Psalms 22:1–5
David cries out from a place of deep abandonment, yet He anchors His hope in God’s holiness and the record of His faithfulness to previous generations.
1 My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning?
2 My God, I cry in the daytime, but you don’t answer; in the night season, and am not silent.
3 But you are holy, you who inhabit the praises of Israel.
4 Our fathers trusted in you. They trusted, and you delivered them.
5 They cried to you, and were delivered. They trusted in you, and were not disappointed.
David cries out from a place of deep abandonment, yet he anchors his hope in God’s holiness and the record of His faithfulness to previous generations.
To express the profound spiritual agony of perceived divine abandonment and to appeal for rescue based on God's character and His history of delivering His people.
The Forsaken Sufferer and the Worldwide Praise of the LORD
The righteous sufferer brings felt abandonment, shame, and deadly opposition to the LORD, and the LORD's deliverance becomes praise that reaches the congregation, the nations, and generations yet unborn.