The thought of the preceding line is developed in an appeal to the past history of the nation. Cp. Psalms 44:1; Psalms 78:3; Psalms 9:10. -Thou didst deliver them: why then am I deserted?" The emphasis is throughout on thee.
In thee did our fathers trust:
They trusted, and thou didst deliver them.
Unto thee did they cry, and escaped:
In thee did they trust, and were not put to shame.
Verse Psalms 22:4. _OUR FATHERS TRUSTED IN THEE_] David is supposed to have been, at the time of composing this Psalm, at _Mahanaim_, where Jacob was once in such great distress; where he wrestled wi...
OUR FATHERS TRUSTED IN THEE - This is a plea of the sufferer as drawn from the character which God had manifested in former times. The argument is, that he had interposed in those times when his peopl...
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...
TRUSTED. confided. Hebrew. _batah._ See App-69....
OUR FATHERS, &C.— i.e. My fathers, according to the flesh: the Israelites, to whom, whenever they cried unto thee in their distress, thou sentest a deliverer; such as Gideon, Samson, Samuel, &c....
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...
_OUR FATHERS TRUSTED IN THEE: THEY TRUSTED, AND THOU DIDST DELIVER THEM._ Our fathers trusted in thee. Since God is the same unchanging Yahweh at all times, in relation to His people, the sufferer pl...
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...
_[Psalms 22:5]_ בְּ֭ךָ בָּטְח֣וּ אֲבֹתֵ֑ינוּ בָּ֝טְח֗וּ וַֽ...
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...
Walk. In the greatest temptations, we may resist by God's grace. (Worthington) --- Midst. Hebrew, "in the valley." The greatest darkness, and the most horrible precipices, give no alarm to those who a...
One of the most blessed thoughts, in confirmation of Jesus acting as the surety of his people, and his people receiving all the blessings and benefits of that suretyship, is the testimony the Holy Gho...
Psalms 22 _ Proper Psalm for Good Friday_ (_Morning_). PSALMS 22, 23 = _ Day 4_ (_Evening_)....
4._Our fathers trusted in thee. _Here the Psalmist assigns the reason why God sitteth amidst the praises of the tribes of Israel. The reason is, because his hand had been always stretched forth to pre...
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...
OUR FATHERS TRUSTED IN THEE,.... By whom are meant Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, from whom our Lord descended; and the people of Israel when in Egypt, in the times of the judges, and in all ages before t...
_Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them._ Ver. 4. _Our fathers trusted in thee_] They trusted, and trusted, and trusted, they lengthened out their trust. The Hebrew wo...
_Our fathers_, &c. That is, my fathers, according to the flesh, the Israelites; _trusted in thee, and were delivered_ Were not disappointed of that for which they prayed and hoped: but whenever they c...
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...
Our fathers trusted in Thee; they trusted, and Thou didst deliver them, showing His mighty deliverance time and again....
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...
This he adds for the reasons mentioned in the first note, PSALMS 22:3....
Psalms 22:4 fathers H1 trusted H982 (H8804) trusted H982 (H8804) delivered H6403 (H8762)...
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...
‘But You are holy, O You Who inhabits the praises of Israel. Our fathers trusted in You. They trusted, and You delivered them. They cried to You, and were delivered. They trusted in You, and were not...
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...
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 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....
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...
_Our fathers trusted in Thee._ The God of our fathers. A sermon to young men The age in which we live is an enlightened age. And no man is bound to be religious for no better reason than that his fa...
_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...
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...
1 Samuel 7:9; Exodus 14:13; Exodus 14:14; Exodus 14:31; Genesis 15:6;...