Psalms 22:8

-Roll it upon Jehovah! let him deliver him:

Let him rescue him, for he delighteth in him."

Ironically they bid the sufferer -roll" i.e. commit his cause to Jehovah. The verb is certainly imperative, as in Psalms 37:5; Proverbs 16:3; though the Versions all give the perfect tense, and the words are quoted in that form in Matthew 27:43. Usage makes it certain that the subject in the last clause is Jehovah, as in Psalms 18:19.

There is a remarkable parallel to this passage in Wis 2:16 ff. The ungodly say of the righteous man: "He maketh his boast that God is his Father. Let us see if his words be true, and let us prove what shall happen in the end of him. For if the just man be the son of God, he will help him, and deliver him from the hand of his enemies." The whole passage is worth comparing.