Psalm 22

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Psalms 22:29

All they that be fat upon the earth - The general meaning of this verse is, that “all classes of persons” will come and worship the true God; not the poor and needy only, the afflicted, and the oppressed, but the rich and the prosperous. There are three classes mentioned as representing all:(1) the rich and prosperous;(2) they who bow down to the dust, or the crushed and the oppressed;(3) those who are approaching the grave, and have no power to keep themselves alive.The first class comprises... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Psalms 22:30

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 grain; and then, a generation of men - children, offspring, posterity: Genesis 3:15; Genesis 13:16; Genesis 15:5, Genesis 15:13; et al. Hence, it means a race, stock, or family. It is used here as denoting those who belong to the family of God; his children. Compare Isaiah 6:13; Isaiah 65:9, Isaiah... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Psalms 22:31

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... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Psalms 22

A.M. 2944. B.C. 1060. It is confessed, that David was a type of Christ, and that many Psalms, or passages in the Psalms, though properly and literally understood of David, yet had a further and mystical reference to Christ, in whom also they were accomplished. But there are some other Psalms, or passages in the Psalms, which, either by the sacred penman of them, or, at least, by the Holy Ghost inspiring him, were directly and immediately intended for, and are properly and literally understood... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Psalms 22:1

Psalms 22:1. My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? In these words Christ, when hanging on the cross, complained, that he was deprived, for a time, of the loving presence and comforting influence of his heavenly Father: and St. Matthew and St. Mark give us the very expressions which he used, Eli, Eli; or, as St. Mark has it, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani. It is perhaps worthy of notice here, that sabachthani is not a Hebrew word; the Hebrew word being עזבתני , gnazabtani; and... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Psalms 22:2

Psalms 22:2 . I cry in the day-time, &c. I continue praying night and day without intermission; but thou hearest not St. Paul says, Hebrews 5:7, that Christ was heard in that he feared. Christ therefore here says that his Father heard him not, only to intimate that he did not exempt him from suffering the death of the cross, for which the Father, who heard him always, had wise reasons, taken from the end for which his Son became incarnate, John 12:27. And am not silent Hebrew, ... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Psalms 22:3

Psalms 22:3. But thou art holy “But notwithstanding thou dost not answer me at present, I am persuaded that thou wilt do so, for thou art holy, good, and gracious;” O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel That dwellest in the place where the praises of Israel have always been offered for mercies granted unto them: or, who receivest and rightly possessest the praises of Israel; whom thy people are perpetually praising for one mercy or another; and therefore, I trust I also shall have... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Psalms 22:4-5

Psalms 22:4-5. Our fathers, &c. That is, my fathers, according to the flesh, the Israelites; trusted in thee, and were delivered Were not disappointed of that for which they prayed and hoped: but whenever they cried unto thee in their distress, thou didst send them deliverance, as by Gideon, Samson, Samuel, &c. To trust in God is the way to obtain deliverance, and “the former instances of the divine favour are so many arguments why we should hope for the same; but it may not... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Psalms 22:6

Psalms 22:6. But I am a worm, and no man Neglected and despised, as a mean reptile; a reproach of men, and despised of the people Not only of the great men, but also of the common people. This does not so truly agree to David (who, though he was hated and persecuted by Saul and his courtiers, was honoured and beloved by the body of the people) as to Christ: see Isaiah 53:2-3. “Christ may be said to have been a worm. with respect to the mean and poor condition in which he lived; but... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Psalms 22:7

Psalms 22:7. All they that see me laugh me to scorn Instead of pitying, or helping, they deride and insult over me: such is their inhumanity; they shoot out the lip They gape with their mouths, and put forth their tongues in mockery; they shake the head Another custom of scoffers. This and the next verse are applied to Christ, (Matthew 27:39; Matthew 27:43,) in whom they were literally fulfilled when he hung upon the cross; and the priests and elders used the very words that had been... read more

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Psalms 22:29

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Psalms 22:30

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Psalms 22:31

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Psalms 22

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Psalms 22:1

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Psalms 22:2

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Psalms 22:3

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Psalms 22:4-5

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Psalms 22:6

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Psalms 22:7

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