“O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.”
This verse develops the psalm's theological themes of covenant relationship, divine justice, moral responsibility, and the dynamics of faith. It articulates the speaker's experience and invites engagement with fundamental questions about God's character, providence, and the appropriate human response to divine revelation in creation, law, and history. The verse situates particular human experience within the larger framework of God's redemptive purposes and universal sovereignty.
Church Fathers on Psalms 22:2
To the end, for the taking up of the morning, a psalm of David. 1. “To the end,” for His own resurrection, the Lord Jesus Christ Himself speaks. John 20:1-17 For in the morning on the first day of the week was His resurrection, whereby He was taken up, into eternal life, “Over whom death shall have no more dominion.” Romans 6:9 Now what follows is spoken in the person of The Crucified. For from the head of this Psalm are the words, which He cried out, while hanging on the…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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