PSALM 22 * The Prayer of an Innocent Person. The two כּי are alike. This does not mean that he literally cherished hope then, but that he had done it in the earliest period of his life, as the first act of his conscious being. Look at Psalm 9: 8. Upon my mother's breast - In my earliest infancy. Which may be considered either … Borne out of a gut-wrenching anguish, Psalm 22 is the cry of one who knows what it is to be bullied by his enemies, rejected by his community, and abandoned by God.1 The threat for the psalmist is imminent as a “company of evildoers” surrounds him like bulls ready to attack and lions eager to … Continue reading "Commentary on Psalm 22" But thou art he that took me out of the womb] When, but for thine almighty midwifery, I might have been strangled; or, as an untimely birth, never seen the sun. NASB (UPDATED) TEXT: PSALM 22:9-10 9 Yet You are He who brought me forth from the womb; You made me trust when upon my mother's breasts. Thou didst make me hope - Margin, "Keptest me in safety." 1999. His disciples and family have left him alone; all have gone. This also is evident, as was seen in the introduction, from the passage, Psalms 22:22-26. Thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother's breasts. We must, therefore, just consider גהי as the infinitive,—"my breaking forth." "Trouble is near; there is none to help" (Psalms 22:11). Psalm 22:9 Parallel Verses [⇓ See commentary ⇓] Psalm 22:9, NIV: "Yet you brought me out of the womb; you made me trust in you, even at my mother's breast." (Psalms 22:9-11 RSV) How utterly forsaken he is! Finally, David concludes that God was his God. BibliographyPoole, Matthew, "Commentary on Psalms 22:9". This part of the Psalm in Psalm 22:9–12 is more of a whole picture of the whole Psalm as this psalm is a very prophetic Illustration of the Lord whom was to Come. This shows the English words related to the source biblical texts along with brief definitions. God's creatures have always a claim upon him from the very fact that they are his creatures. To the tune of “The Doe of the Morning.” A psalm of David. The term difficult. Psalm 22:9: Yet you brought me out of the womb; you made me trust in you, even at my mother's breast. "But thou art he that took me out of the womb; Thou didst make me trust when I was upon my mother's breasts. BibliographyTrapp, John. "Commentary on Psalms 22:9". https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/tsk/psalms-22.html. batah. Only God is left and now he senses that God himself is forsaking him. But because it is a common mercy little notice is taken or use made of it. At the bottom of the matrix, the words ןוילע (elyon) m eaning the highest and ךלמ (melekh) meaning king intersect. and give you support from p Zion! But if ingratitude did not put upon our eyes the veil of stupidity, we would be ravished with admiration at every childbirth in the world. His first breathings were those of piety. Ver. Psalms 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. "Commentary on Psalms 22:9". What the sufferer pleads is, the abundant cause for trust which God gave Him by loving care from earliest infancy. Psalm 22:9 New International Version (NIV) 9 Yet you brought me out of the womb; you made me trust in you, even at my mother’s breast. upon Jahve, i.e., directed to go to Him, and to Him alone, with all his wants and care (Psalm 55:23, cf. His first aspirations were for the divine favor. Yea, he declares that even before he was born God had shown towards him such evidence of his fatherly love, that although now overwhelmed with the darkness of death, he might upon good ground venture to hope for life from him. 1871-8. [9] The torture described here is clearly that of a crucifixion, a form of execution, which, as far as we can determine, had never at that time been used by any government. All Rightes Reserved, Larry Pierce, Winterbourne, Ontario.A printed copy of this work can be ordered from: The Baptist Standard Bearer, 1 Iron Oaks Dr, Paris, AR, 72855. This often gives us help to understand and to translate a psalm. This is urged by the sufferer as a reason why God should now interpose and protect him. "Commentary on Psalms 22:9". Go to. 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. The argument is given Matthew 6:25. Every sufferer may appeal to God as his Maker, and therefore bound to be his Helper and Preserver. An infant cannot consciously trust in God. 1840-57. It cannot be the participle, "my drawer forth;" for גוח signifies always, and even in Micah 4:10, to break forth: this form of the participle, moreover, is always intransitive; Ewald, § 140. Thou didst make me hope.—Better, thou didst make me repose on my mother’s breast. 9.Surely thou. "This is not the description of an illness, but of an execution"! "Commentary on Psalms 22:9". 