The Bible Study Podcast, episode 349. Today, the Bible Study podcast begins a study of Psalms with Psalm 22.

Welcome to the Bible Study podcast. I'm your host, Chris Christensen. I mentioned last week that I thought we would start a

study of the book of Psalms. We're not going to do every psalm, but we're going to do some highlights.

And I want to start with some of the Psalms of David, including today, Psalm 22. If, by the way,

you have a favorite Psalm that you would like us to cover on a future episode, let me know.

And we will try and get to that.

Psalm 22 is not a happy Psalm. Psalm 22 is the Psalm that we believe that Jesus was quoting as he

hung on the cross. As Jesus hung there, he said, my God, my God, why have you forsaken me?

And that is the opening line of this Psalm as we will see in a minute.

And this is a Psalm of David. Psalm 22. My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from

saving me? So far from my cries of anguish. My God, I cry out by day, but you do not answer.

By night, but I find no rest. Yet you are enthroned as the

holy one. You are the one Israel praises. In you our ancestors put their trust. They trusted and you

delivered them. To you they cried out and were saved. In you they trusted and were not put to shame.

There's a certain rhythm in the Psalms, and especially

in this Psalm, Psalm 22, which I wanted to examine. It's one of the reasons why I pulled this one out.

As you can see, David starts this in a fit of despair. Remember that David spent a fair amount of

his time about 15 years from the time that he is anointed as king

till the time he becomes king running from his life from his king and his father-in-law, King Saul.

And then later on in his life, he spent some time running from his son, Absalom.

And so David has some difficult times. And my guess is this is probably in that first time when he is running from Saul,

but I don't know that for sure.

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