Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Psalms 22:8
He trusted on the LORD [that] he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.
8. ‘Roll it upon Jehovah! let him deliver him:
Let him rescue him, for he delighteth in him.’
Ironically they bid the sufferer ‘roll’ i.e. commit his cause to Jehovah. The verb is certainly imperative, as in Psa 37:5; Pro 16:3; though the Versions all give the perfect tense, and the words are quoted in that form in Mat 27:43. Usage makes it certain that the subject in the last clause is Jehovah, as in Psa 18:19.
There is a remarkable parallel to this passage in Wis 2:16 ff. The ungodly say of the righteous man: “He maketh his boast that God is his Father. Let us see if his words be true, and let us prove what shall happen in the end of him. For if the just man be the son of God, he will help him, and deliver him from the hand of his enemies.” The whole passage is worth comparing.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
He trusted on the Lord that he would deliver him – Margin, He rolled himself on the Lord. The margin expresses the true sense of the Hebrew word. The idea is that of being under the pressure of a heavy burden, and of rolling it off, or casting it on another. Hence, the word is often used in the sense of committing to another; entrusting anything to another; confiding in another. Psa 37:5, commit thy way unto the Lord; Margin, as in Hebrew: Roll thy way upon the Lord. Pro 16:3, commit thy works unto the Lord, Margin, as in Hebrew: Roll. The language here is the taunting language of his enemies, and the meaning is that he had professed to commit himself to the Lord as if he were his friend; he had expressed confidence in God, and he believed that his cause was sate in His hand. This, too, was actually fulfilled in the ease of the Saviour. Mat 27:43, he trusted in God; let him deliver him now, if he will have him. It is one of the most remarkable instances of blindness and infatuation that has ever occurred in the world, that the Jews should have used this language in taunting the dying Redeemer, without even suspecting that they were fulfilling the prophecies, and demonstrating at the very time when they were reviling him that he was the true Messiah.
Let him deliver him – Let him come and save him. Since he professes to belong to God; since he claims that God loves him and regards him as his friend, let him come now and rescue one so dear to him. He is hopelessly abandoned by men. If God chooses to have one so abject, so despised, so forsaken, so helpless, let him come now and take him as his own. We will not rescue him; we will do nothing to save him, for we do not need him. If God wants him, let him come and save him. What blasphemy! What an exhibition of the dreadful depravity of the human heart was manifested in the crucifixion of the Redeemer!
Seeing he delighted in him – Margin, if he delight in him. The correct rendering is, for he delighted in him. That is, it was claimed by the sufferer that God delighted in him. If this is so, say they, let him come and rescue one so dear to himself. Let him show his friendship for this vagrant, this impostor, this despised and worthless man
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Psa 22:8
He trusted on the Lord that He would deliver him.
Faith among mockers
David experienced cruel mockings. The flesh may not be cut, but the heart may be torn. But text tells of the Lord Jesus. David knew reproach but in small measure compared with Him. It is the common heritage of the godly. But–
I. Their trust in God is known. Hence we learn–
1. Our trust in God should be apparent, manifest, public. That in Christ which revealed it was His wonderful calmness. We ought distinctly to avow our trust, life man has a right to be a secret believer.
2. Our general conduct should reveal our faith. If I trust the Lord about my soul I must trust Him about my body, wife, children, and all my affairs.
3. This trust should come out most distinctly in times of trouble. For then it is our adversaries are most likely to notice it. In bereavements, business troubles. Let the possession of godliness tell its own tale, the spikenard its own fragrance.
II. The world does not understand this trust. Our Lords enemies restricted His trust to the point of His being delivered. But–
1. Our faith is not confined to merely receiving from God. We must not live and wait upon God merely with a cupboard love.
2. Nor to what men call deliverance. Our Lord trusted still, though the cup did not pass from Him. The blind world cannot understand this. They say, like their father, Doth Job serve God for nought? And–
3. Our faith is not tied to time. Christs enemies thought that if the Lord did not deliver Him then, His trust would be proved a folly. But it is not so. We may not be delivered from our distresses tonight, nor tomorrow, nor next month; it may be for years. We do not tie God down to conditions, but we trust Him all the same.
4. Nor will it judge at all by present circumstances. How wrongly the world judged of Christ when it judged of Him by His sorrows.
III. This true faith will, in all probability, be mocked at some time or other.
1. Some men scoff at faith itself. It is an honour to have ones name written up on such an Arch of Triumph as that of Heb 11:1-40. But many think it no honour at all. They hold faith to be a folly of weak minds.
2. Others, at the very idea of Divine interposition. Look, they say, he fancies that God will deliver him; as if the Creator had not something else to do besides looking after him, poor miserable that he is! They believe in laws, they say, irreversible, immutable laws, that grind in like the great cogs of a machine which, when once they are set in motion, tear everything to pieces that comes in their way.
3. And some mock at all kinds of faith in the Divine love. How the world rages against electing love! The heathen could not make out a certain brave saint because he called himself Theophorus, or God bearer; but he stuck to it that he was so, though they hated him all the more.
4. Some find amusement in the trials involved in the life of faith. Their cry, Let Him deliver him, implies that their victim was in serious difficulty, but that was only sport to them. Such mocking is a part of the covenanted heritage.
IV. The time shall come when our trust shall be abundantly justified.
1. It is no small thing to have the ungodly bearing witness. He trusted in God. It helps one to believe that he is really Gods child.
2. Another justification will come when God shall deliver His people. That day will come. Dives sees Lazarus in Abrahams bosom: what a sight for him. At the last great day ungodly men will witness for the saints. They will have to own, They did trust, for we mocked them for it. But whether men mock or praise, we trust in God. (C. H. Spurgeon.)
