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Psalm 22:2-4
New Catholic Bible
Psalm 22:2-4
New Catholic Bible
2 [a]My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
Why have you paid no heed to my call for help,
to my cries of anguish?
3 O my God, I cry by day, but you do not answer,
by night, but I am afforded no relief.[b]
4 Yet you are enthroned as the Holy One;
you are the praise of Israel.
Footnotes
- Psalm 22:2 Why? The question erupts from the heart of a righteous man. Yesterday he was still enjoying God’s favor as a son, but now he feels abandoned for no reason and afflicted with atrocious sufferings and made the laughingstock of free-thinkers. Has God changed?
- Psalm 22:3 But I am afforded no relief: the Hebrew text is obscure here. Some translate: “by night, and am not silent.”
