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My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning?
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Christ's Ultimate Suffering
All commentators agree this verse is a direct prophecy of Jesus' cry from the cross. They explain that this feeling of being 'forsaken' was the climax of His suffering. It was not a separation from God the Father in essence, but a withdrawal of God's felt presence as Jesus bore the full penalty for human sin. This spiritual agony was far greater than the physical pain of crucifixion.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
My God, my God - These are the very words uttered by the Savior when on the cross (Matthew 27:46); and he evidently use…
19th Century
Anglican
My God, my God. —Hebrew, Eli, Eli, lama azavtanî, where the Targum paraphrases sabbacthani, the form used by our…
Baptist
My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me! why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?
That was the very …
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16th Century
Protestant
My God! The first verse contains two remarkable sentences, which, although apparently contrary to each other, yet continually enter into t…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
My God, my God
God is the God of Christ as he is man; he prepared a body for him, an human nature; anointed it wit…
The Spirit of Christ, who was in the prophets, testifies clearly and fully in this psalm to the sufferings of Christ and the glory that would follo…
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13th Century
Catholic
In the previous psalms, the sufferings which David endured from his son and from Saul seemed to be addressed. Now here, in the third set …
