Logos Bible Study

Psalm 22:1

The NET BibleOther versions

English

Arabic

Czech

French

German

Hebrew

Hungarian

Italian

Korean

Latin

Portuguese

Russian

Simplified Chinese

Spanish

Traditional Chinese

22:1My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?1

I groan in prayer, but help seems far away.2

Read in Logos

Footnotes

  1. 1 From the psalmist’s perspective it seems that God has abandoned him, for he fails to answer his cry for help (vv. 1b–2).
  2. 2 Heb “far from my deliverance [are] the words of my groaning.” The Hebrew noun שְׁאָגָה (shé’agah) and its related verb שָׁאַג (sha’ag) are sometimes used of a lion’s roar, but they can also describe human groaning (see Job 3:24 and Pss 32:3 and 38:8.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?

Why are you so far from saving me, from the words of my groaning?

NIVNew International Version (2011)

My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?

Why are you so far from saving me,

so far from my cries of anguish?

CSBChristian Standard Bible

My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?

Why are you so far from my deliverance

and from my words of groaning?

NLTNew Living Translation

My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?

Why are you so far away when I groan for help?

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

My God, my God why have you forsaken me?

Why are you far from helping me, far from the words of my groaning?

KJV 1900King James Version

My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

Why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?