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Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Psalms 22:12

(12) Bulls of Bashan.—For “Bashan” see Numbers 21:33; for its pastures and cattle, comp. Deuteronomy 32:14, and for the figures, Amos 4:1. Instead of “fat bulls,” the LXX. and Vulgate paraphrase “strong ones of Bashan.” The point of the comparison lies in the wantonness and insolence of pampered pride, displayed by the minions of fortune. read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Psalms 22:1-31

The Future of the Christian Church Psalms 22:27 What is to be the future of the Church of Christ on earth? Is the kingdom of God advancing and still to advance? Often it seems to the faithful that they are in presence of a standstill, or even of a retrogression. They are tried, strained, surprised at the slow victories of faith. It seems as if the Gospel were slighted, put aside, failing of its full effect Sometimes they have days of glorious triumph, but often the heart sinks before the... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Psalms 22:1-31

Psalms 22:1-31WHO 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 given. The title ascribes the authorship to David, and is accepted by Delitzsch and others. Hengstenberg and his followers see in the picture the ideal righteous man. Others think of Hezekiah, or Jeremiah, with whose prophecies and history there are many points of connection. The most recent... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Psalms 22:1-31

Psalms 22:0 The Sufferings of Christ and the Glory That Follows 1. The suffering (Psalms 22:1-21 ) 2. The glory (Psalms 22:22-31 ) Psalms 22:1-21 . 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... read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Psalms 22:12

22:12 Many bulls have compassed me: strong {g} [bulls] of Bashan have beset me round.(g) He means that his enemies were so fat, proud and cruel that they were more like beasts than men. read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Psalms 22:1-31

Psalms 18:0 A song of victory. It opens with ejaculatory expressions of triumph for deliverance. All nature is described as convulsed when the Almighty presses to the rescue. The next division is meditation on the principles involved, the whole closing with a further outburst of triumph and confidence. 2 Samuel 22:0 is a copy of this ode saying a few variations, and the student is referred to our treatment of it at that place. Psalms 19:0 God’s revelation in the world and in the Word. We have a... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Psalms 22:12-21

It would be a loss of time to continually remark, how impossible it is to preserve any kind of consistency in those scriptures, by keeping up the recollection of David, King of Israel, as being at all personally represented in these and the like accounts. David never was in the situation here described; and therefore I do request the Reader, once for all, to forget David, unless as a type of Christ, and wholly look to Him, whom David, as a prophet, and under the spirit of prophecy, is so... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 22:11-21

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, though not in use among the Jews. They pierced his hands and his feet, which were nailed to the accursed tree, and his whole body was left so to hang as to suffer the most severe pain and torture. His natural force failed, being wasted by the fire of Divine wrath preying upon his spirits. Who then can... read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Psalms 22:1-21

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 the dawn" refer either to the melody or chant according to which this psalm was to be rendered, or they summarize the contents. As the hind is the emblem of the hunted soul panting for deliverance, so the dawn pictures the deliverance which follows the dark night of misery and wretchedness. In the... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Psalms 22:1-31

Psalms 22:0To the chief Musician upon Aijeleth Shahar, A Psalm of David1          My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?Why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?2     O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou nearest not;And in the night season, and am not silent.3     But thou art holy,O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel.4     Our fathers trusted in thee:They trusted, and thou didst deliver them.5     They cried unto thee, and were delivered:They... read more

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