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Young's Literal Translation

Psalms 22:2

My God, I call by day, and Thou answerest not, And by night, and there is no silence to me.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Doubting;   Persecution;   Prayer;   The Topic Concordance - Deliverance;   Jesus Christ;   Suffering;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Night;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Psalms, the Book of;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Psalms, book of;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Aijeleth Shahar;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Season;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Aijeleth Hash-Shahar;   Atonement;   English Versions;   Greek Versions of Ot;   Psalms;   Sin;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Cedron;   Naphtali;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Messiah;   Psalms the book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Cry, Crying;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for January 26;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
My God, I cry by day, but you do not answer,by night, yet I have no rest.
Hebrew Names Version
My God, I cry in the daytime, but you don't answer; In the night season, and am not silent.
King James Version
O my God, I cry in the day time, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.
English Standard Version
O my God, I cry by day, but you do not answer, and by night, but I find no rest.
New Century Version
My God, I call to you during the day, but you do not answer. I call at night; I am not silent.
New English Translation
My God, I cry out during the day, but you do not answer, and during the night my prayers do not let up.
Amplified Bible
O my God, I call out by day, but You do not answer; And by night, but I find no rest nor quiet.
New American Standard Bible
My God, I cry out by day, but You do not answer; And by night, but I have no rest.
World English Bible
My God, I cry in the daytime, but you don't answer; In the night season, and am not silent.
Geneva Bible (1587)
O my God, I crie by day, but thou hearest not, and by night, but haue no audience.
Legacy Standard Bible
O my God, I call by day, but You do not answer;And by night, but I have no rest.
Berean Standard Bible
I cry out by day, O my God, but You do not answer, and by night, but I have no rest.
Contemporary English Version
I cry out day and night, but you don't answer, and I can never rest.
Complete Jewish Bible
My God! My God! Why have you abandoned me? Why so far from helping me, so far from my anguished cries?
Darby Translation
My God, I cry by day, and thou answerest not; and by night, and there is no rest for me:
Easy-to-Read Version
My God, I kept calling by day, and I was not silent at night. But you did not answer me.
George Lamsa Translation
O my God, I call thee in the daytime but thou answerest me not; and in the night season thou abidest not with me.
Good News Translation
During the day I call to you, my God, but you do not answer; I call at night, but get no rest.
Lexham English Bible
O my God, I call by day and you do not answer, and by night but I have no rest.
Literal Translation
O my God, I cry by day, but You do not answer; and in the night, and there is no silence to Me.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
O my God, I crie in the daye tyme, but thou hearest not: and in the night season also I take no rest.
American Standard Version
O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou answerest not; And in the night season, and am not silent.
Bible in Basic English
O my God, I make my cry in the day, and you give no answer; and in the night, and have no rest.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me, and art far from my help at the words of my cry?
King James Version (1611)
O my God, I crie in the day time, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
O my God I crye all the day tyme, and in the night season, and I ceasse not: but thou hearest not.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
O my God, I will cry to thee by day, but thou wilt not hear: and by night, and it shall not be accounted for folly to me.
English Revised Version
O my God, I cry in the day-time, but thou answerest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Mi God, Y schal crye bi dai, and thou schalt not here; and bi nyyt, and not to vnwisdom to me.
Update Bible Version
O my God, I cry in the daytime, but you don't answer; And in the night season, and am not silent.
Webster's Bible Translation
O my God, I cry in the day-time, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.
New King James Version
O My God, I cry in the daytime, but You do not hear; And in the night season, and am not silent.
New Living Translation
Every day I call to you, my God, but you do not answer. Every night I lift my voice, but I find no relief.
New Life Bible
O my God, I cry during the day, but You do not answer. I cry during the night, but I find no rest.
New Revised Standard
O my God, I cry by day, but you do not answer; and by night, but find no rest.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
My God! I keep crying - By day, and thou dost not answer, and, By night, and there is no rest for me.
Douay-Rheims Bible
(21-3) O my God, I shall cry by day, and thou wilt not hear: and by night, and it shall not be reputed as folly in me.
Revised Standard Version
O my God, I cry by day, but thou dost not answer; and by night, but find no rest.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
O my God, I cry by day, but You do not answer; And by night, but I have no rest.

Contextual Overview

1 To the Overseer, on `The Hind of the Morning.' -- A Psalm of David. My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me? Far from my salvation, The words of my roaring? 2 My God, I call by day, and Thou answerest not, And by night, and there is no silence to me. 3 And Thou [art] holy, Sitting -- the Praise of Israel. 4 In Thee did our fathers trust -- they trusted, And Thou dost deliver them. 5 Unto Thee they cried, and were delivered, In Thee they trusted, and were not ashamed. 6 And I [am] a worm, and no man, A reproach of man, and despised of the people. 7 All beholding me do mock at me, They make free with the lip -- shake the head, 8 `Roll unto Jehovah, He doth deliver him, He doth deliver him, for he delighted in him.' 9 For thou [art] He bringing me forth from the womb, Causing me to trust, On the breasts of my mother. 10 On Thee I have been cast from the womb, From the belly of my mother Thou [art] my God.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

