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Text -- Psalms 22:19 (NET)

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22:19 But you, O Lord, do not remain far away! You are my source of strength! Hurry and help me!
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JFB: Psa 22:19-20 - -- He now turns with unabated desire and trust to God, who, in His strength and faithfulness, is contrasted with the urgent dangers described.

He now turns with unabated desire and trust to God, who, in His strength and faithfulness, is contrasted with the urgent dangers described.

Clarke: Psa 22:19 - -- Be not thou far from me - In the first verse he asks, Why hast thou forsaken me? Or, as if astonished at their wickedness, Into what hands hast thou...

Be not thou far from me - In the first verse he asks, Why hast thou forsaken me? Or, as if astonished at their wickedness, Into what hands hast thou permitted me to fall? Now he prays, Be not far from me. St. Jerome observes here, that it is the humanity of our blessed Lord which speaks to his divinity. Jesus was perfect man; and as man he suffered and died. But this perfect and sinless man could not have sustained those sufferings so as to make them expiatory had he not been supported by the Divine nature. All the expressions in this Psalm that indicate any weakness as far as it relates to Christ, (and indeed it relates principally to him), are to be understood of the human nature; for, that in him God and man were united, but not confounded, the whole New Testament to me bears evidence, the manhood being a perfect man, the Godhead dwelling bodily in that manhood. Jesus, as Mans, was conceived, born, grew up, increased in wisdom, stature, and favor with God and man; hungered, thirsted, suffered, and died. Jesus, as God, knew all things, was from the beginning with God, healed the diseased, cleansed the lepers, and raised the dead; calmed the raging of the sea, and laid the tempest by a word; quickened the human nature, raised it from the dead, took it up into heaven, where as the Lamb newly slain, it ever appears in the presence of God for us. These are all Scripture facts. The man Christ Jesus could not work those miracles; the God in that man could not have suffered those sufferings. Yet one person appears to do and suffer all; here then is God manifested in the Flesh

Clarke: Psa 22:19 - -- O my strength - The divinity being the poxver by which the humanity was sustained in this dreadful conflict.

O my strength - The divinity being the poxver by which the humanity was sustained in this dreadful conflict.

Calvin: Psa 22:19 - -- 19.Be not thou, then, far from me, O Jehovah! We must keep in mind all that David has hitherto related concerning himself. As his miseries had reache...

19.Be not thou, then, far from me, O Jehovah! We must keep in mind all that David has hitherto related concerning himself. As his miseries had reached the utmost height, and as he saw not even a single ray of hope to encourage him to expect deliverance, it is a wonderful instance of the power of faith, that he not only endured his afflictions patiently, but that from the abyss of despair he arose to call upon God. Let us, therefore, particularly mark, that David did not pour out his lamentations thinking them to be in vain, and of no effect, as persons who are in perplexity often pour forth their groanings at random. The prayers which he adds sufficiently show that he hoped for such an issue as he desired. When he calls God his strength, by this epithet he gives a more evident proof of his faith. He does not pray in a doubting manner; but he promises himself the assistance which the eye of sense did not as yet perceive. By the sword, by the hand of the dog, by the mouth of the lion, and by the horns of the unicorns, he intimates that he was presently exposed to the danger of death, and that in many ways. Whence we gather, that although he utterly fainted in himself when thus surrounded by death, he yet continued strong in the Lord, and that the spirit of life had always been vigorous in his heart. Some take the words only soul, or only life, for dear and precious; 517 but this view does not appear to me to be appropriate. He rather means, that, amidst so many deaths he found no help or succor in the whole world; as in Psa 35:17 the words, only soul, 518 are used in the same sense for a person who is alone and destitute of all aid and succor. This will appear more clearly from Psa 25:16, where David, by calling himself poor and alone, doubtless complains that he was completely deprived of friends, and forsaken of the whole world. When it is said in the end of the 21st verse, Answer me, or, Hear me from the horns of the unicorns, this Hebrew manner of speaking may seem strange and obscure to our ears, but the sense is not at all ambiguous. The cause is only put instead of the effect; for our deliverance is the consequence or effect of God’s hearing us. If it is asked how this can be applied to Christ, whom the Father did not deliver from death? I answer, in one word, that he was more mightily delivered than if God had prevented him from falling a victim to death, even as it is a much greater deliverance to rise again from the dead than to be healed of a grievous malady. Death, therefore, did not prevent Christ’s resurrection from at length bearing witness that he had been heard.

TSK: Psa 22:19 - -- But : Psa 22:11, Psa 10:1 O my : Psa 18:1, Psa 21:1, Psa 40:13, Psa 40:17, Psa 69:13-18

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Barnes: Psa 22:19 - -- But be not thou far from me, O Lord - " O Yahweh."Others - all others - have forsaken me, and left me to perish. Now, in the day of my desertion...

But be not thou far from me, O Lord - " O Yahweh."Others - all others - have forsaken me, and left me to perish. Now, in the day of my desertion and my peril, be thou near to me. See Psa 22:11. This is the burden of the prayer in the whole psalm, that God would not leave him, but sustain and deliver him. Compare Psa 22:1.

