Psalms 22:9
in Psalms 22Yet You brought me forth from the womb; You made me secure at my mother’s breast.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
But thou art he that took me out of the womb; Thou didst make me trust when I was upon my mother’s breasts.
KJV
But thou art he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother’s breasts.
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This verse in Psalms 22
Commentary
11 notes on this versePsalm 22 reads as if it was dictated, first person singular, as He hung on the cross, even though it was written 700 years earlier.
This site's exposition
You brought me forth from the womb
on Psalms 22:9-11
Answering the taunt, the sufferer goes back to the womb, where God brought him out and held him safe at the breast. God has been his God from birth, before he could trust anyone. Verse 11 asks one thing, that God not stay far off.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers1 voice
"Since You are He who drew Me out of the womb" [Psalm 22:9]. Since You are He who drew Me, not only out of that Virgin womb (for this is the law of all men's birth, that they be drawn out of the womb), but also out of the womb of the Jewish nation; by the darkness whereof he is covered, and not yet born into the light of Christ, whosoever places his salvation in the carnal observance of the Sabbath, and of circumcision, and the like. "My hope from My mother's breasts." "My hope," O God, not from the time when I began to be fed by the milk of the Virgin's breasts; for it was even before; but from the breasts of the Synagogue, as I have said, out of the womb, You have drawn Me, that I should not suck in the customs of the flesh.
The Medieval Church1 voice
"For." Next the cause of the confusion is set forth; and regarding this he does two things. First, he sets forth the cause. Second, he breaks forth into prayer: "Do not depart." The cause of derision is customarily foolishness. Hence worldly people consider good men …
The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices
), 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 (
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): Men despise me, but thou art he that took me out of the womb. David and other good men have often, for direction to us, encouraged themselves with this, that God was not only the God of their fathers, as before (
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4 more voices on this verse
The Nineteenth Century4 voices
"But thou art he that took me out of the womb." Kindly providence attends with the surgery of tenderness at every human birth; but the Son of Man, who was marvelously begotten of the Holy Ghost, was in an especial manner watched over by the Lord when brought forth by Mary.
"But thou art he that took me out of the womb." Kindly providence attends with the surgery of tenderness at every human birth; but the Son of Man, who was marvelously begotten of the Holy Ghost, was in an especial manner watched over by the Lord when brought forth by Mary. The destitute state of Joseph and Mary, far away from friends and home, led them to see the cherishing hand of God in the safe delivery of the mother, and the happy birth of the child; that Child now fighting the great battle of his life, uses the mercy of his nativity as an argument with God. Faith finds weapons everywhere. He who wills to believe shall never lack reasons for believing. "Thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother's breasts." Was our Lord so early a believer? Was he one of those babes and sucklings out of whose mouths strength is ordained? So it would seem; and if so, what a plea for help! Early piety gives peculiar comfort in our after trials, for surely he who loved us when we were children is too faithful to cast us off in our riper years. Some give the text the sense of "gave me cause to trust, by keeping me safely, " and assuredly there was a special providence which preserved our Lord's infant days from the fury of Herod, the dangers of travelling, and the ills of poverty.
But thou art he that took me out of the womb - Thou hast made me; and hast guided and defended me from my earliest infancy.
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
proposed
But thou art he that took me out of the womb - I owe my life to thee. This is urged by the sufferer as a reason why God should now interpose and protect him. God had brought him into the world, guarding him in the perils of the earliest moments of his being, and he now pleads that in the day of trouble God will interpose and save him. There is nothing improper in applying this to the Messiah. He was a man, with all the innocent propensities and feelings of a man; and no one can say but that when on the cross - and perhaps with special fitness we may say when he saw his mother standing near him Joh 19:25 - these thoughts may have passed through his mind. In the remembrance of the care bestowed on his early years, he may now have looked with an eye of earnest pleading to God, that, if it were possible, he might deliver him. Thou didst make me hope - Margin, “Keptest me in safety.” The phrase in the Hebrew means, Thou didst cause me to trust or to hope. It may mean here either that he was made to cherish a hope of the divine favor “in very early life,” as it were when an infant at the breast; or it may mean that he had cause then to hope, or to trust in God. The former, it seems to me, is probably the meaning; and the idea is, that frown his earliest years he had been lea to trust in God; and he now pleads this fact as a reason why he should interpose to save him. Applied to the Redeemer as a man, it means that in his earliest childhood he had trusted in God. His first breathings were those of piety. His first aspirations were for the divine favor. His first love was the love of God. This he now calls to remembrance; this he now urges as a reason why God should not with. draw the light of his countenance, and leave him to suffer alone. […]
The words behind it
8 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| כִּֽי־ | ki- | for | H3588 → | 4482 times |
| אַתָּ֣ה | ʾatah | you | H859 → | 1094 times |
| גֹחִ֣י | gochi | [were] drawing forth me | H1518 → | |
| מִבָּ֑טֶן | mibaten | from [the] belly | H990 → | 72 times |
| מַ֝בְטִיחִ֗י | mavtichi | [were] making trust me | H982 → | 120 times |
| עַל־ | ʾal- | on | H5921 → | 5755 times |
| שְׁדֵ֥י | shedei | [the] breasts of | H7699 → | |
| אִמִּֽי׃ | ʾimi | mother my | H517 → | 220 times |
כִּֽי־for
ki-H3588 →4482 times
אַתָּ֣הyou
ʾatahH859 →1094 times
גֹחִ֣י[were] drawing forth me
gochiH1518 →
מִבָּ֑טֶןfrom [the] belly
mibatenH990 →72 times
מַ֝בְטִיחִ֗י[were] making trust me
mavtichiH982 →120 times
עַל־on
ʾal-H5921 →5755 times
שְׁדֵ֥י[the] breasts of
shedeiH7699 →
אִמִּֽי׃mother my
ʾimiH517 →220 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Psalms 71:6I have leaned on You since birth; You pulled me from my mother’s womb. My praise is always for You.
it leads to
- Jeremiah 1:5
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I set you apart and appointed you as a prophet to the nations.”
- Psalms 22:9–10
Yet You brought me forth from the womb; You made me secure at my mother’s breast.
- Psalms 139:15–16
My frame was not hidden from You when I was made in secret, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.
- Galatians 1:15
But when God, who set me apart from my mother’s womb and called me by His grace, was pleased
- Isaiah 49:1
Listen to Me, O islands; pay attention, O distant peoples: The LORD called Me from the womb; from the body of My mother He named Me.
- Jeremiah 1:5
Through
Psalms 71:17O God, You have taught me from my youth, and to this day I proclaim Your marvelous deeds.
it leads to
- Psalms 119:9
How can a young man keep his way pure? By guarding it according to Your word.
- Psalms 71:5
For You are my hope, O Lord GOD, my confidence from my youth.
- Psalms 119:102
I have not departed from Your ordinances, for You Yourself have taught me.
- Psalms 119:9
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Augustine of Hippo, Exposition on Psalm 22; Charles Spurgeon, The Treasury of David; Charles Spurgeon, The Treasury of David, Vol. 1; Chuck Missler, How Can We Be Sure? (article); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and Thomas Aquinas, Exposition on the Psalms of David.