My God, I cry in the daytime, but you don’t answer; in the night season, and am not silent.

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  • WEB World English Bible

    My God, I cry in the daytime, but you don’t answer; in the night season, and am not silent.

  • KJV King James Version

    O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.

  • JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)

    (22-3) O my God, I call by day, but Thou answerest not; and at night, and there is no surcease for me.

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Cross-references (12)

Passages linked to Psalms 22:2 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.

  • Psalms 42:3 My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually ask me, “Where is your God?”
  • Luke 18:7 Won’t God avenge his chosen ones who are crying out to him day and night, and yet he exercises patience with them?
  • Psalms 55:16-17 As for me, I will call on God. Yahweh will save me. Evening, morning, and at noon, I will cry out in distress. He will hear my voice.
  • Psalms 88:1 Yahweh, the God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before you.
  • Luke 22:41-46 He was withdrawn from them about a stone’s throw, and he knelt down and prayed, saying, “Father, if you are willing, remove this cup from me. Nevertheless, not my will, but yours, be done.” An angel from heaven appeared to him, strengthening him. Being in agony he prayed more earnestly. His sweat became like great drops of blood falling down on the ground. When he rose up from his prayer, he came to the disciples, and found them sleeping because of grief, and said to them, “Why do you sleep? Rise and pray that you may not enter into temptation.”
  • Lamentations 3:8 Yes, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.
  • Lamentations 3:44 You have covered yourself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through.
  • Matthew 26:44 He left them again, went away, and prayed a third time, saying the same words.
  • Luke 6:12 In these days, he went out to the mountain to pray, and he continued all night in prayer to God.
  • 1 Thessalonians 3:10 night and day praying exceedingly that we may see your face, and may perfect that which is lacking in your faith?
  • 2 Timothy 1:3 I thank God, whom I serve as my forefathers did, with a pure conscience. How unceasing is my memory of you in my petitions, night and day
  • Psalms 80:4 Yahweh God of Armies, how long will you be angry against the prayer of your people?

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Explain this verse (15 sources)

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John Calvin 1540 · Public Domain 2. O my God! I cry in the day-time.…

2. O my God! I cry in the day-time. In this verse the Psalmist expresses the long continuance of his affliction, which increased his disquietude and weariness. It was a temptation even still more grievous, that his crying seemed only to be lost labor; for, as our only means of relief under our calamities is in calling upon God, if we derive no advantage from our prayers, what other remedy remains for us? David, therefore, complains that God is in a manner deaf to his prayers. When he says in the second clause, And there is no silence to me, the meaning is, that he experienced no comfort or solace, nothing which could impart tranquillity to his troubled mind. As long as affliction pressed upon him, his mind was so disquieted, that he was constrained to cry out. Here there is shown the constancy of faith, in that the long duration of calamities could neither overthrow it, nor interrupt its exercise. The true rule of praying is, therefore, this, that he who seems to have beaten the air to no purpose, or to have lost his labor in praying for a long time, should not, on that account, leave off, or desist from that duty. Meanwhile, there is this advantage which God in his fatherly kindness grants to his people, that if they have been disappointed at any time of their desires and expectations, they may make known to God their perplexities and distresses, and unburden them, as it were, into his bosom.

John Calvin's Commentaries (1540-1563) — public domain. Text from the Calvin Translation Society English edition (1840s-50s) via the Christian Classics Ethereal Library (ccel.org). Calvin's coverage is partial (roughly two-thirds of the Bible); uncommented books and verses are honest gaps, never fabricated. The 19th-century editor's footnotes and remarks are omitted so the notes are faithfully Calvin's own voice.

Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Or, I cease not.
John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Psa 22:2 O my God, I cry in the…
Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain i.e. I continue praying day and night without intermission.…
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain O my God, I cry in the daytime,.... In…
Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 2. I cry in the day-time, and in…
Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Psa 22:2. I cry in the day-time, &c. —…
Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain O my God, I cry in the daytime -…
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain The long distress is evinced by--
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 2. O my God—Still he holds to the endearing…
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 2. thou hearest not] R.V., thou answerest not.
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (2) And am not silent.—This misses the parallelism, which…
The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain O my God, I cry in the daytime, but…
Charles H. Spurgeon 1885 · Public Domain Ver. 2. O my God, I cry in the…
The Biblical Illustrator 1887 · Public Domain O my God, I cry in the daytime, but…

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