9. The Jewish Sages contemplate Psalm 22. "Thou art my God since my mother bare me" (Psalms 22:10). When I was upon my mother’s breasts, i.e. 2 May he send you help from o the sanctuary. "The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge". While the Jewish commentary tries to explain the meaning of Psalm 22 as pertaining only to David, the sufferings described clearly exceed what David suffered during his life. But thou art he, etc.—The strong adversative force of the Hebrew conjunction indicates the firm, withstanding faith of the Sufferer. Copyright StatementThese files are public domain. John Trapp Complete Commentary. God is still his Father; and he who gave being at first, and nourished the flickering life of infancy, will not now abandon the life he gave. In a sense, this is true of all men, "But of the Holy Child, it was most true (Luke 2:40,49,52)."[8]. He briefly enumerates the benefits which God had bestowed upon him, by which he had long since learned that he was his father. Used by Permission. Thou didst make me hope, or trust, i.e. didst make me hope—literally, "made me secure.". This often made the words come in the wrong order, like Psalm 9: 3. BibliographyHengstenberg, Ernst. 9. Great Jewish commentators like Rashi understood that in this chapter David is not only speaking about himself, but about the coming Messiah. (Note: The Hoph. "Commentary on Psalms 22:9". Psalm 22:9 Why Have You Forsaken Me? "The New John Gill Exposition of the Entire Bible". Try, and you will then understand what it is to see the Divine majesty employed and taken up with childish, that is, with small, insignificant, yea contemptible works." Share. (3-5) Remembrance of God’s nature and prior help. His first aspirations were for the divine favor. But thou art he that took me out of the womb - Thou hast made me; and hast guided and defended me from my earliest infancy. In the remembrance of the care bestowed on his early years, he may now have looked with an eye of earnest pleading to God, that, if it were possible, he might deliver him. BibliographyCalvin, John. Thou didst make me hope.—Better, thou didst make me repose on my mother’s breast. 3 May he q remember all your offerings. On the ground of his fellowship with God, which extends so far back, goes forth the cry for help (Psalm 22:12), which has been faintly heard through all the preceding verses, but now only comes to direct utterance for the first time. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/bnb/psalms-22.html. Not many of the psalms are acrostics. We simply cannot understand why any Christian writer could complain that the Scriptures here are so general, "That no particular illness, or distressful situation can be identified." "Commentary on Psalms 22:9". 7699. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/gsb/psalms-22.html. 1599-1645. "Commentary on Psalms 22:9". The Messiah’s work on the cross Copyright StatementThese files are public domain.Text Courtesy of BibleSupport.com. "Calvin's Commentary on the Bible". Psalms 22:21 Save me from the lion’s mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns.. Ver. Psalms 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. Thou art he that took me. of the womb, to wit, immediately and by himself, and without the help of any man, by the miraculous operation of the Holy Ghost, which made him there, or else he could never have been brought thence. thou didst give me sufficient ground for hope and trust, if I had then been capable of acting that grace, because of thy wonderful and watchful care over me in that weak and helpless state; which was eminently true of Christ, whom God so miraculously preserved and provided for in his infancy; the history whereof we read Mt 2. Psalm 22:9 Yet You are He who brought me forth from the womb;You made me trust when upon my mother’s breasts. 1832. Thou didst make me hope] Or, keptest me in safety; for puerilitas est periculorum pelagus, a thousand deaths and dangers little ones are subject to; but God preserveth and provideth: et haec non sunt per accidens, saith Kimchi, these things are not by chance, but by Divine providence. We ought to regard it as an established principle, that as God never wearies in the exercise of his liberality, and as the most exuberant bestowment cannot exhaust his riches, it follows that, as we have experienced him to be a father from our earliest infancy, he will show himself the same towards us even to extreme old age. Psalms 22:9 King James Version (KJV) But thou art he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother's breasts. "But thou [art] holy, [O thou] that inhabitest the praises of Israel." David again here raises a new fortress, in order to withstand and repel the machinations of Satan. What does this