Fuente: Biblical Illustrator Edited by Joseph S. Exell
He trusted on the Lord; he rolled himself
upon the Lord; where they seem to scoff not only at the thing, but at the expression. Their sense is, He pretended that he did wholly lean, and rest himself, and cast his cares upon God, and quietly and confidently commit all his affairs to his providence, assuring himself of a happy issue from him.
That he would deliver him; or, without any supplement, let him deliver him, as it follows, though the Hebrew words be differing. And so the same thing is twice repeated, to show both the vehemency of their hatred, and their confidence of success against him. They thought his case desperate, and past all hope and remedy.
Seeing he delighted in him, as he useth to allege and boast, but how vainly the event now showeth.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
8. trusted on the Lordliterally,”rolled”that is, his burden (Psa 37:5;Pro 16:3) on the Lord. This isthe language of enemies sporting with his faith in the hour of hisdesertion.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
He trusted on the Lord, [that] he would deliver him,…. Not that they spoke in a deriding way of the object of his trust, for, as impious as they were, this they did not do; but of his trust in the Lord, which they looked upon to be a false one, as would appear by his not being delivered, as he trusted; but his confidence was a well grounded one, though jeered at by these men, and he was delivered in the Lord’s own time and way from all his enemies, and out of all his troubles;
let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him; this is another ironical sarcastic flout, not at God, but at Christ, and at his profession of trust in God, his claim of interest in his favour, and of relation to him as being the Son of his love, in whom he was well pleased; he always was the delight of his Father; he expressed his well pleasedness in him at his baptism, and transfiguration on the mount; he took pleasure in him while he was suffering and dying in the room and stead of his people; and he delivered him, raised him from the dead, and brought him into a large place, because he delighted in him,
Ps 18:19; These very words were said by the Jews concerning Christ, as he hung upon the cross, Mt 27:43.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
How severe a temptation this must have been to David every man may judge from his own experience. But by the remedy he used he afforded a proof of the sincerity of his confidence: for unless he had had God as the undoubted witness and approver of the sincerity of his heart, he would never have dared to come before him with this complaint. Whenever, therefore, men charge us with hypocrisy, let it be our endeavor that the inward sincerity of our hearts may answer for us before God. And whenever Satan attempts to dislodge faith from our minds, by biting detraction and cruel derision, let this be our sacred anchors — to call upon God to witness it, and that, beholding it, he may be pleased to show his righteousness in maintaining our right, since his holy name cannot be branded with viler blasphemy than to say that those who put their trust in him are puffed up with vain confidence, and that those who persuade themselves that God loves them deceive themselves with a groundless fancy. As the Son of God was assailed with the same weapon, it is certain that Satan will not be more sparing of true believers who are his members than of him. They ought, therefore, to defend themselves from this consideration – that although men may regard them as in a desperate condition, yet, if they commit to God both themselves and all their affairs, their prayers will not be in vain. By the verb, גל, gol, which is rendered to commit, the nature and efficacy of faith are very well expressed, which, reposing itself upon the providence of God, relieves our minds from the burdens of the cares and troubles with which they are agitated.
Fuente: Calvin’s Complete Commentary
(8) He trusted.So the LXX. (Comp. Mat. 27:43.) So, too, Ewald among moderns. But generally the form gol (short for gl) is taken as an imperative. Literally, roll thyself on God. (Comp. Psa. 37:5; Pro. 16:3, margin.)
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
8. He trusted on the Lord let him deliver him Rather, He rolled himself upon Jehovah. This passage was derisively applied to Christ while on the cross, as a test of his divine Sonship. Mat 27:43. The whole verse is, in the Hebrew, intensely and cruelly sarcastic, and the refinement of blasphemy: “He rolled himself upon Jehovah; he will cause him to escape; he will rescue him, for he took pleasure in him!” Matthew follows almost verbatim the Septuagint.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Psa 22:8 He trusted on the LORD [that] he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.
Ver. 8. He trusted on the Lord that he would deliver him ] Is this a prophecy of our Saviour’s sufferings, or a history rather? See Mat 27:43 , See Trapp on “ Mat 27:43 “
Seeing he delighted in him
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
He, &c. Figure of speech Eironeia (Irony). App-6. Quoted in Mat 27:43. Mar 15:29. Luk 23:35.
trusted, &c. = devolved all on Jehovah. Hebrew. galal. See App-69.
the LORD. Hebrew. Jehovah. App-4.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
He trusted: Heb. rolled himself on, Psa 37:5, Psa 55:22, Pro 16:3, *marg. Mat 27:42, Mat 27:43
let him: Psa 3:1, Psa 3:2, Psa 42:10, Psa 71:11, Psa 91:14, Mar 15:30-32
seeing: etc. or, if he delight, Psa 18:19, Isa 42:1, Mat 3:17, Mat 12:18, Mat 17:5, Luk 23:35
Reciprocal: Gen 37:19 – Behold Num 14:8 – delight 2Sa 22:20 – delighted 1Ki 10:9 – delighteth 2Ki 18:30 – make you 2Ki 19:21 – shaken her head 2Ch 9:8 – General 2Ch 32:11 – The Lord our God Job 12:4 – one mocked Psa 13:2 – exalted Psa 14:6 – Ye Psa 16:1 – for Psa 25:2 – O Psa 42:3 – while Psa 60:5 – That Psa 149:4 – taketh pleasure Isa 36:15 – General Isa 37:10 – Let not Isa 37:22 – shaken Mat 20:19 – to mock Mat 27:22 – What Mar 15:29 – they