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 15:34At the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, “Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?” which is, being interpreted, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”
• Matt 27:46About the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, “Eli, Eli, lima sabachthani?” That is, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”
• Heb 5:7He, in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and petitions with strong crying and tears to him who was able to save him from death, and having been heard for his godly fear,
• Ps 22:16For dogs have surrounded me. A company of evildoers have enclosed me. They have pierced my hands and feet.
• Job 3:24For my sighing comes before I eat. My groanings are poured out like water.
• Ps 43:1–5Vindicate me, God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation. Oh, deliver me from deceitful and wicked men.
• Ps 10:1Why do you stand far off, Yahweh? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?
• Luke 24:44He said to them, “This is what I told you, while I was still with you, that all things which are written in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms, concerning me must be fulfilled.”
• Ps 31:14–16But I trust in you, Yahweh. I said, “You are my God.”
• 1 Sam 12:22For Yahweh will not forsake his people for his great name’s sake, because it has pleased Yahweh to make you a people for himself.
• Ps 22:11Don’t be far from me, for trouble is near. For there is no one to help.
• Heb 13:5Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.”
• Ps 71:11saying, “God has forsaken him. Pursue and take him, for no one will rescue him.”
• Ps 32:3–4When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.
• Isa 46:13I bring my righteousness near. It is not far off, and my salvation will not wait. I will grant salvation to Zion, my glory to Israel.
• Ps 42:1–2For the Chief Musician. A contemplation by the sons of Korah. As the deer pants for the water brooks, so my soul pants after you, God.
• Ps 16:1A Poem by David. Preserve me, God, for in you do I take refuge.
• Ps 37:28For Yahweh loves justice, and doesn’t forsake his saints. They are preserved forever, but the children of the wicked shall be cut off.
• Luke 22:44Being in agony he prayed more earnestly. His sweat became like great drops of blood falling down on the ground.
• Ps 38:8I am faint and severely bruised. I have groaned by reason of the anguish of my heart.
• Isa 59:11We all roar like bears, and moan bitterly like doves. We look for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.
• Ps 26:9Don’t gather my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloodthirsty men;

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