Psalms 22:31

_THEY SHALL COME, AND SHALL DECLARE HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS UNTO A PEOPLE THAT SHALL BE BORN, THAT HE HATH DONE THIS._ Declare his righteousness - i:e., God's faithfulness to His promises in delivering Messiah, and saving His seed. "They," the "seed" or "generation," "shall come" - i:e., go forth on the theater of the world (Hengstenberg). THAT SHALL BE BORN - `that shall have been (then) born'-namely, in the next generation (cf. Psalms 102:18). THAT HE HATH DONE THIS - namely, that God hath completed redemption in the deliverance of Christ. That work was consummated virtually when the light of the Father's countenance returned upon Christ just before His death. In allusion to this verse, as He began with "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" (Psalms 22:1), so

31._They shall come, and shall declare. _The Psalmist here confirms what I have previously stated, that since the fathers will transmit the knowledge of this benefit to their children, as it were from hand to hand, the name of God will be always renowned. From this we may also deduce the additional truth, that it is by the preaching of the grace of God alone that the Church is kept from perishing. At the same time, let it be observed, that care and diligence in propagating divine truth are here enjoined upon us, that it may continue after we are removed from this world. As the Holy Spirit prescribes it as a duty incumbent on all the faithful to be diligent in instructing their children, that there may be always one generation after another to serve God, the sluggishness of those who have no scruple of conscience in burying the remembrance of God in eternal silence, a sin with which those...

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 2:12. All our praises must refer to the work of redemption. The suffering of the Redeemer was graciously accepted as a full satisfaction for sin. Though it was offered for sinful men, the Father did not despise or abhor it for our sakes. This ought to be the matter of our thanksgiving. All humble, gracious souls should have a full satisfaction and happiness in him. Those that hunger and thirst after righteousness in Christ, shall not labour for that which satisfies not. Those that are much in praying, will be much in thanksgiving. Those that turn to God, will make conscience of worshipping before him. Let every tongue confess that he is Lord. High and low, rich and poor, bond and free, meet...

Verse Psalms 22:31. _UNTO A PEOPLE THAT SHALL BE BORN_] That is, one generation shall continue to announce unto another the true religion of the Lord Jesus; so that it shall be for ever propagated in the earth. Of his kingdom there shall be no end. ANALYSIS OF THE TWENTY-SECOND PSALM This Psalm concerns the Messiah, his passion, and his kingdom. Though, in some sense, it, may be applied to David as a _type_, yet _Christ_ is the _thing signified_, and therefore it is primarily and principally verified of and in him; for he is brought in here, speaking, _First_, Of his _dereliction_; then showing his _passion_, and the _cruelty_ of his enemies. _Secondly, Entreating_ ease and _deliverance_ from his sufferings. Thirdly, Promising thanks

THEY SHALL COME - That is, there were those who would thus come. Who these would be is not specified. The obvious sense is, that some would rise up to do this; that the succession of such men would be kept up from age to age, making known these great facts and truths to succeeding generations. The language would be applicable to a class of men called, from age to age, to proclaim these truths, and set apart to this work. It is a fair application of the verse to refer it to those who have been actually designated for such an office - the ministers of religion appointed to keep up the memory of the great work of redemption in the world. Thus understood, the passage is a proper carrying out of the great truths stated in the psalm - that, in virtue of the sufferings of the Redeemer, God would be made known to men; that his worship would be kept up in the earth; that distant generations would...

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 the Israelite people, or to the pious part of it; by others again, regarded as an ideal representation of the sufferings of the righteous man, and the effects of them; and by one or two eccentric critics, explained as referring to Hezekiah or Jeremiah. Against the view that David means to describe in the psalm his own dangers, sufferings, and deliverance, it is reasonably urged that David was at no time in the circumstances here described—he was never without a helper (Psalms 22:11); never "despised of the people" (Psalms 22:6); never stripped of his clothes ...

THEY SHALL COME,.... One generation after another; there shall always be a succession of regenerate persons, who shall come to Christ, and to his churches; and a succession of Gospel ministers among them, who shall come forth, being sent and qualified by Christ; AND SHALL DECLARE HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS, either the faithfulness of God, in fulfilling his promises; especially those which respect the mission of Christ, and salvation by him, as Zacharias did, Luke 1:68; or rather the righteousness of Christ, which is revealed in the Gospel, and makes a most considerable part of the declaration of it, and is published by Gospel ministers in all ages, as the only justifying righteousness before God: and that UNTO A PEOPLE THAT SHALL BE BORN; in successive generations; that shall be brought upon the stage of time and life; or that shall be born again; for to such only, in

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 art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring? O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent._ Gethsemane! there is the key a prayer unanswered at that time: «If it be possible, let this cup pass from me.» It was not possible. He must drink it. «In the night season I am not silent.» Psalms 22:3. _But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel._ No hard thoughts of God, even when he was forsaken. A forsaken Christ still clings to the Father, and ascribes perfect holiness to him

Psalms 22 The Sufferings of Christ and the Glory That Follows _ 1. The suffering (Psalms 22:1)_ 2. The glory (Psalms 22:22) Psalms 22:1. In many respects this Psalm is the most remarkable in the entire book and one of the sublimest prophecies in the whole Bible. The sufferings of Christ and the glory that should follow are here wonderfully foretold. The inscription mentions A yeleth Shahar, which means “the hind of the morning.” Jewish tradition identifies this hind with the early morning light, when the day dawns and the rays of the rising sun appear like the horns of the hind. The eminent Hebraist Professor Deli

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 deserted him (see p. 372). Psalms 22:22 is a liturgical addition: it expresses the pious Israelite's gratitude for Israel's glory, which is to be acknowledged even by the heathen. No attempt is made to bridge the gulf between the despair of Psalms 22:1 and the confidence of the added verses, which depict Israel's prosperity as already come. PSALMS 22:3. The LXX read, Thou dwellest in the holy place, O thou that art Israel's praise,