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Psalm 22:1

Gerard van Honthorst, King David Playing the Harp, 1622 · Centraal Museum, Utrecht · Public domainGerard van Honthorst, King David Playing the Harp, 1622, Centraal Museum, Utrecht

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Psalm 22:1 (WEB)

My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning?

Fathers and councils · 24

Eusebius of Caesarea

  • “…let every one of those who have been summoned sing with loud voice and say, ‘I was glad when they said unto me, we shall go unto the house of the Lord,’ and ‘Lord, I have loved the beauty of thy house and the place where thy glory dwelleth.’” — editor's note: Psa. cxxii. 1.

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Ambrose of Milan

Augustine of Hippo

John Chrysostom

  • “Wherefore also He uttered a certain cry from the prophet,even to His last hour bearing witness to the Old Testament, and not simply a cry from the prophet, but also in Hebrew, so as to be plain and intelligible to them, and by all things He shows how He is of one mind with Him that begat Him.” — editor's note: Ps. xxii. 1.

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Catena Aurea on Matthew

  • JeromeCatena Aurea on Matthew

    “He employed the beginning of the twenty-first Psalm. [marg. note: Ps 22:1, Vulg.]” — the author cites it

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Theodoret of Cyrus

  • “There is introduced a confusion of the natures, and to God the Word are applied the words “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me;” and “Father, if it be possible let this cup pass from me,” the hunger, the thirst, and the strengthening by an angel; His saying “Now is my soul troubled,” and…” — editor's note: Ps. xxii. 1

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Jerome

  • “In the Hebrew the twenty-second psalm begins with the exact words which the Lord uttered on the cross: Eli Eli lama azabthani, which means, “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?”” — editor's note: Ps. xxii. 1.

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Tertullian

  • “…as is plain,—not for the stomach’s sake, to wit, but the soul’s; for the most part, however, to feed prayers on fastings, to groan, to weep and make outcries unto the Lord your God; to bow before the feet of the presbyters, and kneel to God’s dear ones; to enjoin on all the brethren to be ambassadors to bear his…” — editor's note: Cf. Ps. xxii. 1 (in LXX. xxii. 3), xxxviii. 8 (in the LXX. xxxvii. 9). Cf. Heb. v. 7.

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Gregory of Nazianzus

Leo the Great

  • “Hence it is that the Lord Jesus Christ, our Head, representing all the members of His body in Himself, and speaking for those whom He was redeeming in the punishment of the cross, uttered that cry which He had once uttered in the psalm, “O God, My God, look upon Me: why hast Thou forsaken Me?”” — editor's note: Ps. xxii. 1.

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Cross-references · 19

Cited together with

  • Cited together in On Repentance Chapter 9.

  • Cited together in On the Creed Chapter 10.

  • Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith II.7.

  • Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith II.7.

  • Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith II.7.

  • Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith II.7.

  • Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith II.7.

  • Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith II.7 and 1 other place.

  • Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith II.7.

  • Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith II.7.

  • Cited together in On Repentance Chapter 9.

  • Cited together in On the Creed Chapter 10.

  • Cited together in On Repentance Chapter 9.

  • Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith II.7.

  • Cited together in Letters Letter 171.

  • Cross-reference given by the World English Bible's translators.

  • Cross-reference given by the World English Bible's translators.

Quoted in

  • Matthew 27:46 takes up the words of Psalm 22:1 (8 words in common).

  • Mark 15:34 takes up the words of Psalm 22:1 (8 words in common).

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