verse really mean? New International Version (NIV) 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. "Coffman Commentaries on the Old and New Testament". His first love was the love of God. BibliographyGill, John. , when I was "upon my mother's breast": this was verified in Christ at the time Herod sought to take away his life; he was then in his mother's arms, and sucked at her breast; when the Lord in a dream acquainted Joseph with Herod's design, and directed him to flee with the young child and his mother into Egypt, where they were kept in safety till the death of Herod. . But this is applicable to Christ in a singular manner, not as a late learned writer takes it, that God separated him from the womb, but that God did bring him out (as the word properly signifies). Twice he mentions his mother. My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?Why are The phrase in the Hebrew means, Thou didst cause me to trust or to hope. Applied to the Redeemer as a man, it means that in his earliest childhood he had trusted in God. The gift of life is the greater blessing, and will God withhold the lesser? Applied to the Redeemer as a man, it means that in his earliest childhood he had trusted in God. Psalm 22 is the prayer of a suffering martyr, who suffers unto death for the sake of his people, and is about salvation and resurrection by God as an answer to prayer. Psalm 71:6), that from the womb onwards Jahve was his God, there is also more in it than the purely objective idea, that he grew up into such a relationship to God. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/bul/psalms-22.html. ; Fausset, A. R.; Brown, David. Thus, Messiah identifies Himself with Israel, whose ideal representative He was. 20 May the L ord l answer you in the day of trouble! Since God anticipates in this manner, by his grace, little infants before they have as yet the use of reason, it is certain that he will never disappoint the hope of his servants when they petition and call upon him. John Trapp Complete Commentary. He has given him good ground for exercising that confidence which is always followed by deliverance. 22:9 But thou [art] he that took me out of the e womb: thou didst make me hope [when I was] upon my mother's breasts. "Commentary on Psalms 22:9". Copyright StatementThe New John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible Modernised and adapted for the computer by Larry Pierce of Online Bible. (z) "tu me tutum fecisti", Cocceius; so Michaelis. He will not cast off his own child. BibliographyBeza, Theodore. His first breathings were those of piety. "Whedon's Commentary on the Bible". The words may be rendered, as they are by some, "thou didst keep me in safety", or make me safe and secure (z), when I was "upon my mother's breast": this was verified in Christ at the time Herod sought to take away his life; he was then in his mother's arms, and sucked at her breast; when the Lord in a dream acquainted Joseph with Herod's design, and directed him to flee with the young child and his mother into Egypt, where they were kept in safety till the death of Herod. Here the first section closes. 10 Upon You I was cast from birth; You have been my God from my mother's womb. The 2 parts of the verse mean the same. He says that from the very moment of his birth he was in fellowship with God. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/cal/psalms-22.html. 1865-1868. This he now calls to remembrance; this he now urges as a reason why God should not with. 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. 9. Another way the Jews wrote poetry was to use an acrostic. BibliographyTorrey, R. A. His friends have rejected him and fled. He does not yet experience God’s deliverance, and he … He was a man, with all the innocent propensities and feelings of a man; and no one can say but that when on the cross - and perhaps with special fitness we may say when he saw his mother standing near him John 19:25 - these thoughts may have passed through his mind. The still obscurer expression גּוֹוִי, in the borrowed passage, Psalms 71:6, gives us no assistance. 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. All other rights reserved. Thou art he, &c. — This seems to refer to the miraculous conception of Christ, who was the Son of God, in a sense in which no other man ever was, being formed, as to his human nature, by the power of God, in the womb of a pure virgin. God took the nation up from its political infancy (Ezekiel 16:1-63; Hosea 11:1); and delivered it out of Egypt, even as He delivered the Antitype, Messiah out of the same land (Matthew 2:13-15). Why so far from my call for help, from my cries of anguish? 