Psalms 22:1 · WEB
“My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning?”
— Psalms 22:1
Speaker
David
Era
Kingdom (~1000 BC)
Emotion
grieving
Type
psalm
Emotional genome
Comfort power
Quotability
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Standalone
PrayerProphecyabandonmentdesperate pleamessianic suffering
This verse is part of Psalms 22. The full chapter reveals the story around it.
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