Psalms 22:7

_ALL THEY THAT SEE ME LAUGH ME TO SCORN: THEY SHOOT OUT THE LIP, THEY SHAKE THE HEAD, SAYING,_ They shoot out the lip - literally, 'they shoot out with their lips' х_ PAATAR_ (H6362), to open, whence the Septuagint and the Vulgate take it, 'they spake with their lips']. They open their lips wide, to pour forth all insults (Isaiah 57:4). THEY SHAKE THE HEAD - a gesture implying that there is no hope for the sufferer, at whom they contemptuously sneer (Job 16:4; Psalms 44:14)....

7._All those who see me mock at me, etc., _(505) This is an explanation of the preceding sentence. He had said that he was an object of scorn to the lowest of men, and, as it were, to the refuse of the people. He now informs us of the ignominy with which he had been treated, — that not content with opprobrious language, they also showed their insolence by their very gesture, both by shooting out their lips, (506) and by shaking their heads. As the words which we render_they thrust out the lip, _is, in the Hebrew, _they open with the lip, _(507) some explain them as meaning _to rail. _But this view does not appear to me to be appropriate; for the letter ב _, beth, _which signifies _with, _is here superfluous, as it often is in the Hebrew. I have therefore preferred rendering the ori

1-10 The Spirit of Christ, which was in the prophets, testifies in this psalm, clearly and fully, the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow. We have a sorrowful complaint of God's withdrawings. This may be applied to any child of God, pressed down, overwhelmed with grief and terror. Spiritual desertions are the saints' sorest afflictions; but even their complaint of these burdens is a sign of spiritual life, and spiritual senses exercised. To cry our, My God, why am I sick? why am I poor? savours of discontent and worldliness. But, "Why hast thou forsaken me?" is the language of a heart binding up its happiness in God's favour. This must be applied to Christ. In the first words of this complaint, he poured out his soul before God when he was upon the cross, Matthew 27:46. Being truly man, Christ felt a natural unwillingness to pass through such great sorrows, yet his ze...

Verse Psalms 22:7. _LAUGH ME TO SCORN_] They utterly despised me; set me at naught; treated me with the utmost contempt. _Laugh to scorn_ is so completely antiquated that it should be no longer used; _derided,_ _despised, treated with contempt_, are much more expressive and are still in common use. _THEY SHOOT OUT THE LIP, THEY SHAKE THE HEAD_] This is applied by St. Matthew, Matthew 27:39, to the conduct of the Jews towards our Lord, when he hung upon the cross; as is also the following verse. But both are primarily true of the insults which David suffered from Shimei and others during the rebellion of Absalom; and, as the cases were so similar, the evangelist thought proper to express a similar conduct to Jesus Christ by the same expressions. These insults

ALL THEY THAT SEE ME LAUGH ME TO SCORN - They deride or mock me. On the word used here - לעג _lâ‛ag_ - see the notes at Psalms 2:4. The meaning here is to mock, to deride, to treat with scorn. The idea of laughing is not properly in the word, nor would that necessarily occur in the treatment here referred to. How completely this was fulfilled in the case of the Saviour, it is not necessary to say. Compare Matthew 27:39, “And they that passed by, reviled him.” There is no evidence that this literally occurred in the life of David. THEY SHOOT OUT THE LIP - Margin, “open.” The Hebrew word - פטר _pâṭar_ - means properly “to split, to burst open;” then, as in this place, it

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 ...

ALL THEY THAT SEE ME LAUGH ME TO SCORN,.... To the afflicted pity should be shown; but instead or pitying him in his distresses they laughed at him; this must be understood of the soldiers when they had him in Pilate's hall, and of the Jews in general when he hung upon the cross; some particular persons must be excepted, as John the beloved disciple, the mother of our Lord, Mary Magdalene, and some other women, who stood afar off beholding him; THEY SHOOT OUT THE LIP; or "open with the lip" y; they made mouths at him, they put out their lips, or gaped upon him with their mouths, and in a way of sport and pastime made wide mouths and drew out their tongues, as in Job 16:10; THEY SHAKE THE HEAD, [SAYING]; in a way of scorn and derision, as in Lamentations 2:15. This

Psalms 22:1. _My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?_ What a dolorous cry! How terrible it must have been to have heard that cry, but how much more terrible to have uttered it! For the dear Son of God, the Well-beloved, with whom the Father is always pleased, to be forsaken of his God, was indeed grief unfathomable. Psalms 22:1. _Why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?_ It seems as if the Saviour's voice, and almost his mind, had failed him, for he calls his prayer «roaring» likening himself to a wounded beast. When any of you cannot pray, or think you cannot, remember these words of your Lord. If he, the ever-blessed Son of God, speaks of his own prayer as a «roaring», what must ours be! You know that Isaiah spoke of his own prayer as b

ALL THEY THAT SEE ME Psalm 22 is a graphic picture of death by crucifixion. The bones (of the hands, arms, shoulders, and pelvis) out of joint (Psalms 22:14) the profuse perspiration caused by intense suffering (Psalms 22:14); the action of the heart affected (Psalms 22:14); strength exhausted, and extreme thirst (Psalms 22:15); the hands and feet pierced (Psalms 22:16) partial nudity with hurt to modesty (Psalms 22:17), are all incidental to that mode

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