Dried — I have in a manner no more moisture left in me, than is in a dry potsherd. Cleaveth — Through excessive thirst and drought. Death — Thy providence, delivering me into the power of mine enemies, and by thy terrors in my soul.
Verse Psalms 22:15. _MY STRENGTH IS DRIED UP_] All these expressions mark a most distressed and hopeless case. _INTO THE DUST OF DEATH._] This means only that he was _apparently_ brought nigh to the...
MY STRENGTH IS DRIED UP LIKE A POTSHERD, - A “potsherd” is a fragment of a broken pot, or a piece of earthenware. See Isaiah 45:9, note; and Job 2:8, note. The meaning here is, that his strength was n...
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...
DRIED UP. Compare John 19:28....
The Psalmist pleads for help with intenser earnestness. The virulence of his foes increases. Strength and endurance are exhausted....
The effects of anxiety and persecution. Vital strength and courage fail; his frame is racked and tortured; he is reduced to a skeleton....
The vital sap and moisture of the body are dried up. Cp. Psalms 32:4. Possibly for _my strength_we should read _my palate_. Cp. Psalms 69:3. _thou hast brought me_ Thou art laying me. Even in this per...
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...
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...
_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 d...
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...
The parching effects of a fever supply another metaphor for the Psalmist's trouble....
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...
MY STRENGTH. — The conjecture, “my palate,” instead of “my strength,” improves the parallelism. Others, but not so happily, “my moisture.” THE DUST OF DEATH. — Comp. Shakespeare’s “Macbeth:” “The wa...
_[Psalms 22:16]_ יָ֘בֵ֤שׁ כַּ † חֶ֨רֶשׂ ׀ כֹּחִ֗י...
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 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.
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...
My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou (i) hast brought me into the dust of death. (i) You permitted me to be without all hope of life....
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_)....
15._My strength is dried up. _He means the vigor which is imparted to us by the radical moisture, as physicians call it. What he adds in the next clause, _My tongue cleaveth to my jaws, _is of the sam...
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...
MY STRENGTH IS DRIED UP LIKE A POTSHERD,.... The radical moisture of his body was dried up through his loss of blood and spirits, and through the violent fever upon him, brought on him by his being hu...
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. Ver. 15. _My strength is dried up like a potsherd_] My spirits are utterly...
_I am poured out like water_ My spirits are spent and gone like water, which, once spilt, can never be recovered; my very flesh is melted within me, and I am become as weak as water. _My bones are out...
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...
My strength is dried up like a potsherd, all his vitality having left Him; AND MY TONGUE CLEAVETH TO MY JAWS, in the agony of burning thirst from which He suffered on the cross; AND THOU HAST BROUGHT...
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...
I have in a manner no more radical moisture left in me than is in a dry potsherd. MY TONGUE ELEAVETH TO MY JAWS, through that excessive thirst and drought. See 1 THESSALONIANS 19:20. THOU HAST BROUGHT...
Psalms 22:15 strength H3581 up H3001 (H8804) potsherd H2789 tongue H3956 clings H1692 (H8716) jaws H4455 brought...
‘My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue cleaves to my jaws, and You have brought me into the dust of death.' His body had been toughened by His manner of life, but now all His strength...
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...
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...
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 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....
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...
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...
_They pierced my hands and my feet._ OUR LORD’S PASSION The great mystery of the passion of our Lord is one which in all its fulness the human mind cannot comprehend. In what manner His sufferings pu...
_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 22:12 The singer’s enemies are bent on evil like BULLS (v. Psalms 22:12), a LION (v....
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 Corinthians 15:3; Daniel 12:2; Genesis 18:27; Genesis 3:19; Is