1 My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
Why are you so far from saving me,
so far from the words of my groaning?
2 O my God, I cry out by day, but you do not answer,
by night, and am not silent.
3 Yet you are enthroned as the Holy One;
you are the praise of Israel. [a]
4 In you our fathers put their trust;
they trusted and you delivered them.
5 They cried to you and were saved;
in you they trusted and were not disappointed.
6 But I am a worm and not a man,
scorned by men and despised by the people.
7 All who see me mock me;
they hurl insults, shaking their heads:
8 "He trusts in the LORD;
let the LORD rescue him.
Let him deliver him,
since he delights in him."
9 Yet you brought me out of the womb;
you made me trust in you
even at my mother's breast.
10 From birth I was cast upon you;
from my mother's womb you have been my God.
11 Do not be far from me,
for trouble is near
and there is no one to help.
12 Many bulls surround me;
strong bulls of Bashan encircle me.
13 Roaring lions tearing their prey
open their mouths wide against me.
14 I am poured out like water,
and all my bones are out of joint.
My heart has turned to wax;
it has melted away within me.
15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd,
and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth;
you lay me [b] in the dust of death.
16 Dogs have surrounded me;
a band of evil men has encircled me,
they have pierced [c] my hands and my feet.
17 I can count all my bones;
people stare and gloat over me.
18 They divide my garments among them
and cast lots for my clothing.
19 But you, O LORD, be not far off;
O my Strength, come quickly to help me.
20 Deliver my life from the sword,
my precious life from the power of the dogs.
21 Rescue me from the mouth of the lions;
save [d] me from the horns of the wild oxen.
22 I will declare your name to my brothers;
in the congregation I will praise you.
23 You who fear the LORD, praise him!
All you descendants of Jacob, honor him!
Revere him, all you descendants of Israel!
24 For he has not despised or disdained
the suffering of the afflicted one;
he has not hidden his face from him
but has listened to his cry for help.
25 From you comes the theme of my praise in the great assembly;
before those who fear you [e] will I fulfill my vows.
26 The poor will eat and be satisfied;
they who seek the LORD will praise him—
may your hearts live forever!
27 All the ends of the earth
will remember and turn to the LORD,
and all the families of the nations
will bow down before him,
28 for dominion belongs to the LORD
and he rules over the nations.
29 All the rich of the earth will feast and worship;
all who go down to the dust will kneel before him—
those who cannot keep themselves alive.
30 Posterity will serve him;
future generations will be told about the Lord.
31 They will proclaim his righteousness
to a people yet unborn—
for he has done it.
Footnotes:
Psalm 22:3 Or Yet you are holy, / enthroned on the praises of Israel
Psalm 22:15 Or / I am laid
Psalm 22:16 Some Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint and Syriac; most Hebrew manuscripts / like the lion,
Psalm 22:21 Or / you have heard
Psalm 22:25 Hebrew him
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3 comments:
I picked this Psalm specifically because it is what Jesus quotes while on the cross in the famous "my god, my god why have you forsaken me?" statement.
I've been studying this utterance of Jesus and have been drawn to this psalm a lot recently.
Who wrote this psalm? I thought the psalms wee written by King David, before Christ was born. I don't know that I ever paid enough attention to this psalm to think that it was written post resurrection.
David did write this Psalm. It was not written post resurrection. It is not a Psalm that quotes Jesus, its the reverse, it is a Psalm that Jesus quotes.
Most of what Jesus says is either a quote of the Old Testament or a clarification of it. Most of his parables relate somehow and most of the stories we are told about him have direct implications to the Old Testament laws.
Much of what Jesus says would have brought other things to the mind of those who heard him say them. The culture was oral, so most Jews memorized all of the Old Testament. The Jews (not the Gentiles though) would have taken many of the things Jesus said and related them directly to what they were about, or where that direct quote came from in the Old Testament and would have inferred all of the surrounding context with it.
One of the easiest ways to see where this is done is to read Luke 4 where Jesus obviously (because even the NT tells us) quotes from Isaiah and figure out what exactly it is that Isaiah is saying in that portion of his writing. It says a lot about the claim Jesus is making.
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