_MY GOD, MY GOD, WHY HAST THOU FORSAKEN ME? WHY ART THOU SO FAR FROM HELPING ME, AND FROM THE WORDS OF MY ROARING?_ Title. - UPON AIJALETH SHAHAR - margin, 'the hind of the morning.' The hind, or roe, is the enigmatical emblem of one persecuted to death (Isaiah 13:14). The hind is the emblem of love... [ Continue Reading ]
_O MY GOD, I CRY IN THE DAYTIME, BUT THOU HEAREST NOT; AND IN THE NIGHT SEASON, AND AM NOT SILENT._ Thou hearest not - i:e., answered not. NOT SILENT. God's silence only stimulates Him the more not to be silent. So in the case of the woman of Canaan (Matthew 15:22).... [ Continue Reading ]
_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 faith. Thou art holy, therefore will I trust thee, though I cannot see or feel thy presence. "Holy," as... [ Continue Reading ]
_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 pleads in faith that, as God helped the "fathers" who of old trusted in Him, He cannot but help His tr... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEY CRIED UNTO THEE, AND WERE DELIVERED: THEY TRUSTED IN THEE, AND WERE NOT CONFOUNDED._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_BUT I AM A WORM, AND NO MAN; A REPROACH OF MEN, AND DESPISED OF THE PEOPLE._ But I am a worm, and no man - (note Isaiah 52:14). "But I," in emphatic contrast to all the former servants of God, who 'trusted in God, and were not confounded.' Whenever we feel our worm-like nothingness, let us remembe... [ Continue Reading ]
_ALL THEY THAT SEE ME LAUGH ME TO SCORN: THEY SHOOT OUT THE LIP, THEY SHAKE THE HEAD, SAYING,_ They shoot out the lip - literally, 'they shoot out with their lips' х_ PAATAR_ (H6362), to open, whence the Septuagint and the Vulgate take it, 'they spake with their lips']. They open their lips wide, t... [ Continue Reading ]
_HE TRUSTED ON THE LORD THAT HE WOULD DELIVER HIM: LET HIM DELIVER HIM, SEEING HE DELIGHTED IN HIM._ He trusted. The Hebrew, "He trusted" (gol), is different from that in Psalms 22:4, and is literally, 'He rolled Himself and His case on the Lord;' even as He was "cast upon God from the womb" (Psalm... [ Continue Reading ]
_BUT THOU ART HE THAT TOOK ME OUT OF THE WOMB: THOU DIDST MAKE ME HOPE WHEN I WAS UPON MY MOTHER'S BREASTS._ Thou art he that took me. Here he asserts what he had before implied-namely, that God has had the same care for Him from his earliest being, and is as truly His God as He was the God of the... [ Continue Reading ]
_I WAS CAST UPON THEE FROM THE WOMB: THOU ART MY GOD FROM MY MOTHER'S BELLY._ From the womb. The reference is to the parent receiving the child at birth (Genesis 30:3). 'I fell as it were into thy lap, stretched out to receive at my birth, when otherwise I should have died' (Hengstenberg). THOU A... [ Continue Reading ]
_BE NOT FAR FROM ME; FOR TROUBLE IS NEAR; FOR THERE IS NONE TO HELP._ Be not far from me. The NEARNESS of the trouble, which is all but sinking Him down, is mournfully contrasted with God being FAR off. With this verse He makes the transition from the first part and prepares for the second. It is n... [ Continue Reading ]
_MANY BULLS HAVE COMPASSED ME: STRONG BULLS OF BASHAN HAVE BESET ME ROUND._ Many bulls - implying the strength and violence of His enemies, while he was as the gentle and weak 'hind' (title). STRONG BULLS OF BASHAN - a hilly region (afterward Batanea), east of Gilead, and north of Jordan, abounding... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEY GAPED UPON ME WITH THEIR MOUTHS, AS A RAVENING AND A ROARING LION._ A ravening ... lion - i:e., a tearing lion: one tearing his victim in pieces, and "roaring" (note, Psalms 22:1) in exultation over his prey (Amos 3:4).... [ Continue Reading ]
_I AM POURED OUT LIKE WATER, AND ALL MY BONES ARE OUT OF JOINT: MY HEART IS LIKE WAX; IT IS MELTED IN THE MIDST OF MY BOWELS._ Poured out like water. As in Psalms 22:12 He described His troubles from without, so here, and in Psalms 22:15, He describes His troubles from within. To be "poured out lik... [ Continue Reading ]
_MY STRENGTH IS DRIED UP LIKE A POTSHERD; AND MY TONGUE CLEAVETH TO MY JAWS; AND THOU HAST BROUGHT ME INTO THE DUST OF DEATH._ My strength is dried up - My vital power is like the moisture speedily dried up in a "potsherd " or earthen MY STRENGTH IS DRIED UP - My vital power is like the moisture sp... [ Continue Reading ]
_FOR DOGS HAVE COMPASSED ME: THE ASSEMBLY OF THE WICKED HAVE INCLOSED ME: THEY PIERCED MY HANDS AND MY FEET._ Dogs have compassed me. "Dogs" are peculiarly savage in the East; they prowl about the streets without any owner, and eagerly devour any offal (cf. Psalms 22:20). THEY PIERCED MY HANDS AND... [ Continue Reading ]
