Psalm 22:1-31 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Psalms 22:1-10

Some think they find Christ in the title of this psalm, upon Aijeleth Shahar?The hind of the morning. Christ is as the swift hind upon the mountains of spices (Song 8:14), as the loving hind and the pleasant roe, to all believers (Prov. 5:19); he giveth goodly words like Naphtali, who is compared to a hind let loose, Gen. 49:21. He is the hind of the morning, marked out by the counsels of God from eternity, to be run down by those dogs that compassed him, Ps. 22:16. But others think it denotes... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Psalms 22:11-21

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. I. Here is Christ suffering. David indeed was often in trouble, and beset with enemies; but many of the particulars here specified are such as were never true of David, and therefore must be appropriated to Christ in the depth of his humiliation. 1. He is here deserted by his friends: Trouble and distress are near, and there is none to help, none to... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Psalms 22:22-31

The same that began the psalm complaining, who was no other than Christ in his humiliation, ends it here triumphing, and it can be no other than Christ in his exaltation. And, as the first words of the complaint were used by Christ himself upon the cross, so the first words of the triumph are expressly applied to him (Heb. 2:12) and are made his own words: I will declare thy name unto my brethren, in the midst of the church will I sing praise unto thee. The certain prospect which Christ had of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 22:1

My God, my God ,.... God is the God of Christ as he is man; he prepared a body for him, an human nature; anointed it with the oil of gladness; supported it under all its sorrows and sufferings, and at last exalted it at his own right hand:, and Christ behaved towards him as his covenant God; prayed to him, believed in him, loved him, and was obedient to him as such; and here expresses his faith of interest in him, when he hid his face from him, on account of which he expostulates with him... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 22:2

O my God, I cry in the daytime ,.... In the time of his suffering on the cross, which was in the daytime: but thou hearest me not ; and yet he was always heard, John 11:41 ; though he was not saved from dying, yet he was quickly delivered from the power of death, and so was heard in that he feared, Hebrews 5:7 ; and in the night season : in the night in which he was in the garden, sorrowing and praying, the night in which he was betrayed and was apprehended; and though the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 22:3

But thou art holy ,.... Which may be considered either as an argument with his God, why he should hear and answer him, since he is holy, just, and faithful; he has promised, when any call upon him in a day of trouble, he will hear and answer them, and will be glorified by them; this Christ did, and therefore pleads his faithfulness to his promise: or rather a reason quieting him under divine desertion, and a sense of divine wrath, that God was righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 22:4

Our fathers trusted in thee ,.... By whom are meant Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, from whom our Lord descended; and the people of Israel when in Egypt, in the times of the judges, and in all ages before the coming of Christ, of whom, as concerning the flesh, or as to his human nature, Christ came, Romans 9:5 ; these, as they were sojourners, and went from place to place, especially the patriarchs, and were often in trouble and distress, when they called upon the Lord, looked to him, and put... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 22:5

They cried unto thee, and were delivered ,.... As the Israelites did in Egyptian bondage, and as they in later times did when in distress; see Exodus 2:23 ; &c.; The crying is to be understood of prayer to God, and sometimes designs mental prayer, sighing, and groaning, which cannot be uttered, when no voice is heard, as in Moses, Exodus 14:15 ; but oftener vocal prayer, put up in times of distress, and denotes the vehemency of trouble, and eagerness of desire to be heard and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 22:6

But I am a worm, and no man ,.... Christ calls himself a worm, not because of his original, for he was not of the earth earthy, but was the Lord from heaven; nor because of his human nature, man being a worm, and the Son of Man such, Job 25:6 ; and because of his meanness and low estate in that nature, in his humiliation; nor to express his humility, and the mean thoughts he had of himself, as David, his type, calls himself a dead dog, and a flea, 1 Samuel 24:14 ; but on account of the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 22:7

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... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Psalms 22:1-10

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Psalms 22:11-21

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Psalms 22:22-31

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 22:1

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 22:2

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 22:3

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 22:4

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 22:5

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 22:6

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 22:7

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