Psalms 22:1-2

Psalms 22:1-2

[1] [[To the chief Musician  upon Aijeleth  Shahar,  A Psalm  of David.]]  My God,  why hast thou forsaken  me? why art thou so far  from helping  me, and from the words  of my roaring?  [2] O my God,  I cry  in the daytime,  but thou hearest  not; and in the night season,  and am not silent. 

What does Psalms 22:1-2 Mean?

Contextual Meaning

Again David felt frustrated by God"s lack of response to his cries (cf. Psalm 13:1-4). God would not answer David regardless of when he prayed. The Lord Jesus quoted David"s words as He hung on the cross ( Matthew 27:46; Mark 15:34).
"There are two ways in which we may understand Jesus" use of these words, either as fuller sense (sensus plenior) or typology.... Franz Delitzsch well illustrates what we mean by fuller sense in his comment on Psalm 22 : "... David descends, with his complaint, into a depth that lies beyond the depth of his affliction, and rises, with his hopes, to a height that lies far beyond the height of the reward of his affliction" [1] The fuller meaning can be understood in the comprehensive sense as well. That Isaiah , the suffering on this occasion was insufficient to qualify for these gigantic terms of the text, so we understand David as summing up the suffering of his entire life.... In comparison to the fuller sense, the typological interpretation sees Jesus as the type of sufferer in Psalm 22 , and the psalmist becomes the model. James Mays"s interpretation of this psalm belongs in this category, although he prefers to see Jesus as setting himself in its paradigm: "He joins the multitudinous company of the afflicted and becomes one with them in their suffering." [2] When the fuller sense method is applied, it recognizes that a future fulfillment is built into the language and meaning of the text, whereas typology looks back to a person or event as representative of a future event or person. It may or may not be a prophetic element built into the text." [3]