The prayer for help is repeated after this description of the urgency of his need. But thou, O lord (in emphatic contrast to they in Psalms 22:17), keep not thou far off. The sufferer looks away from his numerous tormentors and fixes his gaze upon Jehovah.
O my strength R.V., O thou my succour.
Verse Psalms 22:19. _BE NOT THOU FAR FROM ME_] In the first verse he asks, _Why hast thou forsaken me_? Or, as if astonished at their wickedness, _Into what hands hast thou permitted me to fall_? Now...
BUT BE NOT THOU FAR FROM ME, O LORD - “O Yahweh.” Others - all others - have forsaken me, and left me to perish. Now, in the day of my desertion and my peril, be thou near to me. See Psalms 22:11. Thi...
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...
LORD *. One of the 134 emendations of the _Sopherim_ (App-32) by which "Jehovah" of the primitive text was changed to "Adonai"....
DISCOURSE: 527 THE SUFFERINGS OF CHRIST Psalms 22:11. Be not far from me, for trouble is near; for there is none to help. Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round. They...
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...
_BUT BE NOT THOU FAR FROM ME, O LORD: O MY STRENGTH, HASTE THEE TO HELP ME._ Be not thou far from me - resuming the key-note of his prayer in Psalms 22:1. O MY STRENGTH, х_ 'ªYAALUWTIY_ (H360)]. The...
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...
DARLING. — See margin. The Hebrew word is used of an only child, Genesis 22:2; Genesis 22:12; Judges 11:34; of a person left desolate, Psalms 25:16;
_[Psalms 22:20]_ וְ אַתָּ֣ה יְ֭הוָה אַל ־תִּרְחָ֑ק...
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 TESTIMONY OF THE DELIVERED Psalms 22:16 In the middle of Psalms 22:21 there is a remarkable change from the plaintive to the triumphant: supplication and entreaty break out into exultation; hope...
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...
It would be a loss of time to continually remark, how impossible it is to preserve any kind of consistency in those scriptures, by keeping up the recollection of David, King of Israel, as being at all...
Psalms 22 _ Proper Psalm for Good Friday_ (_Morning_). PSALMS 22, 23 = _ Day 4_ (_Evening_)....
_THE GREATEST OF THE PASSION PSALMS_ ‘O my Strength, haste Thee to help me!’ Psalms 22:19 I. THERE ARE FEELINGS AND INSTINCTS IN HUMAN NATURE THE VERY ANTIQUITY OF WHICH IS A PROOF OF THEIR UNIVERS...
19._Be not thou, then, far from me, O Jehovah! _We must keep in mind all that David has hitherto related concerning himself. As his miseries had reached the utmost height, and as he saw not even a sin...
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...
BUT BE NOT THOU FAR FROM ME, O LORD,.... Psalms 22:11; O MY STRENGTH; Christ as God is the mighty God, the Almighty; as Mediator, he is the strength of his people; but, as man, God is his strength;...
But be not thou far from me, O LORD: O my strength, haste thee to help me. Ver. 19. _But be not thou far from me, O Lord_] Here he resumeth and reinforceth his former prayer, after a most pathetic de...
_I may tell all my bones_ Theodoret observes, that when Christ was extended, and his limbs distorted, on the cross, it might be easy for a spectator literally to tell all his bones. _They_ Namely, my...
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...
But be not Thou far from Me, O Lord, remaining at a distance; O MY STRENGTH, HASTE THEE TO HELP ME, speedily coming to His assistance....
11-21 In these verses we have Christ suffering, and Christ praying; by which we are directed to look for crosses, and to look up to God under them. The very manner of Christ's death is described, tho...
No text from Poole on this verse....
Psalms 22:19 LORD H3068 far H7368 (H8799) Strength H360 hasten H2363 (H8798) help H5833 But -...
‘But do not be far off, Oh YHWH. Oh You Who are my succour, hurry to my aid.' As the long hours passed, and the battles with evil and sin continued, He cried that God might not be far off but might hu...
THE SUFFERER'S PRAYER FOR DELIVERANCE AND PROVIDES A DESCRIPTION OF HIS PREDICAMENT (PSALMS 22:11). That we are to see some of these descriptions as figurative comes out in Psalms 22:21 where the psal...
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...
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....
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 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 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 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...
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 22:19 DO NOT BE FAR OFF. While recalling God’s past answers to his prayers, the singer asks for relief in his present distress....
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...
Psalms 18:1; Psalms 21:1; Psalms 40:13; Psalms 40:17; Psalms 69:13;...