Psalms 22:20

Deliver my soul from the sword; my (l) darling from the power of the dog.

(l) My life that is solitary, left alone and forsaken by all, (Psalms 35:17; Psalms 25:16)

Related Commentaries of Psalms 22:20

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Deliver my soul from the sword - The word soul here means life, and denotes a living person. It is equivalent to “deliver me.” “The sword” is use...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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,...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

soul. Hebrew. nephesh. App-13. darling . only one. Hebrew. yahid. See note on Deuteronomy 6:4 . = my one own priceless possession; put by Fi...
Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

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 co...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog. Deliver my soul from the sword - Deliver נפשי naphshi, my life; save me alive,...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Deliver my soul, &c.— Bishop Hare observes, that in these two verses the Psalmist recapitulates the four things that he had before mentioned, a...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog. My soul from the sword; my darling. "The sword" was not literally drawn...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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 s...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

My darling] RM 'my only one,' my precious life. From.. the dog ] cp. John 19:16 .
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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 sorro...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

the Testimony of the Delivered Psalms 22:16-31 In the middle of Psalms 22:21 there is a remarkable change from the plaintive to the triumphan...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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 i...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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 rec...
James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

Psalms 22 Proper Psalm for Good Friday ( Morning ). Psalms 22, 23 = Day 4 ( Evening ).
James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

THE POWER OF THE DOG 1 ‘Deliver … my darling from the power of the dog.’ Psalms 22:20 The word dog in the Scriptures often means a wicked pe...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Deliver my soul from the sword ,.... Wicked men, whose tongues were as a sharp sword, reproaching and blaspheming him, and bearing false witness aga...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog. Ver. 20. Deliver my soul from the sword ] i.e. From desperate and deadly d...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

I may tell all my bones Theodoret observes, that when Christ was extended, and his limbs distorted, on the cross, it might be easy for a spectator...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Sufferings of the Messiah; The Messiah Supported in His Sufferings....
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

From the sword, i.e. from the rage and violence of mine enemies, as the next clause explains it, and as the sword is oft taken in Scripture. See...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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 descript...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘Deliver my soul from the sword, My darling from the power of the dog. Save me from the lion's mouth, yes, from the horns of the wild-oxen You have a...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

INTRODUCTION “The subject of this psalm is the deliverance of a righteous sufferer from his enemies, and the effect of this deliverance on others. I...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

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...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

This Psalm is a sort of window, through which we can look into the heart of our crucified Saviour. We see all the external part of the crucifixion th...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

This Psalm is headed, «To the chief Musician upon Aijeleth Shahar,» or, as the margin renders it, «the hind of the morning,» «A Psalm of David,» It b...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

This Psalm so sweetly and so accurately pictures the inward griefs of our Divine Saviour that it might have been written after the crucifixion rather...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

This marvellous Psalm is a wonderful prophecy, which might seem as if it had been composed after the suffering of our Lord; yet it was written many h...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Stand and look up at Christ upon the cross, and look upon these words, as his. He himself is the best exposition of this wondrous psalm. Psalms 22:...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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....
The Biblical Illustrator

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 d...
The Biblical Illustrator

Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog. The dog Dogs in the East are not much thought of, and never properly trea...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

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 th...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Deliver My soul from the sword, from the murderous weapons, from the instruments of torture; My darling, His precious life, from the power of the...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 17:13 ; Psalms 35:17 ; Psalms 22:16 ; Zechariah 13:7
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Darling — Heb. my only one; his soul, which he so calls, because it was left alone and destitute of friends and helpers.

²⁰ Deliver my soul from the sword; my darlingc from the power of the dog.

Related Commentaries of Psalms 22:20

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Psalms 22:20