O my strength - Source of my strength; thou on whom I rely for support and deliverance.

Haste thee to help me - Help me speedily. Come to support me; come to deliver me from these dreadful sorrows. This is not necessarily a prayer to be rescued from death, but it would be applicable to deliverance from those deep mental sorrows that had come upon him - from this abandonment to unutterable woes.

Gill: Psa 22:19 - -- But be not thou far from me, O Lord,.... See Gill on Psa 22:11; O my strength; Christ as God is the mighty God, the Almighty; as Mediator, he is th...

But be not thou far from me, O Lord,.... See Gill on Psa 22:11;

O my strength; Christ as God is the mighty God, the Almighty; as Mediator, he is the strength of his people; but, as man, God is his strength; he is the man of his right hand, whom he has made strong for himself, and whom he has promised his arm shall strengthen, Psa 80:17; and therefore he addresses him in this manner here, saying,

haste thee to help me; his help was alone in God his strength; there were none that could help him but he, and he seemed to stand afar off from helping him, Psa 22:1; and his case being so distressed, as is represented in the preceding verses, it required haste.

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Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Psa 22:19 Heb “hurry to my help.”

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Commentary -- Verse Range Notes

TSK Synopsis: Psa 22:1-31 - --1 David complains in great discouragement.9 He prays in great distress.23 He praises God.

MHCC: Psa 22:11-21 - --In these verses we have Christ suffering, and Christ praying; by which we are directed to look for crosses, and to look up to God under them. The very...

Matthew Henry: Psa 22:11-21 - -- In these verses we have Christ suffering and Christ praying, by which we are directed to look for crosses and to look up to God under them. I. Here ...

Keil-Delitzsch: Psa 22:19-21 - -- (Heb.: 22:20-22) In Psa 22:19 the description of affliction has reached its climax, for the parting of, and casting lots for, the garments assumes ...

Constable: Psa 22:1-31 - --Psalm 22 The mood of this psalm contrasts dramatically with that of Psalm 21. In this one David felt for...

Constable: Psa 22:18-20 - --3. Prayer for freedom from death 22:19-21 The psalmist pleaded with God to rescue his life from ...

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Introduction / Outline

JFB: Psalms (Book Introduction) The Hebrew title of this book is Tehilim ("praises" or "hymns"), for a leading feature in its contents is praise, though the word occurs in the title ...

JFB: Psalms (Outline) ALEPH. (Psa 119:1-8). This celebrated Psalm has several peculiarities. It is divided into twenty-two parts or stanzas, denoted by the twenty-two let...

TSK: Psalms (Book Introduction) The Psalms have been the general song of the universal Church; and in their praise, all the Fathers have been unanimously eloquent. Men of all nation...

TSK: Psalms 22 (Chapter Introduction) Overview Psa 22:1, David complains in great discouragement; Psa 22:9, He prays in great distress; Psa 22:23, He praises God. am 2962, bc 1042. (T...

Poole: Psalms (Book Introduction) OF PSALMS THE ARGUMENT The divine authority of this Book of PSALMS is so certain and evident, that it was never questioned in the church; which b...

Poole: Psalms 22 (Chapter Introduction) THE ARGUMENT That question mentioned Act 8:34 , is very proper here. Of whom speaketh the prophet this (Psalm)? of himself, or of some other man? ...

MHCC: Psalms (Book Introduction) David was the penman of most of the psalms, but some evidently were composed by other writers, and the writers of some are doubtful. But all were writ...

MHCC: Psalms 22 (Chapter Introduction) (Psa 22:1-10) Complaints of discouragement. (Psa 22:11-21) With prayer for deliverance. (Psa 22:22-31) Praises for mercies and redemption.

Matthew Henry: Psalms (Book Introduction) An Exposition, with Practical Observations, of The Book of Psalms We have now before us one of the choicest and most excellent parts of all the Old Te...

Matthew Henry: Psalms 22 (Chapter Introduction) The Spirit of Christ, which was in the prophets, testifies in this psalm, as clearly and fully as any where in all the Old Testament, " the sufferi...

Constable: Psalms (Book Introduction) Introduction Title The title of this book in the Hebrew Bible is Tehillim, which means...

Constable: Psalms (Outline) Outline I. Book 1: chs. 1-41 II. Book 2: chs. 42-72 III. Book 3: chs. 73...

Constable: Psalms Psalms Bibliography Allen, Ronald B. "Evidence from Psalm 89." In A Case for Premillennialism: A New Consensus,...

Haydock: Psalms (Book Introduction) THE BOOK OF PSALMS. INTRODUCTION. The Psalms are called by the Hebrew, Tehillim; that is, hymns of praise. The author, of a great part of ...

Gill: Psalms (Book Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO PSALMS The title of this book may be rendered "the Book of Praises", or "Hymns"; the psalm which our Lord sung at the passover is c...

Gill: Psalms 22 (Chapter Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 22 To the chief Musician upon Aijeleth Shahar, a Psalm of David. The only thing observable in the title of this psalm is the ...

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