UBF Daily Bread

DO NOT BE FAR FROM ME

Passage: Psalm 22:1~31

Key verse: 19

Psalm 22^[a]

For the director of music. To the tune of “The Doe of the Morning.” A psalm of David.

¹My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?^(A)
    Why are you so far^(B) from saving me,
    so far from my cries of anguish?^(C)
²My God, I cry out by day, but you do not answer,^(D)
    by night,^(E) but I find no rest.^[b]

³Yet you are enthroned as the Holy One;^(F)
    you are the one Israel praises.^[c]^(G)
⁴In you our ancestors put their trust;
    they trusted and you delivered them.^(H)
⁵To you they cried out^(I) and were saved;
    in you they trusted^(J) and were not put to shame.^(K)

⁶But I am a worm^(L) and not a man,
    scorned by everyone,^(M) despised^(N) by the people.
⁷All who see me mock me;^(O)
    they hurl insults,^(P) shaking their heads.^(Q)
⁸“He trusts in the Lord,” they say,
    “let the Lord rescue him.^(R)
Let him deliver him,^(S)
    since he delights^(T) in him.”

⁹Yet you brought me out of the womb;^(U)
you made me trust^(V) in you, even at my mother’s breast.
¹⁰From birth^(W) I was cast on you;
from my mother’s womb you have been my God.

¹¹Do not be far from me,^(X)
for trouble is near^(Y)
and there is no one to help.^(Z)

¹²Many bulls^(AA) surround me;^(AB)
    strong bulls of Bashan^(AC) encircle me.
¹³Roaring lions^(AD) that tear their prey^(AE)
    open their mouths wide^(AF) against me.
¹⁴I am poured out like water,
    and all my bones are out of joint.^(AG)
My heart has turned to wax;^(AH)
    it has melted^(AI) within me.
¹⁵My mouth^[d] is dried up like a potsherd,^(AJ)
    and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth;^(AK)
    you lay me in the dust^(AL) of death.

¹⁶Dogs^(AM) surround me,
    a pack of villains encircles me;
    they pierce^[e]^(AN) my hands and my feet.
¹⁷All my bones are on display;
    people stare^(AO) and gloat over me.^(AP)
¹⁸They divide my clothes among them
    and cast lots^(AQ) for my garment.^(AR)

¹⁹But you, Lord, do not be far from me.^(AS)
    You are my strength;^(AT) come quickly^(AU) to help me.^(AV)
²⁰Deliver me from the sword,^(AW)
    my precious life^(AX) from the power of the dogs.^(AY)
²¹Rescue me from the mouth of the lions;^(AZ)
    save me from the horns of the wild oxen.^(BA)

²²I will declare your name to my people;
    in the assembly^(BB) I will praise you.^(BC)
²³You who fear the Lord, praise him!^(BD)
    All you descendants of Jacob, honor him!^(BE)
    Revere him,^(BF) all you descendants of Israel!
²⁴For he has not despised^(BG) or scorned
    the suffering of the afflicted one;^(BH)
he has not hidden his face^(BI) from him
    but has listened to his cry for help.^(BJ)

²⁵From you comes the theme of my praise in the great assembly;^(BK)
    before those who fear you^[f] I will fulfill my vows.^(BL)
²⁶The poor will eat^(BM) and be satisfied;
    those who seek the Lord will praise him—^(BN)
    may your hearts live forever!

²⁷All the ends of the earth^(BO)
    will remember and turn to the Lord,
and all the families of the nations
    will bow down before him,^(BP)
²⁸for dominion belongs to the Lord^(BQ)
    and he rules over the nations.

²⁹All the rich^(BR) of the earth will feast and worship;^(BS)
    all who go down to the dust^(BT) will kneel before him—
    those who cannot keep themselves alive.^(BU)
³⁰Posterity^(BV) will serve him;
    future generations^(BW) will be told about the Lord.
³¹They will proclaim his righteousness,^(BX)
    declaring to a people yet unborn:^(BY)
    He has done it!^(BZ)

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Footnotes

Psalm 22:1 In Hebrew texts 22:1-31 is numbered 22:2-32.
Psalm 22:2 Or night, and am not silent
Psalm 22:3 Or Yet you are holy, / enthroned on the praises of Israel
Psalm 22:15 Probable reading of the original Hebrew text; Masoretic Text strength
Psalm 22:16 Dead Sea Scrolls and some manuscripts of the Masoretic Text, Septuagint and Syriac; most manuscripts of the Masoretic Text me, / like a lion
Psalm 22:25 Hebrew him

