Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Psalms 22:11-21
The Psalmist pleads for help with intenser earnestness. The virulence of his foes increases. Strength and endurance are exhausted.
The Psalmist pleads for help with intenser earnestness. The virulence of his foes increases. Strength and endurance are exhausted.
Verse Psalms 22:11. _BE NOT FAR FROM ME; FOR TROUBLE IS NEAR_] A present God is a present blessing. We always need the Divine help; but more especially when troubles and trials are at hand....
BE NOT FAR FROM ME - Do not withdraw from me; do not leave or forsake me. FOR TROUBLE IS NEAR - Near, in the sense that deep sorrow has come upon me; near, in the sense that I am approaching a dreadf...
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...
NONE TO HELP. Compare Psalms 69:20. He was alone in this wondrous work....
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...
FOR THERE IS NONE TO HELP— See Isaiah 53:3; Isaiah 63:3. John 16:32....
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...
_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 o...
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...
_[Psalms 22:12]_ אַל ־תִּרְחַ֣ק מִ֭מֶּנִּי כִּי ־צָרָ֣ה...
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...
Here Christ evidently throws himself upon the covenant engagements. Isaiah 43:1; Psalms 89:21....
Psalms 22 _ Proper Psalm for Good Friday_ (_Morning_). PSALMS 22, 23 = _ Day 4_ (_Evening_)....
11._Depart not far from me. _Here he employs another argument to induce God to show him mercy, alleging that he is sorely pressed and hemmed in by the greatest distress. He doubtless set before his ey...
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...
BE NOT FAR FROM ME,.... Who had been so near unto him, as to take him out of the womb, and to take the care of him ever since; this is to be understood not with respect to the omnipresence of God, who...
Be not far from me; for trouble [is] near; for [there is] none to help. Ver. 11. _Be not far from me, for trouble is near_] And so it is high time for thee to put forth a helping hand. _Hominibus pro...
_Be not far from me_ As to affection and succour; _for trouble is near_ At hand, and ready to swallow me up; _for there is none to help_ Thy help therefore will be the more seasonable, because it is m...
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...
Be not far from Me, for trouble is near, a most terrible distress was threatening; FOR THERE IS NONE TO HELP, no human being, no creature, to bring Him relief. Instead of finding helpers among men in...
NONE TO HELP: _ Heb._ not a helper...
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...
BE NOT FAR FROM ME, to wit, as to affection and succour. TROUBLE IS NEAR _at hand_, and ready to swallow me up; and therefore if thou dost not speedily deliver me, it will be too late; which is an arg...
Psalms 22:11 far H7368 (H8799) trouble H6869 near H7138 help H5826 (H8802) Be not - Psalms 10:1
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...
‘Do not be far from me, for trouble is near, for there is none to help.' So in His extremity He cried that God would not be too far from Him. For He was aware of what He must face, and that there was...
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...
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 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 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...
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...
_Be not far from me; for trouble is near; for there is none to help._ HELP IN TROUBLE In this Psalm “a greater than David is here,” even Christ. You cannot pay a visit to Calvary, while reading this...
_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 22:9 The singer again recalls the past, as in vv. Psalms 22:3, but this time it is more personal. In effect he tells the Lord, “Not only have you been faithful to our ancestors in...
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...
Deuteronomy 32:36; Hebrews 5:7; John 16:32; Matthew 26:56; Matthew