Psalms 22:1

King James Version 1611 (Original)

My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

לַ֭מְנַצֵּחַ עַל־אַיֶּ֥לֶת הַשַּׁ֗חַר מִזְמ֥וֹר לְדָוִֽד׃

Transliteration

To-the-mənaṣṣēaḥ upon-ʾayyelet haššaḥar mizmōr belonging-to-dāwid

Grammar Details

• *mənaṣṣēaḥ*: noun, masculine, singular with prefixed preposition lamed - 'to/for the director/choirmaster'
• *ʾayyelet haššaḥar*: construct phrase, 'doe/hind of the dawn/morning'
• *mizmōr*: noun, masculine, singular - 'psalm/song'
• *dāwid*: proper name with prefixed preposition lamed - 'belonging to/of David'

Word Meanings

• *mənaṣṣēaḥ*: director/choirmaster/chief musician/conductor
• *ʾayyelet haššaḥar*: doe of the dawn/hind of the morning (possibly a musical tune name or instrument)

Referenced Verses

• Mark 15:34 : 34 And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? which is, being interpreted, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
• Matt 27:46 : 46 And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
• Heb 5:7 : 7 Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;
• Ps 38:8 : 8 I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.
• Job 3:24 : 24 For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.
• Ps 22:16 : 16 For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.
• Ps 26:9 : 9 Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloody men:
• Ps 22:11 : 11 Be not far from me; for trouble is near; for there is none to help.
• Ps 42:1-2 : 1 As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. 2 My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?
• Isa 59:11 : 11 We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.
• Heb 13:5 : 5 Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
• Luke 22:44 : 44 And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.
• Luke 24:44 : 44 And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me.
• Ps 43:1-5 : 1 Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man. 2 For thou art the God of my strength: why dost thou cast me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy? 3 O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles. 4 Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto God my exceeding joy: yea, upon the harp will I praise thee, O God my God. 5 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.
• Ps 71:11 : 11 Saying, God hath forsaken him: persecute and take him; for there is none to deliver him.
• Isa 46:13 : 13 I bring near my righteousness; it shall not be far off, and my salvation shall not tarry: and I will place salvation in Zion for Israel my glory.
• 1 Sam 12:22 : 22 For the LORD will not forsake his people for his great name's sake: because it hath pleased the LORD to make you his people.
• Ps 10:1 : 1 Why standest thou afar off, O LORD? why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble?
• Ps 16:1 : 1 Preserve me, O God: for in thee do I put my trust.
• Ps 31:14-16 : 14 But I trusted in thee, O LORD: I said, Thou art my God. 15 My times are in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me. 16 Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: save me for thy mercies' sake.
• Ps 32:3-4 : 3 When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long. 4 For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.
• Ps 37:28 : 28 For the LORD loveth judgment, and forsaketh not his saints; they are preserved for ever: but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off.