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Hawker's Poor man's commentary

Psalms 22:3

This is a sweet verse. Jesus proclaimeth the holiness of God the Father in the midst of his sufferings. As the sinner's surety, he bore the whole weight of sin, and the punishment due to it, Oh! how precious is the holiness of God, beheld in this point of view! It is a glorious part of Jehovah's character, that he will by no means clear the guilty, Exodus 34:7. And rather than this holiness of God shall be slighted, the Surety shall suffer, shall die. Reader, do you enter into the precious apprehension of this blessed truth? Do you behold Jesus, and Jesus as your Surety, taking all your guilt, and all the curse due to the sinner, upon him, because of God's broken law, and thus expiating both the sin and punishment by the sacrifice of himself? Do you see this, believe in this, and feel your interest in it? If so, surely you will admire and adore God's holiness, and humbly adopt the same words as your Saviour did, and cry out, Thou, Lord, art holy; O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel!

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See also Psalms 22:3 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Psalms 22:3. _BUT THOU_ ART _HOLY_] Though I be not heard, even while I cry earnestly, yet I cannot impute any fault or unkindness to my Maker; for _thou art holy_, and canst do nothing but what...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    BUT THOU ART HOLY - Thou art righteous and blameless. This indicates that the sufferer had still unwavering confidence in God. Though his prayer seemed not to be heard, and though he was not delivered...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

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  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    BUT THOU. And yet Thou. Compare Psalms 22:9 and Psalms 22:19. Note the emphasis. HOLY. See note on Exodus 3:6. Here. the Divine attribute. INHABITEST THE PRAISES. "Praises" put by Figure of speech _M...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The pleading cry of the forsaken and persecuted servant of God....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    An appeal to God's moral character, as the Holy One of Israel. The Heb. word for _holy_is derived from a root signifying _separation_. It characterises God negatively, as separate from the limitations...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    BUT THOU ART HOLY, &C.— But notwithstanding thou dost not hear me at present, I am persuaded that thou wilt do so; for thou art holy, &c. good and gracious; the divinity that dwellest where the praise...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _BUT THOU ART HOLY, O THOU THAT INHABITEST THE PRAISES OF ISRAEL._ But thou art holy. He, in unshaken faith, proclaims God's holiness at the very time when God was seeming to disregard the cry of fai...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE PRAISES OF ISRAEL] which have deservedly surrounded God in the past, and which He will not cease to deserve by ceasing to deliver His people. The thought is expanded in Psalms 22:4; Psalms 22:5....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    BUT. — In spite of his seeming desertion the poet still believes Jehovah is the God of the covenant — still the Holy One in whom His people could trust. The phrase “inhabiting the praises of Israel,”...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    _[Psalms 22:4]_ וְ אַתָּ֥ה קָדֹ֑ושׁ יֹ֝ושֵׁ֗ב תְּהִלֹּ֥ות...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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.

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    But thou [art] holy, [O thou] that inhabitest the (c) praises of Israel. (c) He means the place of praising, even the tabernacle or else it is so called, because he gave the people continuous opportu...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

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  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

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  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

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  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    BUT THOU [ART] HOLY,.... Which may be considered either as an argument with his God, why he should hear and answer him, since he is holy, just, and faithful; he has promised, when any call upon him in...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    But thou [art] holy, [O thou] that inhabitest the praises of Israel. Ver. 3. _But thou art holy_] And therefore to be sanctified in righteousness, Isaiah 5:16, whatever betide me or my prayers. I als...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _But thou art holy_ “But notwithstanding thou dost not answer me at present, I am persuaded that thou wilt do so, for thou art holy, good, and gracious;” _O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel_...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    But Thou art holy, and His holiness is acknowledged by the Messiah even in the depths of His suffering, O THOU THAT INHABITEST THE PRAISES OF ISRAEL, praised in all of Israel's hymns of thanksgiving,...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THOU ART HOLY, i. e just and true in all thy ways, and therefore hearing prayers, and keeping thy covenant; a true lover of holiness, and of all holy men. This he adds, either, 1. To aggravate his mi...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Psalms 22:3 holy H6918 Enthroned H3427 (H8802) praises H8416 Israel H3478 But - Psalms 145:17;...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘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...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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....

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

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  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _But Thou art holy, O Thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel._ A HABITATION OF GOD There is ordinarily something like a proportion maintained between the power of a monarch and the splendour of h...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Deuteronomy 10:21; Isaiah 6:3; Psalms 50:23; Psalms 65:1; Psalms 145

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    But thou art — Just and true in all thy ways, this he adds to strengthen his faith, and to enforce his prayers, and prevail with God for the honour of his holy name, to hear and help him. Inhabitest —...

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