Text -- Psalms 22:24 (NET)

22:24 For he did not despise or detest the suffering of the oppressed; he did not ignore him; when he cried out to him, he responded.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Psa 22:24

¹ tn Or “affliction”; or “need.”

² sn In this verse the psalmist refers to himself in the third person and characterizes himself as oppressed.

³ tn Heb “he did not hide his face from him.” For other uses of the idiom “hide the face” meaning “ignore,” see Pss 10:11; 13:1; 51:9. Sometimes the idiom carries the stronger idea of “reject” (see Pss 27:9; 88:14).

⁴ tn Heb “heard.”