_I MAY TELL ALL MY BONES: THEY LOOK AND STARE UPON ME._ I may tell all my bones - rather, not merely I may, but 'I tell' or 'count all my bones;' answering to the heartless act of the enemy. THEY LOOK AND STARE UPON ME, х_ YIR'UW_ (H7200), with _ BIY_ (H871a), expresses looking with delight at an o... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEY PART MY GARMENTS AMONG THEM, AND CAST LOTS UPON MY VESTURE._ They part my garments ... - (Matthew 27:35; John 19:23). The "garments" х_ BªGAADAY_ (H899), _ HIMATIA _ (G2440) in the plural refer to the outer quadrangular wrapper (Numbers 15:38), which was divided into four parts, a part for ea... [ Continue Reading ]
_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 Hebrew is akin to the Hebrew for 'hind' in the title х_ 'AYELET _ (H365)], and that for "My God, m... [ Continue Reading ]
_DELIVER MY SOUL FROM THE SWORD; MY DARLING FROM THE POWER OF THE DOG._ MY SOUL FROM THE SWORD; MY DARLING. "The sword" was not literally drawn against Jesus, but is a figure for the instrument of death (2 Samuel 11:24); and as to Messiah (Zechariah 12:7). "My darling" is shown by the parallelism to... [ Continue Reading ]
_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 and the answer. But the English version emphatically, by the abrupt transition-the prayer gliding in... [ Continue Reading ]
_I WILL DECLARE THY NAME UNTO MY BRETHREN: IN THE MIDST OF THE CONGREGATION WILL I PRAISE THEE._ The blessed results of His deliverance (1), in regard to the spiritual Israel (Psalms 22:22). I WILL DECLARE THY NAME - i:e., thy power, faithfulness, and love, manifested in my deliverance. UNTO MY... [ Continue Reading ]
_YE THAT FEAR THE LORD, PRAISE HIM; ALL YE THE SEED OF JACOB, GLORIFY HIM; AND FEAR HIM, ALL YE THE SEED OF ISRAEL._ Ye that fear the Lord, praise him. He here addresses all Israel as about hereafter truly to "fear the Lord." As leader of the Church's praises, He calls fourth thanksgivings in "the... [ Continue Reading ]
_FOR HE HATH NOT DESPISED NOR ABHORRED THE AFFLICTION OF THE AFFLICTED; NEITHER HATH HE HID HIS FACE FROM HIM; BUT WHEN HE CRIED UNTO HIM, HE HEARD._ He hath not despised - in beautiful contrast to Psalms 22:6, 'I am despised of the people.' Though the people despised me, God 'hath not despised the... [ Continue Reading ]
_MY PRAISE SHALL BE OF THEE IN THE GREAT CONGREGATION: I WILL PAY MY VOWS BEFORE THEM THAT FEAR HIM._ My praise shall be of thee - literally, 'My praise shall be from thee,' as the starting-point of praise and its theme. In the great assembly, antitypical to that of all the tribes assembled for wor... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE MEEK SHALL EAT AND BE SATISFIED: THEY SHALL PRAISE THE LORD THAT SEEK HIM: YOUR HEART SHALL LIVE FOR EVER._ The meek shall eat - namely, "the meek" (or 'the poor' afflicted ones _ `ANAAWIYM_ (H6035), in contrast to "the fat," Psalms 22:29) who shall be invited to the perpetual feast of thanksg... [ Continue Reading ]
_ALL THE ENDS OF THE WORLD SHALL REMEMBER AND TURN UNTO THE LORD: AND ALL THE KINDREDS OF THE NATIONS SHALL WORSHIP BEFORE THEE._ All ... shall remember, and turn unto the Lord. He passes to the conversion of all the Gentile nations, consequent on the conversion of all Israel. They shall then "reme... [ Continue Reading ]
_FOR THE KINGDOM IS THE LORD'S: AND HE IS THE GOVERNOR AMONG THE NATIONS._ The kingdom is the Lord's - though for a time Satan, on account of man's sin, usurps it as "prince of the world." What God really is, He must of necessity soon be acknowledged to be. That consummation shall be when Christ sh... [ Continue Reading ]
_ALL THEY THAT BE FAT UPON EARTH SHALL EAT AND WORSHIP: ALL THEY THAT GO DOWN TO THE DUST SHALL BOW BEFORE HIM: AND NONE CAN KEEP ALIVE HIS OWN SOUL._ All they that be fat - not only the poor and. "meek" of this world, but the rich (as "fattest" is used, Psalms 78:31; an image from fat cattle, Ezek... [ Continue Reading ]
_A SEED SHALL SERVE HIM; IT SHALL BE ACCOUNTED TO THE LORD FOR A GENERATION._ A seed shall serve him - (Isaiah 53:10). As He is the "seed" long promised, so He has a "seed" which springs up from Him spiritually. ACCOUNTED TO THE LORD. Though Christ had no natural offspring, the "seed" just mentio... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEY SHALL COME, AND SHALL DECLARE HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS UNTO A PEOPLE THAT SHALL BE BORN, THAT HE HATH DONE THIS._ Declare his righteousness - i:e., God's faithfulness to His promises in delivering Messiah, and saving His seed. "They," the "seed" or "generation," "shall come" - i:e., go forth on the... [ Continue Reading ]