Psalms 22:8 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 22:8

He trusted on the Lord that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.

KJV

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ASV

Commit thyself unto Jehovah; let him deliver him: Let him rescue him, seeing he delighteth in him.

WEB

“He trusts in the LORD, let the LORD deliver him; let the LORD rescue him, since He delights in him.”

YLT

`Roll unto Jehovah, He doth deliver him, He doth deliver him, for he delighted in him.'

DBT

Commit it to Jehovah — let him rescue him; let him deliver him, because he delighteth in him!

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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Messianic PsalmsMy God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me — the crucifixion psalm.

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Psalms 37:5
Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass.
Matthew 27:42–43
He saved others; himself he cannot save. If he be the King of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe him.
Mark 15:30–32
Save thyself, and come down from the cross.
Matthew 27:43
He trusted in God; let him deliver him now, if he will have him: for he said, I am the Son of God.
Psalms 149:4
For the Lord taketh pleasure in his people: he will beautify the meek with salvation.

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), 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

They make mouths at him, make merry over him, and make a jest of his sufferings: They shoot out the lip, they shake their head, saying, This was he that said he trusted God would deliver him; now let him deliver him. David was sometimes taunted for his confidence in God; but in the sufferings of Christ this was literally and exactly fulfilled.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

This is the language of enemies sporting with his faith in the hour of his desertion. Though ironically spoken, the exhortation to trust was well founded on his previous experience of divine aid, the special illustration of which is drawn from the period of helpless infancy. didst make me hope--literally, "made me secure."

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

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