Psalms 22:20

Deliver my soul from the sword,.... Wicked men, whose tongues were as a sharp sword, reproaching and blaspheming him, and bearing false witness against him; and crying out, "Crucify him, crucify him",…

Deliver my soul from the sword - The word soul here means life, and denotes a living person. It is equivalent to “deliver me.” “The sword” is used to denote an instrument of death, or anything that…

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…

from the sword From a violent death.

my darling Lit., my only one. The clue to the meaning is given by the use of the word of an only child(Gen 22:2; Jdg 11:34). The word denotes the one precious life…