Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Psalms 22:10
I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou [art] my God from my mother’s belly.
10. Upon thee have I been cast &c. Upon thee stands first emphatically. Cp. Psa 22:4-5. To THY care have I been entrusted from my birth. Cp. Psa 55:22; Psa 71:6. There does not seem to be any reference to the practice of placing a new-born infant upon its father’s knees, as much as to say, Thou didst adopt me.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
I was cast upon thee from the womb – Upon thy protection and care. This, too, is an argument for the divine interposition. He had been, as it were, thrown early in life upon the protecting care of God. In some special sense he had been more unprotected and defenseless than is common at that period of life, and he owed his preservation then entirely to God. This, too, may have passed through the mind of the Redeemer on the cross. In those sad and desolate moments he may have recalled the scenes of his early life – the events which had occurred in regard to him in his early years; the poverty of his mother, the manger, the persecution by Herod, the flight into Egypt, the return, the safety which he then enjoyed from persecution in a distant part of the land of Palestine, in the obscure and unknown village of Nazareth. This too may have occurred to his mind as a reason why God should interpose and deliver him from the dreadful darkness which had come over him now.
Thou art my God from my mothers belly – Thou hast been my God from my very childhood. He had loved God as such; be had obeyed him as such; he had trusted him as such; and he now pleads this as a reason why God should interpose for him.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
I was like one forsaken by his parent, and cast wholly upon thy providence. I had no father upon earth, and my mother was poor and helpless.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
I was cast upon thee from the womb,…. Either by himself, trusting in God, hoping in him, and casting all the care of himself upon him; or by his parents, who knew the danger he was exposed to, and what schemes were laid to take away his life; and therefore did, in the use of all means they were directed to, commit him to the care and protection of God: the sense is, that the care of him was committed to God so early; and he took the care of him and gave full proof of it:
thou [art] my God from my mother’s belly: God was his covenant God from everlasting, as he loved his human nature, chose it to the grace of union, and gave it a covenant subsistence; but he showed himself to be his God in time, and that very early, calling him from the womb, and making mention of his name from his mother’s belly, and preserving him from danger in his infancy; and it was his covenant interest in God, which, though mentioned last, was the foundation of all his providential care of him and goodness to him. Now all these early appearances of the power and providence of God, on the behalf of Christ as man, are spoken of in opposition to the scoffs and flouts of his enemies about his trust in God, and deliverance by him, and to encourage his faith and confidence in him; as well as are so many reasons and arguments with God yet to be with him, help and assist him, as follows.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
Psa 22:10 I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou [art] my God from my mother’s belly.
Ver. 10. I was cast upon thee from the womb ] Id est, a patre et matre mea, saith Kimchi, by my father and my mother, whom thou, Lord, feddest, and filledst her breasts, that she might suckle me, Veluti exposititius tibi fui a matrice (Vat.). Did men but seriously consider what kept and fed them in the womb, and at the breasts, when neither they could shift for themselves, nor their parents do much for them, they would conclude he would much more now by their holy prayers, honest endeavours, &c.
Thou art my God from my mother’s belly] This is a privilege proper to children born within the covenant, and they may claim it; they have God for their God from their nativity; and they may lay their reckoning so in all their addresses unto God.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
cast: Isa 46:3, Isa 46:4, Isa 49:1, Luk 2:40, Luk 2:52
thou: Joh 20:17
from: Jer 1:5, Gal 1:15
Reciprocal: Exo 15:2 – my God Job 3:11 – when I came Psa 58:3 – as soon Psa 71:5 – my trust Psa 71:6 – By thee Psa 139:13 – covered me Ecc 12:1 – Remember Luk 1:41 – the babe 2Ti 1:5 – thy mother
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
22:10 I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou [art] my God from my mother’s {f} belly.
(f) For unless God’s providence preserves the infants, they would perish a thousand times in the mother’s womb.