Psalm 22:1-3

Amplified Bible, Classic Edition

¹My God, my God, why have You forsaken me? Why are You so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning?^(A)

²O my God, I cry in the daytime, but You answer not; and by night I am not silent or find no rest.

³But You are holy, O You Who dwell in [the holy place where] the praises of Israel [are offered].

Psalm 22:1 “This is beyond all others ‘The Psalm of the Cross.’ It may have been actually repeated by our Lord when hanging on the tree; it would be too bold to say so, but even a casual reader may see that it might have been. It begins with, ‘My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?’ and ends [with the thought], ‘It is finished.’ For plaintive expressions uprising from unutterable depths of woe, we may say of this psalm, ‘There is none like it’” (Charles Haddon Spurgeon, The Treasury of David). Quoted in the Gospels (Matt. 27:46; Mark 15:34; and alluded to in Matt. 27:35, 39, 43 and John 19:23-24, 28) as being fulfilled at Christ’s crucifixion.