Albert Barnes Commentary Psalms 22:19

"But be not thou far off, O Jehovah: O thou my succor, haste thee to help me." — Psalms 22:19 (ASV)

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 you near to me. See Psalm 22:11. This is the burden of the prayer in the whole psalm, that God would not leave him, but sustain and deliver him. Compare to Psalm 22:1.

O my strength - Source of my strength; you on whom I rely for support and deliverance.

Haste thee to help me - Help me speedily. Come to support me; come to deliver me from these dreadful sorrows. This is not necessarily a prayer to be rescued from death, but it would be applicable to deliverance from those deep mental sorrows that had come upon him—from this abandonment to unutterable woes.