But thou art he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother's breasts.
Thou art he that took me. Here he asserts what he had before implied-namely, that God has had the same care for Him from his earliest being, and is as truly His God as He was the God of the fathers who trusted in Him (Psalms 22:4); and this is the ground of the prayer in Psalms 22:11, "Be not far from me." His mockers had taunted Him, as if His present misery showed the emptiness of the saying that God "delighted in Him" (Psalms 22:8). He takes as a blessed truth what they had spoken as an ironical sneer. Thou hast delighted in me, for thou art He that took me out of the wombs-literally, 'Thou (art) my breaking forth from ( gochiy (H1518)) the womb:' the effect being put for the author of it: thou are the author of my going forth from the womb.
Make me hope The same Hebrew verb ( mabTiychiy (H982)) as is translated "trusted" in Psalms 22:4-5; to this Make me hope. The same Hebrew verb ( mabTiychiy (H982)) as is translated "trusted" in Psalms 22:4-5; to this He refers back: translate, 'Thou didst make me (or give me cause) to trust (even as "our fathers trusted in thee" of old) when I was upon my mother's breasts.' An infant cannot consciously trust in God. What the sufferer pleads is, the abundant cause for trust which God gave Him by loving care from earliest infancy. Thus, Messiah identifies Himself with Israel, whose ideal representative He was. Compare Isaiah 49:1-3. God took the nation up from its political infancy (Ezekiel 16:1-63; Hosea 11:1); and delivered it out of Egypt, even as He delivered the Antitype, Messiah out of the same land (Matthew 2:13-15). The 'trust' on Messiah's part, as also on the part of all His people, is a sure pledge of deliverance in the sorest troubles.