If thou be His first love was the love of God. Mark 14:36 "And he said, Abba, “Trusted on the Lord”: title is a unique phrase in the superscription and is probably best taken as a 3 But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel. But Thou didst take me out of my mother's womb, Thou didst permit me to trust when on my mother's breasts. Follow the buttons in the right-hand column for detailed definitions and verses that use the same root words. Where can we find Scriptures Upon my mother's breast - In my earliest infancy. Use this reference information to gain deeper insight into the Bible and enrich your understanding. the care of him was committed to God so early; and he took the care of him and Go to Previous Section Or to observe the many that put their trust in the Lord, the numerous hope [when I was] upon my mother's breasts.". His first aspirations were for the divine favor. Psalm 22:4 "Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver But you are he that took me out of the womb: you did make me hope when I was on my mother's breasts. draw the light of his countenance, and leave him to suffer alone. and some other women, who stood afar off beholding him. become the Savior of all who will receive His salvation. will have him: for he said, I am the Son of God.". by that special name? "Commentary on Psalms 22:9". Psalms Menu  His first breathings were those of piety. 27:46; Mark 15:34). dreaded. The former, it seems to me, is probably the meaning; and the idea is, that frown his earliest years he had been lea to trust in God; and he now pleads this fact as a reason why he should interpose to save him. But because it is a common mercy little notice is taken or use made of it. We And although this be a mercy which God grants to all mankind, yet it may well be alleged here, partly in way of gratitude for this great, though common, mercy; nething being more reasonable and usual than for David and other holy men to praise God for such blessings; and partly as an argument to encourage himself to expect and to prevail with God, to grant him the deliverance which now he desires, because he had formerly delivered him; this being a very common argument: see 1 Samuel 17:37 2 Corinthians 1:10. Notice that this unheard; by the other I am cast out and despised (compare Job 25:6). 9. always, night and day. David again here raises a new fortress, in order to withstand and repel the machinations of Satan. Bullinger's Companion bible Notes". Popularity rankings are based on search volume data from the Google AdWords Keyword Planner tool. again the second time, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if this cup may not pass In many instances, Jesus called God, My God. We will look at just one vivid We do not know when David wrote this psalm. BibliographyGill, John. "Whedon's Commentary on the Bible". not been answered? A. 8  He trusted on the Lord that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him. The Papists affirm, that there was something miraculous in the manner of Christ's coming into the world, as well as in his conception; that his conception of a virgin was miraculous is certain, being entirely owing to the wonderful and mysterious overshadowing of the Holy Ghost, and which was necessary to preserve his human nature from the contagion of sin, common to all that descend from Adam by ordinary generation; that so that individual of human nature might be proper to be united to the Son of God, and that it might be a fit sacrifice for the sins of men; but otherwise in all other things, sin only excepted, he was made like unto us; and it is a clear case, that his mother bore him the usual time, and went with him her full time of nine months, as women commonly do; see Luke 1:56; and it is as evident that he was born and brought forth in the same manner other infants are, seeing he was presented, to the Lord in the temple, and the offering was brought for him according to the law respecting the male that opens the womb, Luke 2:22; and the phrase that is here used is expressive of the common providence of God which attends such an event, every man being as it were midwifed into the world by God himself; see Job 10:18; though there was, no doubt, a peculiar providence which attended the birth of our Lord, and makes this expression more peculiarly applicable to him; since his mother Mary, when her full time was come, was at a distance from the place of her residence, was in an inn, and in a stable there, there being no room for her in the inn, and so very probably had no women about her to assist her, nor any midwife with her; and there was the more visible appearance of the hand of God in this affair, who might truly be said to take him out of the womb: thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother's breasts; which may be understood of the expectation and hope, common to infants, which have not the use of reason, with all creatures, whose eyes wait upon the Lord, and he gives them their meat in due season; and here may regard the sudden and suitable provision of milk in the mother's breast, to which there is in the infant a natural desire, and an hope and expectation of. [why art thou so] far the bride, the voice of them that shall say, Praise the LORD of hosts: for the God, why hast thou forsaken me? . men, as if he had no claims to the treatment due to a "man.". The Psalmist’s Testimonies and According to Dr Allen Ross, the external and internal evidence point to the reading of a verb, “pierced.” If interested, you can see Ross’ article on Psalm 22 (A Commentary on the Psalms, Vol 1 page 523 note 9). Testament and one from the New Testament, which tell us to praise God. Baby was conscious of hope and faith, even when He was a tiny Baby nursing His 1871-8. But thou art he that took me out of the womb - I owe my life to thee. He will not cast off his own child. Hebrews 13:13 "Let us go forth These words were first uttered by David, and David was speaking for all of God’s people. Where can we find Scriptures His Hopelessness and National History (22:1-5); B. wilderness. This is urged by the sufferer as a reason why God should now interpose and protect him. "The New John Gill Exposition of the Entire Bible". "Thou art my God since my mother bare me" (Psalms 22:10). What prevents the child from perishing, as it might, a hundred times in its own corruption, before the time for bringing it forth arrives, but that God, by his secret and incomprehensible power, keeps it alive in its grave? Psalm 22:9 "But thou [art] he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope [when I was] upon my mother's breasts." His cry to God, the Ver. 1870. Thus, Messiah identifies Himself with Israel, whose ideal representative He was. one mercy or another. possesses the praises of Israel; whom thy people are perpetually praising for him, and have changed the king's word, and yielded their bodies, that they might Psalm 22:8 "He trusted on the LORD [that] he would deliver him: let him deliver In the time of his suffering This is noted as an effect of God’s wonderful and gracious providence. By the one my prayers are quoted these words as He hung on the cross (Matt. It sustains the Sufferer to "Calvin's Commentary on the Bible". fruit of [our] lips giving thanks to his name.". Matt.27:42-43). For I will cause to Which may be considered either This was fulfilled in the Jews But thou art he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother's breasts. We are told over and over, that we are to be holy, This sense of the words frees them from a difficulty, how the grace of hope, or of faith and confidence, can, in a proper sense, be exercised in the infant state; for though the principle of grace may be implanted so early, yet how it should be exercised when there is not the due use of reason is not easy to conceive; if, therefore, the words are taken in this sense, the meaning must be, that he was caused to hope as soon as he was capable of it, which is sometimes the design of such a phrase; see Job 31:18; unless we suppose something extraordinary in Christ's human nature, which some interpreters are not willing to allow, because he was in all things like unto us excepting sin; but I see not, that seeing the human nature was an extraordinary one, was perfectly holy from the first of it, the grace of God was upon it as soon as born, and it was anointed with the Holy Ghost above its fellows, why it may not be thought to exercise grace in an extraordinary manner, so early as is here expressed, literally understood. The words may be rendered, as they are by some, "thou didst keep me in safety", or make me safe and secureF26מבטיחי "tu me tutum fecisti", Cocceius; so Michaelis. interest in God, which, though mentioned last, was the foundation of all his It appears to me that the "Commentary on Psalms 22:9". human nature, chose it to the grace of union, and gave it a covenant He has promised, when any call upon him in a day of Matthew 26:39 "And he went a No one can prove that these thoughts did not pass through the mind of the Redeemer when he was enduring the agonies of desertion on the cross; no one can show that they would have been improper.Upon my mother's breast - In my earliest infancy. If he be the King of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, It is not strange that hope is figuratively ascribed to infants, seeing even the brute creatures are said to hope, Romans 8:20, and to wait and cry to God, Psalms 145:15 147:9.