Cross references

Psalm 22:1 : S Job 6:15; S Ps 9:10; Mt 27:46*; Mk 15:34*
Psalm 22:1 : Ps 10:1
Psalm 22:1 : S Job 3:24
Psalm 22:2 : S Job 19:7
Psalm 22:2 : Ps 42:3; 88:1
Psalm 22:3 : S 2Ki 19:22; Ps 71:22; S Mk 1:24
Psalm 22:3 : S Ex 15:2; Ps 148:14
Psalm 22:4 : Ps 78:53; 107:6
Psalm 22:5 : S 1Ch 5:20
Psalm 22:5 : Isa 8:17; 25:9; 26:3; 30:18
Psalm 22:5 : S 2Ch 13:18; Ps 25:3; 31:17; 71:1; Isa 49:23; Ro 9:33
Psalm 22:6 : S Job 4:19
Psalm 22:6 : S 2Sa 12:14; Ps 31:11; 64:8; 69:19; 109:25
Psalm 22:6 : Ps 119:141; Isa 49:7; 53:3; 60:14; Mal 2:9; Mt 16:21
Psalm 22:7 : S Job 17:2; Ps 35:16; 69:12; 74:18; Mt 27:41; Mk 15:31; Lk 23:36
Psalm 22:7 : Mt 27:39, 44; Mk 15:32; Lk 23:39
Psalm 22:7 : Mk 15:29
Psalm 22:8 : Ps 91:14
Psalm 22:8 : S Ps 3:2
Psalm 22:8 : S 2Sa 22:20; S Mt 3:17; 27:43
Psalm 22:9 : Job 10:18; Ps 71:6
Psalm 22:9 : Ps 78:7; Na 1:7
Psalm 22:10 : Ps 71:6; Isa 46:3; 49:1
Psalm 22:11 : ver 19; S Ps 10:1
Psalm 22:11 : S Ps 10:14
Psalm 22:11 : S 2Ki 14:26; S Isa 41:28
Psalm 22:12 : Ps 68:30
Psalm 22:12 : Ps 17:9; 27:6; 49:5; 109:3; 140:9
Psalm 22:12 : Dt 32:14; Isa 2:13; Eze 27:6; 39:18; Am 4:1
Psalm 22:13 : ver 21; Eze 22:25; Zep 3:3
Psalm 22:13 : S Ge 49:9
Psalm 22:13 : La 3:46
Psalm 22:14 : S Ps 6:2
Psalm 22:14 : Job 23:16; Ps 68:2; 97:5; Mic 1:4
Psalm 22:14 : Jos 7:5; Ps 107:26; Da 5:6
Psalm 22:15 : Isa 45:9
Psalm 22:15 : Ps 137:6; La 4:4; Eze 3:26; Jn 19:28
Psalm 22:15 : S Job 7:21; Ps 104:29
Psalm 22:16 : Php 3:2
Psalm 22:16 : Isa 51:9; 53:5; Zec 12:10; Jn 20:25
Psalm 22:17 : Lk 23:35
Psalm 22:17 : Ps 25:2; 30:1; 35:19; 38:16; La 2:17; Mic 7:8
Psalm 22:18 : S Lev 16:8; Mt 27:35*; Mk 15:24; Lk 23:34; Jn 19:24*
Psalm 22:18 : Mk 9:12
Psalm 22:19 : S ver 11
Psalm 22:19 : S Ps 18:1
Psalm 22:19 : Ps 38:22; 70:5; 141:1
Psalm 22:19 : Ps 40:13
Psalm 22:20 : S Job 5:20; Ps 37:14
Psalm 22:20 : Ps 35:17
Psalm 22:20 : Php 3:2
Psalm 22:21 : S ver 13; S Job 4:10
Psalm 22:21 : ver 12; S Nu 23:22
Psalm 22:22 : Ps 26:12; 40:9, 10; 68:26
Psalm 22:22 : Ps 35:18; Heb 2:12*
Psalm 22:23 : Ps 33:2; 66:8; 86:12; 103:1; 106:1; 113:1; 117:1; 135:19
Psalm 22:23 : Ps 50:15; Isa 24:15; 25:3; 49:23; 60:9; Jer 3:17
Psalm 22:23 : S Dt 14:23; Ps 33:8
Psalm 22:24 : Ps 102:17
Psalm 22:24 : S Ps 9:12
Psalm 22:24 : Ps 13:1; 27:9; 69:17; 102:2; 143:7
Psalm 22:24 : S Job 24:12; S 36:5; Heb 5:7
Psalm 22:25 : Ps 26:12; 35:18; 40:9; 82:1
Psalm 22:25 : S Nu 30:2
Psalm 22:26 : Ps 107:9
Psalm 22:26 : Ps 40:16
Psalm 22:27 : S Ps 2:8
Psalm 22:27 : Ps 86:9; 102:22; Da 7:27; Mic 4:1
Psalm 22:28 : Ps 47:7-8; Zec 14:9
Psalm 22:29 : Ps 45:12
Psalm 22:29 : Ps 95:6; 96:9; 99:5; Isa 27:13; 49:7; 66:23; Zec 14:16
Psalm 22:29 : Isa 26:19
Psalm 22:29 : Ps 89:48
Psalm 22:30 : Isa 53:10; 54:3; 61:9; 66:22
Psalm 22:30 : Ps 102:18
Psalm 22:31 : S Ps 5:8; 40:9
Psalm 22:31 : Ps 71:18; 78:6; 102:18
Psalm 22:31 : Lk 18:31; 24:44

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1. My God, why have you forsaken me? (1-18)

This cry was on the lips of Jesus on the cross. When David wrote this psalm, he was in deep anguish and distress--perhaps during the time he was fleeing from Saul. He was being hunted down like an animal. He cried to God day and night, and it seemed that God did not answer him. But he did not become bitter or turn from God. He praised the God of Israel who had heard and answered the cries of his people who put their trust in him. He trusted God anyway.

2. All the ends of the earth will remember (19-31)

David was sure that God would answer. He would honor God before all the people. He would call on everyone to praise God who hears the cries of the suffering, who satisfies the poor and blesses those who fear him. Someday, all the families of nations will bow down before God. People yet unborn will hear of his righteousness.

Prayer: Lord, thank you for raising Jesus from death to give victory to your people and hope to all the people of all times.

One Word: Jesus is God with us