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Psalms 22

1 David complained because he was brought into such extremities, that he was past all hope, but after he had rehearsed the sorrows and griefs, wherewith he was vexed, 10 He recovereth him self from the bottomless pit of tentations and groweth in hope. And here under his own person he setteth forth the figure of Christ, whom he did foresee by the Spirit of prophecie, that he should marvelously, and strangely be dejected, and abased, before his Father should raise and exalt him again.
1.My aGod, my God, why hast thou forsaken me, and art so far from mine health, and from the words of my broaring?
2.O my God, I cry by day, but thou hearest not, and by night, but ^have no audience.
3.But thou art holie, and doest inhabit the cpraises of Israél.
4.Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didest deliver them.
5.They called upon thee, and were delivered: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded.
6.But I am a dworm, and not a man: a shame of men, and the contempt of the people.
7.All they that see me, have me in derision: they make a mowe and nod the head, saying,
8.^*He trusted in the Lord, let him deliver him: let him save him, seeing he loveth him.
9.But thou didest draw me out of the ewomb: thou gavest me hope, even at my mother's breasts.
10.I was cast upon thee: even from fthe womb: thou art my God from my mother's belly.
11.Be not far from me, because trouble is near: for there is none to help me.
12.Many young bulls have compassed me: mighty gbulls of Bashán have closed me about.
13.They gap upon me with their mouths, as a ramping and roaring lion.
14.I am like hwater poured out, and all my bones are out of joint: mine heart is like wax: it is molten in the middes of my bowels.
15.My strength is dryed up like a potsherd, & my tongue cleaveth to my jaws, and thou ihast brought me into the dust of death.
16.For dogs have compassed me, and the assembly of the wicked have enclosed me: they kpierced mine hands & my feet.
17.I may tel all my bones: yet they behold, and look upon me.
18.They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.
19.But be not thou far off, ô Lord, my strength: hasten to help me.
20.Deliver my soul from the sword: my ldesolate soul from the power of the dog.
21.mSave me from the lion's mouth, and answer me in saving me from the horns of the unicorns.
22.*I wil declare thy Name unto my brethren: in the middes of the Congregation wil I praise thee, saying,
23.nPraise the Lord, ye that fear him: magnify ye him, all the seed of Jaakób, and fear ye him, all the seed of Israél.
24.For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the opoor: neither hath he hid his face from him, but when he called unto him, he heard.
25.My praise shalbe of thee in the great Congregation: my pvows wil I perform before them that fear him.
26.qThe poor shal eat and be satisfied: they that seek after the Lord, shal praise him: your heart shal live for ever.
27.All the ends of the world shal remember them selves, and turn to the Lord: and all the kindreds of the nations shal worship before thee.
28.For the kingdom is the Lord's, & he ruleth among the nations.
29.All they that be fat rin the earth, shal eat and worship: all they that go down into the dust, shal bow before him, seven he that can not quicken his own soul.
30.tTheir seed shal serve him: it shalbe counted unto the Lord for a generation.
31.They shal come, and shal declare his righteousness unto a people that shal be born, because he hath udone it.

Notes

1-a.
Here appears that horrible conflict, which he sustained between faith and desperation.
1-b.
Being tormented with extreme anguish.
2-^.
Or, I cease not.
3-c.
He means the place of praising, even the Tabernacle: or else it is so called, because he gave the people continually occasion to praise him
6-d.
And seeming most miserable of all creatures, which was meant of Christ. And herein appears the unspeakable love of God toward man, that he would thus abase his Son for our sakes.
8-*.
Mat. 27.43.
8-^.
Ebr., relied upon God.
9-e.
Even from my birth you have given me occasion to trust you.
10-f.
For except God's providence preserve the infants, they should perish a thousand times in the mother's womb.
12-g.
He means, that his enemies were so fat, proud and cruel, that they were rather beasts then men.
14-h.
Before, he spoke of the cruelty of his enemies, and now he declares the inward griefs of the mind, so that Christ was tormented, both in soul and body.
15-i.
You have suffered me to be without all hope of life.
16-k.
Thus David complains as though he were nailed by his enemies both hands and feet: but this was accomplished in Christ.
20-l.
My life that is solitary, left alone & forsaken of all, Ps. 35.17, & 25.16.
21-m.
Christ is delivered with a more mighty deliverance by over coming death, then if he had not tasted death at all.
22-*.
Ebr. 2.12.
23-n.
He promises to exhort the Church that they by his example might praise the Lord.
24-o.
The poor afflicted are comforted by this example of David, or Christ.
25-p.
Which were sacrifices of thanksgiving, which they offered by God's commandment when they were delivered out of any great danger.
26-q.
He does allude still to the sacrifice.
29-r.
Though the poor be first named, as verse 26, yet the wealthy are not separated from the grace of Christ's kingdom.
29-s.
In whom there is no hope that he shall recover life: so neither poor nor rich, quick not dead shall be rejected from his kingdom.
30-t.
Meaning the posterity, which the Lord keeps as a seed to the Church to continue his praise among men.
31-u.
That is, God has fulfilled his promise.