Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Psalms 22:30
(t) A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation.
(t) Meaning, the prosperity which the Lord keeps as a seed to the Church to continue his praise among men.
(t) A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation.
(t) Meaning, the prosperity which the Lord keeps as a seed to the Church to continue his praise among men.
Verse Psalms 22:30. _SHALL BE ACCOUNTED TO THE LORD FOR A GENERATION._] They shall be called _Christians_ after the name of Christ....
A SEED SHALL SERVE HIM - A people; a race. The word used here, and rendered “seed” - זרע _zera‛_ - means properly “a sowing;” then, a planting, a plantation; then. seed sown - of plants, trees, or gra...
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...
A SEED. Septuagint and Vulg, read "My seed". Compare Isaiah 53:10. ACCOUNTED TO. recounted of. FOR. GENERATION. unto. generation that shall come (reading the first part of Psalms 22:31 with the end o...
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...
The Psalmist's hopes take a wider range, extending to all mankind and to future ages. He anticipates the time when not he alone, not the seed of Israel only, but all nations to earth's remotest bound,...
_It shall be accounted_&c. i.e. as R.V. marg., _It shall be counted unto the Lord for_his _generation_. Better, however, as R.V. text, It shall be told of the Lord unto the _next_generation. But here...
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...
_A SEED SHALL SERVE HIM; IT SHALL BE ACCOUNTED TO THE LORD FOR A GENERATION._ A seed shall serve him - (Isaiah 53:10). As He is the "seed" long promised, so He has a "seed" which springs up from Him...
22:30 generation. (c-15) Or 'it shall be told concerning the Lord to the [coming] generation.' but see Psalms 87:6 ....
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...
IT SHALL BE ACCOUNTED, etc.] RV 'It shall be told of the Lord unto the _next_ generation.'...
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...
A SEED... — _Better, Posterity shall serve Him. About Jehovah it shall be told to the_ (coming) _generation._ The article makes for this interpretation. Others, as in Psalms 87:6, understand a referen...
_[Psalms 22:31]_ זֶ֥רַע יַֽעַבְדֶ֑נּוּ יְסֻפַּ֖ר לַֽ אדֹנָ֣י...
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...
Here is a beautiful variety of terms and descriptions, to point out the glories of the Lord Jesus, in the fulness and greatness of his salvation, and the felicity and happiness of his church, saved an...
Psalms 22 _ Proper Psalm for Good Friday_ (_Morning_). PSALMS 22, 23 = _ Day 4_ (_Evening_)....
30._Their seed shall serve him. _The more to exalt the greatness of the benefit, he declares that it will be of such a character that posterity will never forget it. And he shows how it will come to b...
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...
A SEED SHALL SERVE HIM,.... That is, Christ shall always have a seed to serve him in every age; a remnant according to the election of grace; see Romans 9:29; so that as the former verses speak of the...
A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation. Ver. 30. _A seed shall serve him_] And be saved by him, a remnant reserved for royal use, a chosen generation, Rom 9:20 Isa...
_A seed shall serve him_ Christ shall not want a seed or posterity, for though the Jewish nation will generally reject him, the Gentiles shall come in their stead. _It shall be accounted for a generat...
A Prophecy of the Messiah's Glory...
A seed, a holy, chosen seed, consecrated to Him, SHALL SERVE HIM, pledged to His ministry; IT SHALL BE ACCOUNTED TO THE LORD FOR A GENERATION. As generation succeeds generation, there will always be s...
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...
Christ shall not want a seed or posterity, HEBREWS 2:13; for though the Jewish nation should generally reject and forsake him, which may seem to be here implied, Christ shall have many disciples or fo...
Psalms 22:30 posterity H2233 serve H5647 (H8799) recounted H5608 (H8792) Lord H136 generation H1755 A seed -...
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...
‘A seed will serve Him. It will be told of the Lord unto the next generation. They will come and will declare His righteousness, to a people who will be born, that he has done it.' And a seed will ser...
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...
_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...
_A seed shall serve Him._ GOOD MEN AS SEEDS This figurative expression signifies Christ and His people, who yield true obedience to God,--they are called by this name in a spiritual and figurative, b...
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...
1 Peter 2:9; Galatians 3:26; Hebrews 2:13; Isaiah 53:10; Matthew 3:9;
A seed — Christ shall not want a seed or posterity, for though the Jewish nation will generally reject him, the Gentiles shall come in their stead. A generation — That believing seed shall be reputed...