4 May he r grant you your heart’s desire. It is no illness whatever that is described here. Psalms 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. This is noted as an effect of God’s wonderful and gracious providence. Although thoughts such as these may appear childish, effeminate, and unseasonable, for those who are in such pain and conflicts, yet experience here teaches us to remember these tender, cheerful, lovely works of God, to seek a place of refuge when suffering the hard bites of the wrath and of the rod of God, and to enjoy the sweet and pleasant milk of our mother's heart, and all these other acts of mercy which were shown during the years of infancy. It may mean here either that he was made to cherish a hope of the divine favor "in very early life," as it were when an infant at the breast; or it may mean that he had cause then to hope, or to trust in God. Ernst Hengstenberg on John, Revelation, Ecclesiastes, Ezekiel & Psalms. BibliographyBullinger, Ethelbert William. Read Full Chapter. has o, not u, perhaps in a more neuter sense, more closely approximating the reflexive (cf. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/jtc/psalms-22.html. Make me hope The same Hebrew verb ( mabTiychiy (Hebrew #982)) as is translated "trusted" in Psalms 22:4-5; to this Make me hope. 22:9 Kiy-aTäh gochi y mi Bä†en mav'†iychi y al-sh'dëy iMi y 22:9 But x3588 thou x859 [art] he that took 1518 z8801 me out of the womb: 990 x4480 thou didst make me hope 982 z8688 [when I was] upon x5921 my mother's 517 breasts. דוְאַתָּ֥ה קָד֑וֹשׁ י֜וֹשֵׁ֗ב תְּהִלּ֥וֹת יִשְׂרָאֵֽל: But You are holy: … Here he asserts what he had before implied-namely, that God has had the same care for Him from his earliest being, and is as truly His God as He was the God of the fathers who trusted in Him (Psalms 22:4); and this is the ground of the prayer in Psalms 22:11, "Be not far from me." God, it is true, to all appearance, shows the like goodness which is here celebrated even to the brute creation; but it is only to mankind that he shows himself to be a father in a special manner. 1685. 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. His mockers had taunted Him, as if His present misery showed the emptiness of the saying that God "delighted in Him" (Psalms 22:8). 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. He knows no explanation for this. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/jfu/psalms-22.html. 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. The phrase in the Hebrew means, Thou didst cause me to trust or to hope. Much like Isaiah 53, Psalm 22 describes the Messiah’s torment, rejection and death. His first love was the love of God. Psalms 71:6 By You I have been upheld from birth; You are He who took me out of my mother's womb. Ezekiel 32:19 with Ezekiel 32:32), rather than a purely passive. A Psalm of David. is cut off except this, I have not forsaken thee: and full preparation is made for the prayer, Psalms 22:11, Be not far from me. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/geb/psalms-22.html. Bullinger's Companion bible Notes". Psalms 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. There is nothing improper in applying this to the Messiah. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/ebc/psalms-22.html. מבטיחי refers back to בטחו in Psalms 22:4 and Psalms 22:5 :—to make or permit to trust, is to give ground to trust, to warrant to do so; and this God had done to the sufferer, fly protecting him in his early youth. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/mpc/psalms-22.html. May m the name of the God of Jacob n protect you! But thou art he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother's breasts. Psalm 22:9, KJV: "But thou art he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother's breasts." Verse 9. BibliographyJamieson, Robert, D.D. "Commentary on Psalms 22:9". Now, whoever is entitled to trust, and it does not depend on whether a man is yet capable of trusting, is also entitled to help. by night, but I have no relief. Psalm 71:20 "[Thou], which hast showed me great and sore troubles, shalt quicken me again, and shalt bring me up again from the depths of the earth." 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. (9) But.