“ But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people. ”
But I am a worm, and no man - In contrast with the fathers who trusted in thee. They prayed, and were heard; they confided in God, and were treated as men. I am left and forsaken, as if I were no...
But I [am] a (d) worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people. (d) And seeming most miserable of all creatures, which referred to Christ, and in this appears the unspeakable love...
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,...
worm. Hebrew. tola', not the ordinary word for "worm", but the crimson coccus from which the scarlet dye was obtained. Hence rendered "scarlet" in Exodus 25:4 ; Exodus 26:1 , &c. See note...
6. But I am a worm, and not a man. David does not murmur against God as if God had dealt hardly with him; but in bewailing his condition, he says, in order the more effectually to induce God...
But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people. But I am a worm, and no man - I can see no sense in which our Lord could use these terms. David might well use them to ex...
But I am a worm, &c.— As if he had said, "Thou hearest others; but, as for me, thou sufferest me to pray, to groan, and to weep, but thou wilt not seem to hear me." Christ may be said to have b...
But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people. But I am a worm, and no man - (note Isaiah 52:14 ). "But I," in emphatic contrast to all the former servants of Go...
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...
Worm. — An indication of extreme degradation and helplessness. (Comp. Isaiah 41:14 .)
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...
Whence, Reader, is it, that while the fathers were made happy, Christ was thus treated, but because he stood in their law place, and endured the very curse which the law denounced against the sinner?...
Psalms 22 Proper Psalm for Good Friday ( Morning ). Psalms 22, 23 = Day 4 ( Evening ).
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 b...
But I [am] a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people. Ver. 6. But I am a worm, and no man ] David, saith a learned man, in the Arabic tongue signifieth a worm; to which he...
But I am a worm, and no man Neglected and despised, as a mean reptile; a reproach of men, and despised of the people Not only of the great men, but also of the common people. This does not so tru...
Sorrowful Complaints. To the chief musician upon Aijeleth Shahar. A psalm of David. 1 My God, my God, why hast thou...
Our fathers were honoured by thee and by others, because of thy appearance for their defence and deliverance; but I am treated like a worm, i.e. neglected and despised, both by thee, who dost not aff...
A Cry Of Despair From The Heart, From One Who Yet Hopes In God ( Psalms 22:1-10 ). Psalms 22:1 ‘My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, and from the words...
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...
Psalms 22:1 . 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 So...
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...
Hebrews 13:12 ; Isaiah 41:14 ; Isaiah 49:7 ; Isaiah 53:3 ; Job 25:6 ; John 7:15 ; John 7:20 ; John 7:47-49 ; John 8:48 ; Lamentations 3:30 ; Matthew 11:19 ; Matthew 12:24 ; Matthew 27:20...
A worm — Neglected and despised. People — Not only of the great men, but also of the common people. Which doth not so truly agree to David as to Christ.