Psalms 22:19

But be not thou far from me, O Lord,.... See Gill on Psa 22:11;

O my strength; Christ as God is the mighty God, the Almighty; as Mediator, he is the strength of his people; but, as man, God is his…

But be not thou far from me, O Lord - “O Yahweh.” Others - all others - have forsaken me, and left me to perish. Now, in the day of my desertion and my peril, be thou near to me. See Psa 22:11. This…

In these verses we have Christ suffering and Christ praying, by which we are directed to look for crosses and to look up to God under them.

I. Here is Christ suffering. David indeed was often in…

The prayer for help is repeated after this description of the urgency of his need. But thou, O lord (in emphatic contrast to they in Psa 22:22), keep not thou far off. The sufferer looks away from his…