Psalms 22:3
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But thou art holy, He would bring no charge against God even though he forsook him.
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Psalms 22:3-6
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel. Our fathers trusted in thee they trusted, and thou didst deliver them. They cried unto thee, and were delivered: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded. But I am a worm, and no man; Think that you hear your Lord saying this, and comparing himself to a little red worm, which when crushed seems to...
Psalms 22:3
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But thou art holy, O thou, that inhabitest the praises of Israel. Follow the example of your Lord, poor troubled soul. Find no fault with thy God, even though he should forsake thee. Call him holy, even though he should leave thee; and when he seems not to hear thy prayers, yet do not thou forget his praises.
Psalms 22:3
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But thou art holy, O thou that inhabit the praises of Israel. He will not bring any charge against God, even though he has left him; and, beloved, in your bitterest griefs; never lay any blame upon your God. Like Job, said, “Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away;...
Psalms 22:3
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel. No hard thoughts of God, even when he was forsaken. A forsaken Christ still clings to the Father, and ascribes perfect holiness to him.
Psalms 22:4
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Our fathers trusted in thee,.... By whom are meant Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, from whom our Lord descended; and the people of Israel when in Egypt, in the times of the judges, and in all ages before the coming of Christ, of whom, as concerning the flesh, or as to his human nature, Christ came, Romans 9:5; these, as they were sojourners, and went...
Psalms 22:4-5
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Our fathers trusted in thee; they trusted, and thou didst deliver them. They cried unto thee, and were delivered: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded. Look back, and see how God helped our ancestors. Recall how, in the past ages, the Lord always was the Deliverer of all those that trusted in him. Was a righteous man ever finally forsaken...
Psalms 22:4-6
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them. They cried unto thee, and were delivered: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded. But I am a worm, and no man; — There is a little red worm, which seems to be nothing but a mass of blood, and the Saviour compares himself in his agony to that tiny creature: “I am a worm,...
Psalms 22:4-6
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them. They cried unto thee, and were delivered: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded. But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people. Think of our Divine Lord thus taking the very lowest place, and becoming, as it were, something less than man, —...
Psalms 22:4-6
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them. They cried unto thee, and were delivered: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded. But I am a worm, and no man;- So low did Christ stoop, for our sake, that he became less than man. There is a little crimson worm, to which this passage alludes, which seems to be made...
Psalms 22:4-6
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them. They cried unto thee, and were delivered: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded. But I am a worm, and no man: The allusion here is to a little red worm which, when it is crushed, seems to be all blood, and nothing else; and the Saviour compares himself to that little...
Psalms 22:4-6
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them. They cried unto thee, and were delivered: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded. But I am a worm, and no man: a reproach of men, and despised of the people. How low did Christ descend for our sakes not only low as man, but lower still! Never was godly man forsaken of...
Psalms 22:5
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
They cried unto thee, and were delivered,.... As the Israelites did in Egyptian bondage, and as they in later times did when in distress; see Exodus 2:23; c. The crying is to be understood of prayer to God, and sometimes designs mental prayer, sighing, and groaning, which cannot be uttered, when no voice is heard, as in Moses, Exodus 14:15 but...
Psalms 22:6
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
But I [am] a worm, and no man,.... Christ calls himself a worm, not because of his original, for he was not of the earth earthy, but was the Lord from heaven; nor because of his human nature, man being a worm, and the Son of Man such, Job 25:6; and because of his meanness and low estate in that nature, in his humiliation; nor to express his...
Psalms 22:6
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people. There is a little red worm which seems to be nothing else but blood when it is crushed, it seems all gone except a blood-stain; and the Saviour, in the deep humiliation of his spirit, compares himself to that little red worm. How true it is that “he made himself of no...
Psalms 22:6-8
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
A reproach of men, and despised of the people. All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying, he trusted on the LORD that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him. What scorn! How it must have entered like vitriol into the veins of Christ, a strong corrosive of dreadful...
Psalms 22:6-8
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
A reproach of men, and despised of the people. All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying, He trusted on the lord that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him. What vinegar and gall that mockery poured into the Saviour’s wounded heart! How these cruel words must have...
Psalms 22:6-8
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
A reproach of men, and despised of the people. All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying, He trusted on the LORD that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him. It is very easy to read these words, or to hear them read, but it is not so easy to realize the sorrow they...
Psalms 22:6
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
A reproach of men, and despised of the people. They would not let him be numbered with them; they accounted him as an offcast and an outcast.
Psalms 22:7
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
All they that see me laugh me to scorn,.... To the afflicted pity should be shown; but instead or pitying him in his distresses they laughed at him; this must be understood of the soldiers when they had him in Pilate's hall, and of the Jews in general when he hung upon the cross; some particular persons must be excepted, as John the beloved...