Commentaries Dictionaries Concordances

Kretzmann's Popular Commentary

Psalms 22:9

But Thou art He that took Me out of the womb, the unshaken trust of the Messiah in the God of His salvation appearing here; Thou didst make Me hope, causing Him to trust with full confidence, when I was upon My mother's breasts, in earliest infancy.

Continues after advertising

See also Psalms 22:9 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Psalms 22:9. _BUT THOU ART HE THAT TOOK ME OUT OF THE WOMB_] Thou hast made me; and hast guided and defended me from my earliest infancy....

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    BUT THOU ART HE THAT TOOK ME OUT OF THE WOMB - I owe my life to thee. This is urged by the sufferer as a reason why God should now interpose and protect him. God had brought him into the world, guardi...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    Psalms 22 The Sufferings of Christ and the Glory That Follows _ 1. The suffering (Psalms 22:1)_ 2. The glory (Psalms 22:22) P

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    XXII. This Ps. (p. 372) consists of two parts. In Psalms 22:1 a godly man in deep and manifold distress complains that the God of his fathers, the God who has been with him from the beginning, has des...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    MAKE. cause. HOPE. trust, or confide. Hebrew. _batah._ App-69....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The pleading cry of the forsaken and persecuted servant of God....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _But thou_art _he_ Rather, Yea, thou art he. The mocking words of his enemies are true, and he turns them into a plea. All his past life has proved Jehovah's love. Cp. Psalms 71:5-6. _thou didst make...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    BUT THOU ART HE, &C.— It was by the particular order of his Father that Christ came into the world; and therefore he said at his entrance into it, _Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    PSALMS 22 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE The Voice of a Forsaken SuffererLoudly Lamenting his Lot, Minutely Describing his Pain and Shame, without Reproaching God or Accusing Himselfis Suddenly Silenced (in Deat...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _BUT THOU ART HE THAT TOOK ME OUT OF THE WOMB: THOU DIDST MAKE ME HOPE WHEN I WAS UPON MY MOTHER'S BREASTS._ Thou art he that took me. Here he asserts what he had before implied-namely, that God has...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    The Ps. has two sections, in the first of which (Psalms 22:1) the writer earnestly seeks God's help in a time of extreme trouble, while in the second (Psalms 22:22) he breaks into a song of thanksgivi...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    Psalms 1:41 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ Words in boxes are from the Bible. The notes explain some of the words with a *star by them. Tap the * before a word to show an explanation. The translated Bible tex...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    BUT. — Better, _For._ Faith that turns to God in spite of derision is the best answer to derision. THOU DIDST MAKE ME HOPE. — Better, _thou didst make me repose on my mother’s breast. _...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    _[Psalms 22:10]_ כִּֽי ־אַתָּ֣ה גֹחִ֣י מִ בָּ֑טֶן...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    Psalms 22:1 WHO is the sufferer whose wail is the very voice of desolation and despair, and who yet dares to believe that the tale of his sorrow will be a gospel for the world? The usual answers are g...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    THE CRY OF THE FORSAKEN Psalms 22:1 The Hebrew inscription of this exquisite ode is, “The hind of the morning.” The hind is the emblem of loveliness; see Song of Solomon 2:7; Song of Solomon 2:9.

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Whatever may have been the local conditions creating this psalm, it has become so perfectly and properly associated with the one Son of God that it is almost impossible to read it in any other way. Th...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    But thou [art] he that took me out of the (e) womb: thou didst make me hope [when I was] upon my mother's breasts. (e) Even from my birth you have given me opportunity to trust in you....

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    The miraculous conception and birth of Christ, for the purpose of redemption, hath numberless particularities in it, which make these expressions peculiarly suited to our Lord, Compare Psalms 40:6 wit...

  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

    Psalms 22 _ Proper Psalm for Good Friday_ (_Morning_). PSALMS 22, 23 = _ Day 4_ (_Evening_)....

