Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Psalms 22:7
Shoot out — They gape with their mouths, in mockery. This and the next verse are applied to Christ, Matthew 27:39, Matthew 27:43.
Shoot out — They gape with their mouths, in mockery. This and the next verse are applied to Christ, Matthew 27:39, Matthew 27:43.
Verse Psalms 22:7. _LAUGH ME TO SCORN_] They utterly despised me; set me at naught; treated me with the utmost contempt. _Laugh to scorn_ is so completely antiquated that it should be no longer used;...
ALL THEY THAT SEE ME LAUGH ME TO SCORN - They deride or mock me. On the word used here - לעג _lâ‛ag_ - see the notes at Psalms 2:4. The meaning here is to mock, to deride, to treat with scorn. The id...
Psalms 22 The Sufferings of Christ and the Glory That Follows _ 1. The suffering (Psalms 22:1)_ 2. The glory (Psalms 22:22) P
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...
ALL. Figure of speech _Synecdoche_ (of Genus), App-6, put for most or greater part. (Some believed.) SHOOT OUT. open....
The pleading cry of the forsaken and persecuted servant of God....
The contrast of his own lot....
_laugh me to scorn_ LXX. ἐξεμυκτήρισαν, the word used by St Luke (Luke 23:35) of the rulers scoffing at Christ. They gape with their lips (Job 16:10; Psalms 35:21); they shake the head ...
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...
_ALL THEY THAT SEE ME LAUGH ME TO SCORN: THEY SHOOT OUT THE LIP, THEY SHAKE THE HEAD, SAYING,_ They shoot out the lip - literally, 'they shoot out with their lips' х_ PAATAR_ (H6362), to open, whence...
SHOOT OUT THE LIP.. SHAKE THE HEAD] gestures of contempt and hatred....
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...
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...
LAUGH ME TO SCORN. — LXX., ἐξεμυκτήρισάν_,_ the verb used by St. Luke in his description of the crucifixion (Luke 23:35). SHOOT OUT THE LIP. — Literally, _open with the lip_ (Psalms 35:21; Job 16:10)....
_[Psalms 22:8]_ כָּל ־רֹ֭אַי יַלְעִ֣גוּ לִ֑י יַפְטִ֥ירוּ...
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...
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.
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...
Whence, Reader, is it, that while the fathers were made happy, Christ was thus treated, but because he stood in their law place, and endured the very curse which the law denounced against the sinner?...
Psalms 22 _ Proper Psalm for Good Friday_ (_Morning_). PSALMS 22, 23 = _ Day 4_ (_Evening_)....
7._All those who see me mock at me, etc., _(505) This is an explanation of the preceding sentence. He had said that he was an object of scorn to the lowest of men, and, as it were, to the refuse of th...
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...
ALL THEY THAT SEE ME LAUGH ME TO SCORN,.... To the afflicted pity should be shown; but instead or pitying him in his distresses they laughed at him; this must be understood of the soldiers when they h...
All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, [saying], Ver. 7. _All they that see me laugh me to scorn_] _Contemptus populi ludibriis et opprobriis declaratur,...
_All they that see me laugh me to scorn_ Instead of pitying, or helping, they deride and insult over me: such is their inhumanity; _they shoot out the lip_ They gape with their mouths, and put forth t...
THE MESSIAH IN HIS GREAT PASSION. A Prophecy of the Messiah's Suffering. To the chief musician upon Aijeleth Shahar, that is, "Of the hind of the dawn," a psalm of David. The words "Of the hind of th...
All they that see Me laugh Me to scorn, making Him a target of their blasphemous mockery, Cf Luke 23:35; THEY SHOOT OUT THE LIP, in a grimace conveying their contempt; THEY SHAKE THE HEAD, wagging it...
SHOOT: _ Heb._ open...
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...
LAUGH ME TO SCORN; instead of pitying or helping, deride me, and insult over me; such is their inhumanity. THEY SHOOT OUT THE LIP; they gape with their mouths, and put forth their tongues, in mockery....
Psalms 22:7 see H7200 (H8802) ridicule H3932 (H8686) out H6358 (H8686) lip H8193 shake H5128 ...
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...
‘All they who see me laugh me to scorn. They shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying, “Commit Yourself to YHWH. Let Him deliver Him. Let Him rescue Him, seeing He delights in Him.” Those who ga...
ALL THEY THAT SEE ME Psalm 22 is a graphic picture of death by crucifixion. The bones (of the hands, arms, shoulders, and pelvis) out of joint (Psalms 22:14) the profuse perspiration caused by intens...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
_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...
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...
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 22:6 In contrast to God’s past faithfulness (vv. Psalms 22:3), the singer has been mocked by his fellow Israelites (v....
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...
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...
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...
Isaiah 37:22; Isaiah 37:23; Isaiah 57:4; Job 16:10; Job 16:4;...