I cry: Psalms 42:3, Psalms 55:16, Psalms 55:17, Psalms 88:1, Luke 18:7, 1 Thessalonians 3:10, 2 Timothy 1:3

but: Psalms 80:4, Lamentations 3:8, Lamentations 3:44

in the night: Luke 6:12, Luke 18:7, Luke 22:41-46

am not silent: Heb. there is no silence to me, Matthew 26:44

Reciprocal: 2 Chronicles 6:40 - my God Job 3:24 - my roarings Job 19:7 - I cry Job 30:17 - in the night season Job 30:20 - I cry Psalms 3:4 - I cried Psalms 5:3 - General Psalms 13:1 - wilt thou hide Psalms 16:7 - in the Psalms 22:24 - but Psalms 25:5 - on thee Psalms 28:1 - Unto Psalms 31:14 - Thou Psalms 38:8 - roared Psalms 42:9 - Why hast Psalms 69:3 - I am Psalms 102:7 - watch Song of Solomon 3:1 - night Song of Solomon 3:2 - I sought Song of Solomon 5:6 - I sought Habakkuk 1:2 - and thou wilt not save Matthew 26:36 - while Matthew 26:42 - the second Mark 4:38 - carest Mark 14:32 - while Luke 2:37 - but Luke 22:44 - being Acts 16:25 - at midnight

Cross-References

Genesis 17:19
and God saith, `Sarah thy wife is certainly bearing a son to thee, and thou hast called his name Isaac, and I have established My covenant with him, for a covenant age-during, to his seed after him.
Genesis 21:12
and God saith unto Abraham, `Let it not be wrong in thine eyes because of the youth, and because of thy handmaid: all that Sarah saith unto thee -- hearken to her voice, for in Isaac is a seed called to thee.
Genesis 22:9
And they come in unto the place of which God hath spoken to him, and there Abraham buildeth the altar, and arrangeth the wood, and bindeth Isaac his son, and placeth him upon the altar above the wood;
Genesis 22:10
and Abraham putteth forth his hand, and taketh the knife -- to slaughter his son.
Genesis 22:12
and He saith, `Put not forth thine hand unto the youth, nor do anything to him, for now I have known that thou art fearing God, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only one, from Me.'
Genesis 22:16
and saith, `By Myself I have sworn -- the affirmation of Jehovah -- that because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only one --
Judges 11:31
then it hath been, that which at all cometh out from the doors of my house to meet me in my turning back in peace from the Bene-Ammon -- it hath been to Jehovah, or I have offered up for it -- a burnt-offering.'
Judges 11:39
and it cometh to pass at the end of two months that she turneth back unto her father, and he doth to her his vow which he hath vowed, and she knew not a man; and it is a statute in Israel:
2 Kings 3:27
and he taketh his son, the first-born who reigneth in his stead, and causeth him to ascend -- a burnt-offering on the wall, and there is great wrath against Israel, and they journey from off him, and turn back to the land.
2 Chronicles 3:1
And Solomon beginneth to build the house of Jehovah, in Jerusalem, in the mount of Moriah, where He appeared to David his father, in the place that David had prepared, in the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

O my God, I cry in the daytime,.... In the time of his suffering on the cross, which was in the daytime:

but thou hearest me not; and yet he was always heard, John 11:41; though he was not saved from dying, yet he was quickly delivered from the power of death, and so was heard in that he feared, Hebrews 5:7;

and in the night season: in the night in which he was in the garden, sorrowing and praying, the night in which he was betrayed and was apprehended; and though the natural desires of his human soul were not heard and answered, that the cup might pass from him, yet his prayer in submission to the will of God was: moreover, the daytime and night season may design the incessant and continual prayer of Christ; he prayed always, night and day:

and am not silent; but continue to pray, though as yet seemingly not heard and answered; or there is "no silence to me" w; that is, no rest from sorrow and pain; or "no likeness to me" x, there are none like me, no sorrow like my sorrow, as in Lamentations 1:12.

w לא דמיה לי "non est silentium mihi", Pagninus, Montanus, Junius Tremellius "intermissio", Cocceius; "quies", Gejerus; "cessatio, quies, aut silentium", Michaelis. x "Non est mihi similitudo", Gussetius, p. 193.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

O my God, I cry in the daytime - This, in connection with what is said at the close of the verse, “and in the night-season,” means that his cry was incessant or constant. See the notes at Psalms 1:2. The whole expression denotes that his prayer or cry was continuous, but that it was not heard. As applicable to the Redeemer it refers not merely to the moment when he uttered the cry as stated in Psalms 22:1, but to the continuous sufferings which he endured as if forsaken by God and men. His life in general was of that description. The whole series of sorrows and trials through which he passed was as if he were forsaken by God; as if he uttered a long continuous cry, day and night, and was not heard.

But thou hearest not - Thou dost not “answer” me. It is as if my prayers were not heard. God “hears” every cry; but the answer to a prayer is sometimes withheld or delayed, as if he did not hear the voice of the suppliant. Compare the notes at Daniel 10:12-13. So it was with the Redeemer. He was permitted to suffer without being rescued by divine power, as if his prayers had not been heard. God seemed to disregard his supplications.

And in the night-season - As explained above, this means “constantly.” It was literally true, however, that the Redeemer’s most intense and earnest prayer was uttered in the night-season, in the garden of Gethsemane.

And am not silent - Margin, “there is no silence to me.” Hebrew: “There is not silence to me.” The idea is, that he prayed or cried incessantly. He was never silent. All this denotes intense and continuous supplication, supplication that came from the deepest anguish of the soul, but which was unheard and unanswered. If Christ experienced this, who may not?

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 22:2. I cry in the day-time, and in the night-season — This seems to be David's own experience; and the words seem to refer to his own case alone. Though I am not heard, and thou appearest to forget or abandon me; yet I continue to cry both day and night after thy salvation.


 
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