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Matthew Henry Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 22 - Introduction

* Complaints of discouragement. (1-10) With prayer for deliverance. (11-21) Praises for mercies and redemption. (22-31)

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See also Psalms 22 - Introduction in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    I. “The author of the psalm.” This psalm is said to have been composed by David: “A Psalm of David;” compare the notes at the title of Psalms 3:1. It cannot be absolutely demonstrated that these title...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The first and greatest of the -Passion Psalms," consecrated for us by our Lord's appropriation of it to Himself. His utterance of the opening words of it upon the Cross has been thought with much prob...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    1:1 seat (a-27) Or 'in the company.'...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    XXII. The fact that Jesus uttered from His cross the words of bitter woe that begin this poem, have given and must ever give it a special interest and importance. It was natural that Christian sentime...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 22 TO THE CHIEF MUSICIAN UPON AIJELETH SHAHAR, A PSALM OF DAVID. The only thing observable in the title of this psalm is the sense of the words "Aijeleth Shahar", left untransla...

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

    _A.M. 2944. B.C. 1060._ It is confessed, that David was a type of Christ, and that many Psalms, or passages in the Psalms, though properly and literally understood of David, yet had a further and mys...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    As we come to this psalm we can only stop and wonder. For if we had found it as a fragment with no date attached in some Egyptian papyrus pile we would instantly have assigned its first half as a desc...

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