Psalms 22:1 KJV — MannaFest

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?

KJV

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ASV

My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Why art thou sofar from helping me, and from the words of my groaning?

WEB

My God, my God, why have You forsaken me? Why are You so far from saving me, so far from my words of groaning?

YLT

To the Overseer, on `The Hind of the Morning.' --A Psalm of David. My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me? Far from my salvation, The words of my roaring?

DBT

MyGod, myGod, why hast thou forsaken me? [why art thou] far from my salvation, from the words of my groaning?

About this book

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Psalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.

Author: David principally (73 Psalms + 2 NT-cited); Asaph, Sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan; ~50 anonymous.
Date: Composed c. 1400 BC (Mosaic Ps 90) through the post-exilic period (Ps 126 ''when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion''). Roughly a millennium of composition; editorial compilation likely into the Persian period.

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Matthew 27:46
And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
Mark 15:34
And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? which is, being interpreted, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
Hebrews 5:7
Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;
Psalms 22:16
For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.
Psalms 13:1
How long wilt thou forget me, O Lord? for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?

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A summary of the complaint. Desertion by God, when overwhelmed by distress, is the climax of the sufferer's misery. words of my roaring--shows that the complaint is expressed intelligently, though the term "roaring" is figurative, taken from the conduct of irrational creatures in pain.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

God delivered him into the hands of his enemies; it was by his determinate counsel that he was crucified and slain, and he did not give in sensible comforts. But, Christ having made himself sin for us, in conformity thereunto the Father laid him under the present impressions of his wrath and displeasure against sin.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

), where David, as a type of Christ, complains of the very calamitous condition he was in upon many accounts. He complains, and mixes comforts with his complaints; he complains (

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

My God - Who art my friend and father, though now thou frownest upon me. The repetition denotes, the depth of his distress, which made him cry so earnestly. Forsaken - Withdrawn the light of thy countenance, the supports and comforts of thy spirit, and filled me with the terrors of thy wrath: this was in part verified in David, but much more fully in Christ.

John Wesley (NT Notes)· Explanatory Notes upon the Bible, 1765evangelical

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Where this verse connects

Prophecy Typological Matthew 27:46
class=direct-citation-of-lament, tier=3; COUNTERPOINT: Ps 22 is an individual lament (R6, both columns).
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Genre Metalepsis Matthew 27:46
Jesus quotes the lament's FIRST LINE; the form licenses reading the whole psalm's arc (v.16, v.18, v.22). CONTESTED: Porter/Hays authorial-intent caution.
Gunkel; Hays
Genre Form Sibling Psalms 69:1
both individual laments, both drawn on in the Passion; shared dereliction-to-vindication arc. FLOOR.
Gunkel
Quotation Mark 15:34
'Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani' — Jesus (Mark's Aramaic).
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The quotation web

Quoted in MAT 27:46
'My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?' — cry of dereliction (invokes whole Psalm 22)
Quoted in MRK 15:34
'Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani' — cry of dereliction

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Word trails from this verse

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

PSA 22:1MAT 27:46 HEB 5:7
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
PSA 22:1MAT 27:46 PSA 71:11
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
PSA 22:1MAT 27:46 ISA 53:10
PSA 22:1HEB 5:7 MAT 27:46
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
PSA 22:1MAT 27:46 MRK 15:34
PSA 22:1MAT 27:46 JHN 19:28-30
PSA 22:1PSA 22:16 JHN 19:37
PSA 22:1HEB 5:7 LUK 22:41-44

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