“ They gapedb upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion. ”
They gaped upon me with their mouths - Margin, as in Hebrew, “opened their mouths against me.” That is, they opened their mouths wide as if they would devour me, as a lion does when he seizes upo...
XXII. This Ps. (p. 372) consists of two parts. In Psalms 22:1-21 a godly man in deep and manifold distress complains that the God of his fathers, the God who has been with him from the beginning,...
DISCOURSE: 527 THE SUFFERINGS OF CHRIST Psalms 22:11-21 . Be not far from me, for trouble is near; for there is none to help. Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me r...
They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion. They gaped upon me - They were fiercely and madly beat on my destruction.
They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion. A ravening ... lion - i:e., a tearing lion: one tearing his victim in pieces, and "roaring" (note, Psalms 22:1 ) in ex...
The Ps. has two sections, in the first of which ( Psalms 22:1-21 ) the writer earnestly seeks God's help in a time of extreme trouble, while in the second ( Psalms 22:22-31 ) he breaks into a song of...
Ravening. — Literally, tearing in pieces. (Comp. Lamentations 2:15-16 ; Lamentations 3:10 .) Roaring. — Comp. Amos 3:4 .
Psalms 22:1-31 WHO is the sufferer whose wail is the very voice of desolation and despair, and who yet dares to believe that the tale of his sorrow will be a gospel for the world? The usual answer...
the Cry of the Forsaken Psalms 22:1-15 The Hebrew inscription of this exquisite ode is, “The hind of the morning.” The hind is the emblem of loveliness; see Song of Solomon 2:7 ; Song of Solo...
Whatever may have been the local conditions creating this psalm, it has become so perfectly and properly associated with the one Son of God that it is almost impossible to read it in any other way. T...
It would be a loss of time to continually remark, how impossible it is to preserve any kind of consistency in those scriptures, by keeping up the recollection of David, King of Israel, as being at al...
Psalms 22 Proper Psalm for Good Friday ( Morning ). Psalms 22, 23 = Day 4 ( Evening ).
They gaped upon me [with] their mouths ,.... Either by way of derision and contempt, Job 16:10 ; or belching out blasphemy against him, or rather, with the greatest vehemency, crying out "Crucify h...
They gaped upon me [with] their mouths, [as] a ravening and a roaring lion. Ver. 13. They gaped upon me with their mouths ] As if they would have swallowed me up at a bit, like so many lycanthrop...
Be not far from me As to affection and succour; for trouble is near At hand, and ready to swallow me up; for there is none to help Thy help therefore will be the more seasonable, because it is...
The Sufferings of the Messiah; The Messiah Supported in His Sufferings. 11 Be not far from me; for trouble is near...
Partly to affright me, and principally to tear and devour me, as the following metaphor explains it. Otherwise it might be understood of their crying out with loud and earnest voices, that he might b...
The Sufferer's Prayer For Deliverance And Provides A Description of His Predicament ( Psalms 22:11-21 ). That we are to see some of these descriptions as figurative comes out in Psalms 22:21 whe...
INTRODUCTION “The subject of this psalm is the deliverance of a righteous sufferer from his enemies, and the effect of this deliverance on others. It is so framed as to be applied without violence t...
You will not need any comment on this Psalm if, while we read it, you see Christ on the cross, and you think that you hear him uttering these sacred words. This Psalm is dedicated» to the Chief Music...
Psalms 22:1 . My God, my God. The LXX, Ο Θεος ο Θεος μου. The Chaldaic is like the English. The Hebrew forms the superlative degree by repetition. Example: “The heaven, and the heaven of heavens c...
My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me? The prophetic image of the Prince of sufferers Who is the sufferer whose wail is the very voice of desolation and despair, and who yet dares to believ...
EXPOSITION THERE is no psalm which has raised so much controversy as this. Admitted to be Messianic by the early Hebrew commentators, it is by some understood wholly of David; by others, appli...
The Messiah in His Great Passion. A Prophecy of the Messiah's Suffering. To the chief musician upon Aijeleth Shahar, that is, "Of the hind of the dawn," a psalm of David. The words "Of the hind...
1 Peter 5:8 ; Ezekiel 22:27 ; Ezekiel 22:28 ; Job 16:10 ; Lamentations 2:16 ; Lamentations 3:46 ; Matthew 26:3 ; Matthew 26:4 ; Matthew 26:59-65 ; Psalms 17:12 ; Psalms 22:21 ; Psalms 22:...