Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Psalms 22:20
Darling — Heb. my only one; his soul, which he so calls, because it was left alone and destitute of friends and helpers.
Darling — Heb. my only one; his soul, which he so calls, because it was left alone and destitute of friends and helpers.
Verse Psalms 22:20. _DELIVER MY SOUL FROM THE SWORD_] Deliver נפשי _naphshi,_ _my life_; save me alive, or raise me again. _MY DARLING_] יחידתי _yechidathi, my only one_. The only human being that w...
DELIVER MY SOUL FROM THE SWORD - The word soul here means life, and denotes a living person. It is equivalent to “deliver me.” “The sword” is used to denote an instrument of death, or anything that pi...
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...
SOUL. Hebrew. _nephesh._ App-13. DARLING. only one. Hebrew. _yahid._ See note on Deuteronomy 6:4. = my one own priceless possession; put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Subject), App-6, for "my li...
_from the sword_ From a violent death. _my darling_ Lit., _my only one_. The clue to the meaning is given by the use of the word of _an only child_(Genesis 22:2; Judges 11:34). The word denotes the on...
The Psalmist pleads for help with intenser earnestness. The virulence of his foes increases. Strength and endurance are exhausted....
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...
_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 dea...
22:20 power (a-12) Lit. 'the hand.'...
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...
MY DARLING] RM 'my only one,' my precious life. FROM.. THE DOG] cp. John 19:16....
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...
_[Psalms 22:21]_ הַצִּ֣ילָה מֵ חֶ֣רֶב נַפְשִׁ֑י מִ...
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...
Deliver my soul from the sword; my (l) darling from the power of the dog. (l) My life that is solitary, left alone and forsaken by all, (Psalms 35:17; Psalms 25:16)...
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_)....
_THE POWER OF THE DOG 1_ ‘Deliver … my darling from the power of the dog.’ Psalms 22:20 The word dog in the Scriptures often means a wicked person. It has that meaning in the text. David is speakin...
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...
DELIVER MY SOUL FROM THE SWORD,.... Wicked men, whose tongues were as a sharp sword, reproaching and blaspheming him, and bearing false witness against him; and crying out, "Crucify him, crucify him",...
Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog. Ver. 20. _Deliver my soul from the sword_] _i.e._ From desperate and deadly danger, from the wicked, which is thy sword, Psalms 1...
_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...
Deliver My soul from the sword, from the murderous weapons, from the instruments of torture; MY DARLING, His precious life, FROM THE POWER OF THE DOG, the low and mean tormentors....
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 DARLING: _ Heb._ my only one FROM THE POWER: _ Heb._ from the hand...
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...
FROM THE SWORD, i.e. from the rage and violence of mine enemies, as the next clause explains it, and as the sword is oft taken in Scripture. See JEREMIAH 25:16,27,29 EZE 38:21. MY DARLING, Heb. _my on...
Psalms 22:20 Deliver H5337 (H8685) Me H5315 sword H2719 precious H3173 power H3027 dog H3611 soul -...
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...
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...
_Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog._ THE DOG Dogs in the East are not much thought of, and never properly treated. The varieties with which we are familiar they kn...
_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...
Psalms 17:13; Psalms 35:17; Psalms 22:16; Zechariah 13:7...