Psalms 22:1

David cries out, 'My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?'-an anguished plea of feeling abandoned in suffering. Jesus quoted these very words on the cross.

Cross-references · 22

• Mark 15:34And 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 27:46And 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 5:7Who 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 22:16For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.
• Job 3:24For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.
• Ps 43:1–5Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.
• Ps 10:1Why standest thou afar off, O LORD? why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble?
• Luke 24:44And 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 31:14–16But I trusted in thee, O LORD: I said, Thou art my God.
• 1 Sam 12:22For 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 22:11Be not far from me; for trouble is near; for there is none to help.
• Heb 13:5Let 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.
• Ps 71:11Saying, God hath forsaken him: persecute and take him; for there is none to deliver him.
• Ps 32:3–4When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.
• Isa 46:13I 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.
• Ps 42:1–2As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.
• Ps 16:1Preserve me, O God: for in thee do I put my trust.
• Ps 37:28For the LORD loveth judgment, and forsaketh not his saints; they are preserved for ever: but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off.
• Luke 22:44And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.
• Ps 38:8I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.
• Isa 59:11We 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.
• Ps 26:9Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloody men:

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