easily deliver him. Like a lion that is hurt in the forest, so he roared and cried out, though there was no despair in him; and when he was forsaken, yet there was trust and hope in these words, My God, my God. For all who believe on Him, by grace through faith, would be reconciled to God; become eternally saved and forever forgiven, by means of the astonishing atoning sacrifice that Christ made on that singular day. 16. What must have been his anguish to find his own beloved and trusted Father standing afar off, and neither granting help nor apparently hearing prayer! William Streat, in "The Dividing of the Hoof," 1654. He was buried in a new grave; and his assailants reckoned upon complete victory. But he foiled them all. AMEN. 4-6. Psalm 22.1-2. The Acknowledgment. He was surrounded by mean and nasty men ready to devour Him. He had not indeed his smiles, but he had his supports. It is every way as much for the dear Son of God, the darling delight of his soul, to be forsaken of God for a time, as if such a poor inconsiderable thing as thou art shouldest be cast off to eternity. His suffering was unique at that point as He offered Himself up for the sins of His people. A total, a final desertion ours is not; partial the best have had and have. 1 My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?t Why are you so faru from saving me, so far from my cries of anguish?v 2 My God, I cry out by day, but you do not answer,w For plaintive expressions uprising from unutterable depths of woe we may say of this psalm, "there is none like it." 24. Verse 1. The book of Psalms gives us with some of the most beautifully written discourses known to man. Surely enough, at the appointed time, did he escape from the hunter's net, and stand forth on the mountains of Israel ALIVE, and never, NEVER to die again. To what extremity of grief was our Master driven? John Row's "Emmanuel," 1680. This is a kind of gem among the Psalms, and is peculiarly excellent and remarkable. why is this? was the question He screamed - and these poignant words must have reverberated throughout an astonished universe. Richard Capel. It is observed that this expression, "My God," is three times repeated. "A psalm of David." Heaven was hushed and time stood still - and God turned His face away from the Son of His love, in Whom He was well pleased. That face was then hid from him that had always smiled before; and his soul felt that horror and that darkness which it had never felt before. Subject. Psalm 22:1. Christ on the Cross: An Exposition of the Twenty-second Psalm. Psalm 22:1 Translation & Meaning. As for his divine nature, he and his Father can never sunder in that, and so at no time is he alone, but the Father is always with him. The condition of Christ in respect of his human state (not the divine), is in all outward appearances, like ours; we conceive the saints' condition very lamentable at times, as if God were for ever gone. Psalm 22 is a ‘Psalm of Lament’ (prayer) by a person who does not feel the presence of God in the midst of suffering, but rather experiences fear in the face of persecution by enemies. Meaning of Psalm 1 verse by verse. We contrast this with John 16:32 , "I am not alone, because the Father is with me." 18. (Psalm 22:1). It was for our sake that He was forsaken and it was US that he was forced to cry out: My God my God why hast Thou forsaken Me? Nor did such complaints proceed either from impatience or ignorance, as if Christ were ignorant of the cause of his suffering, or was not most willing to bear such abandonment in his suffering; such complaints were only a declaration of his most bitter sufferings. Anyone familiar with the scourging and crucifixion of Jesus Christ can see the obvious parallels, and the writers of the gospel accounts—especially Matthew—bring them out through direct quotations of this psalm. In the rest of the Psalm the kingly office of Christ is set forth. Nailed to the tree we behold our great Redeemer in extremities, and what see we? We must lay the emphasis on every word of this saddest of all utterances. Title. Wherefore this Psalm ought to be most highly prized by all who have any acquaintance with temptations of faith and spiritual conflicts. The church requested to see him "on the mountains of Bether", and upon "the mountains of spices." Jesus uttered these same words while … In Psalm 22:16, it speaks of a man who was numbered with the transgressors, meaning an innocent man being regarded as being one of a group of criminals. 28. Verse 1. (1-2) The cry of the forsaken. WORKS WRITTEN ABOUT THE TWENTY-SECOND PSALM IN SPURGEON'S DAY. My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me? These very words would be uttered about 1,000 years later by the Son of David, Jesus Christ when he was hanging on the cross. With the dagesh, the meaning is almost always the “deer/doe” meaning. The Exhaustion. Whole Psalm. We give the headings, they are suggestive. He is alone and hounded by his enemies. Verse 1. Why did His heavenly Father turn His back on His only begotten Son in Whom He delighted? Verse 1. — In these words Christ, when hanging on the cross, complained, that he was deprived, for a time, of the loving presence and comforting influence of his heavenly Father: and St. Matthew and St. Mark give us the very expressions which he used, Eli, Eli; or, as St. Mark has it, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani. He knows the Lord to be the all sufficient support and succour of his spirit, and therefore appeals to him in the agony of grief, but not in the misery of doubt. But You are holy, Enthroned in the praises of Israel. My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Verse 1. Indeed, this psalm is an appropriate lectionary reading for Good Friday because the Gospels cite and allude to it at least five times in the crucifixion account. Psalm 22:1 King James Version (KJV) 22 My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? "To the chief Musician upon Aijeleth Shahar. How shocking that the truth of the glorious gospel has been so watered down by Christendom in order to make it palatable to seeker-friendly churches. My God. For he was forsaken for you. See Psalms 22:20 and 88:5. Whole Psalm. Compiled & Edited by BibleStudyTools Staff, California - Do Not Sell My Personal Information. Our Father in this deals with us as we ourselves sometimes do with a child that is stubborn and rebellious. We … The Invitation. The Complaint. A prophecy of the passion of Christ, and of the vocation of the Gentiles. Because he was forsaken for a time you shall not be forsaken for ever. This Psalm seems to be less a prophecy than a history. Psalm 42: Psalms 42 and 43 are two psalms that should probably be taken as one for several reasons (42:5, 11 and 43:5), provide a threefold refrain for the poem; the theme is the same. Verse 1 BLESSED IS THE MAN WHO WALKS NOT IN THE COUNSEL OF THE WICKED NOR STAND IN THE WAY OF SINNERS.. When one properly understands Psalm 22, the true Messiah and Savior can be easily discerned. Yet there was reason for all this which those who rest in Jesus as their Substitute well know. It was David that was caused to pen these prophetic words, which were uttered by our Saviour on the cross, when He bore the sin of the world in His body on the Tree. Hebrews 5:7 . His sufferings are copiously described from Psalms 22:1-22 . And sure so great a spirit as Christ's would not have roared under a slight burden. Oh that we could imitate this cleaving to an afflicting God! This may be a great comfort to holy souls under the suspension of those comforts and manifestations which sometimes they have felt; Christ himself underwent such a suspension, therefore such a suspension of divine comfort may consist with God's love. … The Seed. 29. 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