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    9._Surely thou. _David again here raises a new fortress, in order to withstand and repel the machinations of Satan. He briefly enumerates the benefits which God had bestowed upon him, by which he had...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    Here the sufferings of Christ have another and deeper character. We have before us that great work which is the foundation of all the blessing developed in the other psalms, and of every blessing and...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    BUT THOU [ART] HE THAT TOOK ME OUT OF THE WOMB,.... The Papists affirm, that there was something miraculous in the manner of Christ's coming into the world, as well as in his conception; that his conc...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    But thou [art] he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope [when I was] upon my mother's breasts. Ver. 9. _But thou art he that took me out of the womb_] When, but for thine almighty mid...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Thou art he_, &c. This seems to refer to the miraculous conception of Christ, who was the Son of God, in a sense in which no other man ever was, being formed, as to his human nature, by the power of...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    DIDST MAKE ME HOPE: Or, keptest me in safety...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-10 The Spirit of Christ, which was in the prophets, testifies in this psalm, clearly and fully, the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow. We have a sorrowful complaint of God's wi...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    This is noted as an effect of God's wonderful and gracious providence. And although this be a mercy which God grants to all mankind, yet it may well be alleged here, partly in way of gratitude for thi...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Psalms 22:9 took H1518 (H8801) womb H990 trust H982 (H8688) mothers H517 breasts H7699 that took -...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    A CRY OF DESPAIR FROM THE HEART, FROM ONE WHO YET HOPES IN GOD (PSALMS 22:1). 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 roa...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘But You are He who took me out of the womb. You made me trust when I was on my mother's breasts. I was cast on you from the womb. You are my God since my mother bore me.' Yet in it all He could not...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    This Psalm so sweetly and so accurately pictures the inward griefs of our Divine Saviour that it might have been written after the crucifixion rather than so many hundreds of years before it. I call y...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Psalms 22:1. _My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?_ What a dolorous cry! How terrible it must have been to have heard that cry, but how much more terrible to have uttered it! For the dear Son o...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    You will not need any comment on this Psalm if, while we read it, you see Christ on the cross, and you think that you hear him uttering these sacred words. This Psalm is dedicated» to the Chief Musici...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    This Psalm is a sort of window, through which we can look into the heart of our crucified Saviour. We see all the external part of the crucifixion through the four windows of the Gospels; but this 22...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    This Psalm is headed, «To the chief Musician upon Aijeleth Shahar,» or, as the margin renders it, «the hind of the morning,» «A Psalm of David,» It begins in the very depths of the Master's sorrow, wh...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    This marvellous Psalm is a wonderful prophecy, which might seem as if it had been composed after the suffering of our Lord; yet it was written many hundreds of years before his incarnation and death....

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Stand and look up at Christ upon the cross, and look upon these words, as his. He himself is the best exposition of this wondrous psalm. Psalms 22:1. _My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why a...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: David in great perplexity cries for help. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: Trouble and perplexity drive us to earnest prayer and earnest prayer drives away trouble and perplexity. To fa...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Psalms 22:1. _My God, my God._ The LXX, Ο Θεος ο Θεος μου. The Chaldaic is like the English. The Hebrew forms the superlative degree by repetition. Example: “The heaven, and the heaven of heavens cann...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Thou art He that took me out of the womb._ DAVID’S ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF GOD’S GOODNESS 1. He takes notice of common mercies. Such mercies as most men are partakers of. To come safe and sound into the...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me?_ THE PROPHETIC IMAGE OF THE PRINCE OF SUFFERERS Who is the sufferer whose wail is the very voice of desolation and despair, and who yet dares to believe th...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 22:1. This psalm appears to be an individual lament. The singer has been attacked by unscrupulous people and mocked by those who should feel sympathy. Nevertheless, he looks...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 22:9 The singer again recalls the past, as in vv. Psalms 22:3, but this time it is more personal. In effect he tells the Lord, “Not only have you been faithful to our ancestors in...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    INTRODUCTION “The subject of this psalm is the deliverance of a righteous sufferer from his enemies, and the effect of this deliverance on others. It is so framed as to be applied without violence to...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION THERE is no psalm which has raised so much controversy as this. Admitted to be Messianic by the early Hebrew commentators, it is by some understood wholly of David; by others, applied to th...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Psa 22:1-31 is one of those prophetic psalms which stands out probably among all of the Messianic psalms. This psalm is again a psalm of David, and it is a very graphic description of death by crucifi...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Isaiah 49:1; Isaiah 49:2; Isaiah 7:14; Isaiah 7:15; Isaiah 9:6;...

Continues after advertising