Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Psalms 22:24
Abhorred — He did not turn away his face from it, as men do from things which they abhor. From him — For ever: tho' he did so for a time.
Abhorred — He did not turn away his face from it, as men do from things which they abhor. From him — For ever: tho' he did so for a time.
Verse Psalms 22:24. _FOR HE HATH NOT DESPISED_] It is his property to help and save the poor and the humble; and he rejects not the sighings of a contrite heart. Perhaps it may mean, Though ye have d...
FOR HE HATH NOT DESPISED NOR ABHORRED THE AFFLICTION OF THE AFFLICTED - This expresses the belief that his prayer had been heard. The fact that he had been thus heard is here assigned to be the ground...
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...
THE AFFLICTION. the humiliation. THE AFFLICTED. the patient One....
_For he hath not despised_as men do (Psalms 22:6) _nor abhorred_as something loathsome and abominable (Isaiah 49:7, though the word here is even stronger) _the affliction of the afflicted_. Cp. Psalms...
Already he can imagine himself standing -in the great congregation." These are the words in which he summons them to praise....
Convinced that his prayer is heard, the Psalmist breaks forth with resolutions of public thanksgiving (22 26); and the glorious prospect of Jehovah's universal kingdom opens up before him (27 31). "_T...
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...
_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 P...
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...
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...
These verses contain the substance of the poet’s joyful announcement....
_[Psalms 22:25]_ כִּ֤י לֹֽא ־בָזָ֨ה וְ לֹ֪א...
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...
For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the (o) afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him; but when he cried unto him, he heard. (o) The poor afflicted are comforted by this ex...
Sweet and blessed testimony of our God himself. It is as if Jesus had said, My Father hath not despised, nor abhorred the affliction of me his afflicted One, but hath accepted me, and my offering for...
Psalms 22 _ Proper Psalm for Good Friday_ (_Morning_). PSALMS 22, 23 = _ Day 4_ (_Evening_)....
24._For he hath not despised. _To rejoice in one another’s good, and to give thanks in common for each other’s welfare, is a branch of that communion which ought to exist among the people of God, as P...
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...
FOR HE HATH NOT DESPISED NOR ABHORRED THE AFFLICTION OF THE AFFLICTED,.... That is, Christ, who was afflicted by men, both by their tongues, and by their hands; by devils, by the temptations of Satan...
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. Ver. 24. _For he hath not despised nor abhorred the...
_Ye that fear the Lord, praise him_ Not only for my sake, (they are the words of the risen and exalted Saviour,) but chiefly for your own benefit, received through my deliverance from death, and exalt...
A Prophecy of the Messiah's Glory...
For He hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, the poverty of the poor, the natural, miserable state of all men; NEITHER HATH HE HID HIS FACE FROM HIM, in indifference and ange...
22-31 The Saviour now speaks as risen from the dead. The first words of the complaint were used by Christ himself upon the cross; the first words of the triumph are expressly applied to him, Hebrews...
HE HATH NOT DESPISED: I was despised by the people, PSALMS 22:6, but not by God. NOR ABHORRED, i.e. he did not turn away his face from it, as men do from things which they abhor, but looked upon it wi...
Psalms 22:24 despised H959 (H8804) abhorred H8262 (H8765) affliction H6039 afflicted H6041 hidden H5641 (H8689) face
‘For He has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, nor has He hid His face from Him. But when He cried to Him, He heard.' And the reason why they are to praise God is because He ha...
HE COMES OUT OF HIS SITUATION IN TRIUMPH BECAUSE OF THE KINGLY RULE OF GOD (PSALMS 22:22). The Psalmist now rejoiced in the deliverance of the one about whom he has been speaking. For the result is to...
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...
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...
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....
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 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...
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...
_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 22:22 The singer is confident that when God answers his prayer, he will be vindicated and will again be able to join God’s people in worship. Indeed, ALL THE FAMILIES OF THE NATIO...
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...
Hebrews 5:7; Isaiah 50:6; Luke 23:46; Psalms 116:3; Psalms 118:5;...