—Better, For. a 3 My God, I call by day, but you do not answer;. Hebrew. BibliographyClarke, Adam. Copyright StatementJames Burton Coffman Commentaries reproduced by permission of Abilene Christian University Press, Abilene, Texas, USA. Now, we would like to demonstrate how even our Jewish Sages recognized and admitted that Psalm 22 was a prophetic psalm about the Messiah. (e) Even from my birth you have given me opportunity to trust in you. Psalms 22:10 I was cast upon thee from the … you are the glory of Israel. (e) Even from my birth you have given me opportunity to trust in you. That the necessity is near at hand, i.e., urgent, refers back antithetically to the prayer, that God would not remain afar off; no one doth, nor can help except He alone. A Psalm of David. Thou didst make me hope - Margin, “Keptest me in safety.” The phrase in the Hebrew means, Thou didst cause me to trust or to hope. The sufferer had hitherto, while complaining of its being altogether anomalous that God should forsake him, silently taken it for granted, that he stood in quite the same relation toward God as those who had been gladdened by deliverances vouchsafed by God. This connection is all the more suitable, when we observe that the mockers took, "He has pleasure in him," out of the lips of the sufferer, and spoke it out of his soul: What they in contempt upbraid me with, I have with perfect truth asserted; for Thou, etc. To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use our convenient, But thou art he that took me out of the womb -, "Thou art my God since my mother bare me", John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible, But thou art he that took me out of the womb, Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Unabridged, Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers, Commentary Critical and Explanatory - Unabridged, Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible, Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures. And the words of the praying one here also imply that the beginning of his life, as regards its outward circumstances, was amidst poverty, which likewise accords with the picture of Christ as drawn both in the Old and New Testaments. 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. and regard with favor your burnt sacrifices! - But thou art he that took me out of the womb (comp. But Thou didst take me out of my mother's womb, Thou didst permit me to trust when on my mother's breasts. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/whe/psalms-22.html. Psalm 22:9, ESV: "Yet you are he who took me from the womb; you made me trust you at my mother’s breasts." 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. Selah. In acknowledging that he was taken from the womb by the hand of God, and that God had caused him to confide upon the breasts of his mother, the meaning is, that although it is by the operation of natural causes that infants come into the world, and are nourished with their mother’s milk, yet therein the wonderful providence of God brightly shines forth. The following passage from Luther is of a similar import: "Augustine, in the first book of his Confessions, finds great enjoyment and consolation in similar reflections, where he praises God with devout admiration for his creation and birth, and extols the Divine goodness in taking him up, and committing him to the care and attention of his mother. ... "Keptest me in safety." https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/bcc/psalms-22.html. Compare Isaiah 49:1-3. Abilene Christian University Press, Abilene, Texas, USA. In fact, Rashi explains verse 27 as referring: “To the time of redemption, to the days of the Messiah.” [Rashi’s commentary on Psalm 22:27] Thou hast delighted in me, for thou art He that took me out of the wombs-literally, 'Thou (art) my breaking forth from ( gochiy (Hebrew #1518)) the womb:' the effect being put for the author of it: thou are the author of my going forth from the womb. Job 10:8-11). And although he does not immediately endue babes with the knowledge of himself, yet he is said to give them confidence, because, by showing in fact that he takes care of their life, he in a manner allures them to himself; as it is said in another place, “He giveth to the beast his food, and to the young ravens which cry,” (Psalms 147:9.). the plain text of Psalm 22. "The Adam Clarke Commentary". 1874-1909. hope = trust, or confide. Psalm 22 begins with the most anguished cry in human history: “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” These are the words that Jesus took on His lips at the depth of His suffering on the cross. . Cross References Psalms 71:5 For You are my hope, O Lord GOD; You are my trust from my youth. BibliographyEllicott, Charles John. 1983-1999. c Faith that turns to God in spite of derision is the best answer to derision. His suffering was unique at that point as He offered Himself up for the sins of His people. Throughout the Old Testament there is never any mention made of a human father, or begetter, to the Messiah, but always only of His mother, or her who bare Him. 9 i But You are He who took Me out of the womb; You made Me trust while on My mother's breasts. But You are holy; You await the praises of Israel. BibliographyBarnes, Albert. 22:10 I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou [art] my God from my mother's f belly. 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