Thou hast heard me] a sudden conviction of faith which gives a new tone to the rest of the Ps. Unicorns] RV 'wild-oxen.' In this and the preceding v. the figures of John 19:12; John 19:16 (bulls, lions, dogs) are repeated.
Verse Psalms 22:21. _SAVE ME FROM THE LION'S MOUTH_] Probably our Lord here includes his _Church_ with himself. The _lion_ may then mean the _Jews;_ the _unicorns_, רמים remin (probably the _rhinocer...
SAVE ME FROM THE LION’S MOUTH - His enemies represented as fierce and ravening lions, compare Psalms 22:13, FOR THOU HAST HEARD ME - The word “heard” in this place is equivalent to “saved” - or saved...
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...
LION'S. See note on "They pierced" (Psalms 22:16). FOR. Yea. HEARD ME. answered me. Compare Psalms 22:2. Supply Ellipsis, "[and delivered me]". FROM THE HORNS, &C. This clause may be joined on to th...
The Psalmist pleads for help with intenser earnestness. The virulence of his foes increases. Strength and endurance are exhausted....
_for thou hast heard me_&c. Render, yea from the horns of the wild oxen thou hast answered me. A singularly bold and forcible construction. We expect a second imperative, repeating the prayer for deli...
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...
DELIVER MY SOUL, &C.— Bishop Hare observes, that in these two verses the Psalmist recapitulates the four things that he had before mentioned, and to which he had compared his enemies; the _sword,_ the...
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...
_SAVE ME FROM THE LION'S MOUTH: FOR THOU HAST HEARD ME FROM THE HORNS OF THE UNICORNS._ Save me from the lion's mouth: for thou hast heard me. Horsley proposed a distinctive pause between the prayer...
22:21 me. (b-17) Or 'Answer me.'...
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...
UNICORNS. — See Numbers 23:22; either “buffaloes” or “antelopes.” There is some uncertainty about the translation of the second clause of this verse. It may be (1) “And from the horns of buffaloes hea...
_[Psalms 22:22]_ הֹ֭ושִׁיעֵנִי מִ פִּ֣י אַרְיֵ֑ה וּ...
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...
(m) Save me from the lion's mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns. (m) Christ is delivered with a more mighty deliverance by overcoming death, than if he had not tasted death a...
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_)....
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...
SAVE ME FROM THE LION'S MOUTH,.... Either the devil, who is as a roaring lion, whom Christ overcame both in the garden and on the cross, and destroyed him and his works; or all his wicked enemies, esp...
Save me from the lion's mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns. Ver. 21. Save me from the lion's mouth] 2 Timothy 4:17. David was oft snatched out of death's mouth, and so was C...
_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...
Save Me from the lion's mouth, Satan himself being referred to here; FOR THOU HAST HEARD ME FROM THE HORNS OF THE UNICORNS, the wild oxen representing all His fierce enemies. The Messiah is so confide...
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...
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...
THE LION; either the devil, that raging and roaring lion, who did many ways assault and annoy him; or his lionlike enemies. HEARD ME, i.e. answered and delivered me. UNICORN; a strong, and fierce, and...
Psalms 22:21 Save H3467 (H8685) lions H738 mouth H6310 horns H7161 oxen H7214 answered H6030 (H8804)...
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...
‘Deliver my soul from the sword, My darling from the power of the dog. Save me from the lion's mouth, yes, from the horns of the wild-oxen You have answered me.' A victim of the sword of Rome, and the...
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 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...
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...
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....
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...
1 Peter 5:8; 2 Timothy 4:17; Acts 4:27; Acts 5:30; Deuteronomy 33:17;
Heard — Answered and delivered me....