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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
INTRODUCTION TO Psalms 22 To the chief Musician upon Aijeleth Shahar, a Psalm of David. The only thing observable in the title of this psalm is the sense of the words "Aijeleth Shahar", left untranslated; which, according to some of the Jewish (g) interpreters, is the name of a musical instrument; to which our version inclines; and a learned Jew...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
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...
Matthew Henry - Complete Commentary - Matthew Henry
The Spirit of Christ, which was in the prophets, testifies in this psalm, as clearly and fully as any where in all the Old Testament, "the sufferings of Christ and the glory that should follow" (1 Pet. i. 11); of him, no doubt, David here speaks, and not of himself, or any other man. Much of it is expressly applied to Christ in the New Testament,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? What a dolorous cry! How terrible it must have been to have heard that cry, but how much more terrible to have uttered it! For the dear Son of God, the Well-beloved, with whom the Father is always pleased, to be forsaken of his God, was indeed grief unfathomable. Psa_22:1. Why art thou so far from helping...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
MY God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? It was not morning with Jesus when he uttered these words; it was midnight, but his midnight is our morning. Psa_22:1. Why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring? The prayer had come to be almost inarticulate, like the dying moan of a wounded beast in the forest.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me! why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring? That was the very climax of our Lord’s grief upon the cross, that it was necessary that the Father himself should forsake him. The penalty of sin is that God must leave the man who has sin upon him even by imputation; and God left this...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Every word is emphatic: “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” “All others may forsake me, and I need not be greatly troubled at their absence; but ‘why hast thou forsaken me?” “Why hast thou forsaken me?’ I understand why thou dost smite me, for I am the Shepherd predestined to be smitten for the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My God, my God! why hast thou forsaken me? Every word here is emphatic. Take the first two words “My God, my God.” These reveal our Saviour’s claim upon God as his God. Why hast thou forsaken me? I can understand that others should leave me, but why hast thou done so?” Then lay the stress upon the last word: “’Why hast thou forsaken me, — thine...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring? O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent. See our Saviour hanging on the cross, hear him utter these sorrowful words, and remember that he had come up from Gethsemane, all crimson with the bloody sweat which had oozed from...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Every word is emphatic; you may put the stress where you please, upon every single word. “My God, my God.” With two hands he takes hold on God, crying, “My God, my God,” “Eloi, Eloi, my Strong One, why hast Thou forsaken me? “Or read it, “Why hast thou forsaken me?” “Why hast thou forsaken me?” “Why hast...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring? O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent. Gethsemane!—there is the key—a prayer unanswered at that time: “If it be possible, let this cup pass from me.” It was not possible. He...
Spurgeon - Treasury of David - Charles H. Spurgeon
Ver. 1. My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? This was the startling cry of Golgotha: Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani. The Jews mocked, but the angels adored when Jesus cried this exceeding bitter cry. Nailed to the tree we behold our great Redeemer in extremities, and what see we? Having ears to hear let us hear, and having eyes to see let us...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
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...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent. If we remember Gethsemane, and think how Jesus prayed there, even to an agony and a bloody sweat, shall we wonder if, sometime, our prayers seem to be put on one side, and we do not immediately receive answers of peace to them? Yet, you see, our Lord...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O my God, This is the third time he has cried out, “My God,” note that. Psa_22:2. I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent. The worst grief of a child of God is not to be heard in prayer. Think, then, what it must have been for the Well-beloved to have to say to his Father, “O my God, I cry in the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent. But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel. Notice that the Lord Jesus, in his greatest agony, does not impugn the justice of his Father’s treatment, in his bitterest sufferings he still adores the holiness of God: “Thou art...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent. Think of what a weight that unanswered prayer was upon the soul of the Well-beloved. Have you ever felt such a burden as that? Then, you are not alone in that experience, for he who is infinitely better than you can ever be had to think over his day...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent. But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel. Jesus will find no fault with God. Even if in his dire extremity God forsakes him, yet he will not utter even a whisper against him: “Thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
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...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel. Settle it in your hearts that, whatever God does, he is holy. Never harbour a thought against his, never imagine that he is hard, or unjust, or unfaithful. That cannot be, so, if the worst comes to the worst, never let your faith have any question upon this point.