Psalms:22

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* «To the chief Musician upon Aijeleth Shahar , A Psalm of David .» My (note :)Here appears that horrible conflict , which he sustained between faith and desperation .(:note ) God , my God , why hast thou forsaken me ? [why art thou so ] far from helping me , [and from ] the words of my Being tormented with extreme anguish . roaring ? * O my God , I crie by day , but thou hearest not , and by night , but haue no audience . * But thou [art ] holy , [O thou ] that inhabitest the (note :)He means the place of praising , even the tabernacle or else it is so called , because he gave the people continuous opportunity to praise him .(:note ) praises of Israel . * Our fathers trusted in thee : they trusted , and thou didest deliuer them . * They called vpon thee , and were deliuered : they trusted in thee , and were not confounded . * But I [am ] a (note :)And seeming most miserable of all creatures , which referred to Christ , and in this appears the unspeakable love of God for man , that he would thus abase his son for our sakes .(:note ) worm , and no man ; a reproach of men , and despised of the people . * All they that see me , haue me in derision : they make a mowe and nod the head , saying , * He trusted in the Lorde , let him deliuer him : let him saue him , seeing he loueth him . * But thou [art ] he that took me out of the (note :)Even from my birth you have given me opportunity to trust in you .(:note ) womb : thou didst make me hope [when I was ] upon my mother 's breasts . * I was cast upon thee from the womb : thou [art ] my God from my mother 's (note :)For unless God 's providence preserves the infants , they would perish a thousand times in the mother 's womb .(:note ) belly . * Be not farre from me , because trouble is neere : for there is none to helpe me . * Many bulls have compassed me : strong (note :)He means that his enemies were so fat , proud and cruel that they were more like beasts than men .(:note ) [bulls ] of Bashan have beset me round . * They gape vpon me with their mouthes , as a ramping and roaring lyon . * I am poured out like (note :)Before he spoke of the cruelty of his enemies , and now he declares the inward grief of the mind , so that Christ was tormented both in soul and body .(:note ) water , and all my bones are out of joint : my heart is like wax ; it is melted in the midst of my bowels . * My strength is dried up like a potsherd ; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws ; and thou (note :)You permitted me to be without all hope of life .(:note ) hast brought me into the dust of death . * For dogs have compassed me : the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me : they (note :)Thus David complained as though he were nailed by his enemies in both hands and feet , but this was accomplished in Christ .(:note ) pierced my hands and my feet . * I may tell all my bones : yet they beholde , and looke vpon me . * They part my garments among them , and cast lottes vpon my vesture . * But be thou not farre off , O Lorde , my strength : hasten to helpe me . * Deliver my soul from the sword ; my (note :)My life that is solitary , left alone and forsaken by all , ( Psa_35:17 , Psa_25:16 )(:note ) darling from the power of the dog . * * I wil declare thy Name vnto my brethren : in the middes of the Congregation will I praise thee , saying , * Ye that fear the LORD , (note :)He promises to exhort the Church that they by his example might praise the Lord .(:note ) praise him ; all ye the seed of Jacob , glorify him ; and fear him , all ye the seed of Israel . * For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the (note :)The poor afflicted are comforted by this example of David , or Christ .(:note ) afflicted ; neither hath he hid his face from him ; but when he cried unto him , he heard . * My praise [shall be ] of thee in the great congregation : I will pay my (note :)Which were sacrifices of thanksgiving which they offered by God 's commandment , when they were delivered out of any great danger .(:note ) vows before them that fear him . * * All the endes of the worlde shall remember themselues , and turne to the Lord : and all the kinreds of the nations shall worship before thee . * For the kingdome is the Lords , and he ruleth among the nations . * All [they that be ] fat (note :)Though the poor are first named as in ( Psa_22:26 ) yet the wealthy are not separated from the grace of Christ 's kingdom .(:note ) upon earth shall eat and worship : all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him : In whom there is no hope that he will recover life : so neither poor nor rich , quick nor dead will be rejected from his kingdom . and none can keep alive his own soul . * * They shall come , and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born , that he hath (note :)That is , God has fulfilled his promise .(:note ) done [this ].

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