אֱֽלֹהַ֗י אֶקְרָ֣א י֭וֹמָם וְלֹ֣א תַעֲנֶ֑ה וְ֝לַ֗יְלָה וְֽלֹא דֽוּמִיָּ֥ה לִֽי
My God, I cry in the daytime, but you don't answer; In the night season, and am not silent.
World English Bible · Public Domain
My God, I cry in the daytime, but you don't answer; In the night season, and am not silent.
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My God, I cry in the daytime, but you don't answer; In the night season, and am not silent.
O my God, I cry in the day time, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.
My God, I call by day, but you do not answer, and the night, and there is no silence for me.
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My God, I cry in the daytime, but you don't answer; In the night season, and am not silent.
I cry out by day, O my God, but You do not answer, and by night, but I have no rest.
I cry out by day, O my God, but You do not answer, and by night, but I have no rest.
O my God, I cry in the day time, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.
O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou answerest not; And in the night season, and am not silent.
O my God, I cry in the day-time, but thou answerest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.
O my God, I crie by day, but thou hearest not, and by night, but haue no audience.
O God my God, look upon me: why hast thou forsaken me? Far from my salvation are the words of my sins.
My God, I call by day, and Thou answerest not, And by night, and there is no silence to me.
My God, I call by day, and You do not answer, || And by night, and am not silent.
My God, I cry out in the daytime, but you do not answer, and at night I am not silent!
My God, I call by day, but you do not answer, and the night, and there is no silence for me.
My God, I cry by day, and thou answerest not; and by night, and there is no rest for me:
My God, I cry in the daytime, but you don’t answer; in the night season, and am not silent.
\\22:1\\To the chief Musician upon Aijeleth Shahar, A Psalm of David. My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?
My God, every day I cry out to you, but you don't answer; at night too, but I get no rest.
O my God, I make my cry in the day, and you give no answer; and in the night, and have no rest.
(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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Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is דֽוּמִיָּ֥ה silence H1747 — appearing just 4 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
First appearance in Scripture
This word makes its first canonical appearance in the Hebrew Bible here:
Shared distinctive vocabulary
דֽוּמִיָּ֥ה silence H1747 occurs in 4 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
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Verb forms
Repetition
A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 19 words from the Hebrew and 28 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.
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Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.
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You’re reading Greek Psalm 21 (Hebrew Psalm 22). The Septuagint counts the superscription, so verse numbers can differ from the Hebrew — chapter-level alignment, not verse-by-verse. Numbering follows Rahlfs.
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אֱֽלֹהַ֗י אֶקְרָ֣א י֭וֹמָם וְלֹ֣א תַעֲנֶ֑ה וְ֝לַ֗יְלָה וְֽלֹא דֽוּמִיָּ֥ה לִֽי
My God, I cry in the daytime, but you don't answer; In the night season, and am not silent.
World English Bible · Public Domain
ὁ θεός ὁ θεός ἐγώ προςἔχω ἐγώ ἵνα τίς ἐν καταλείπω ἐγώ μακράν ἀπό ὁ σωτηρία ἐγώ ὁ λόγος ὁ παράπτωμα ἐγώ
O my God, I will cry to you by day, but you will not hear: and by night, and it shall not be accounted for folly to me.
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
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Psalms, in the Wisdom, opens this verse with 9 words (7 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is dûwmîyâh (“silence”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on Psalms 22:2 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.
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Trapp's Complete Commentary
John Trapp
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Biblical Illustrator
Joseph S. Exell
The Biblical Illustrator, edited by Joseph S. Exell (c. 1880s–1900s) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Treasury of David
Charles H. Spurgeon
Charles H. Spurgeon's The Treasury of David (1869–1885) — public domain. Psalms only. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
Joseph Benson's Commentary
Joseph Benson's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1811–1818) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
J. A. Alexander on Psalms
Joseph Addison Alexander
Joseph Addison Alexander, The Psalms Translated and Explained (1850) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Geneva Bible (1599)
Geneva Bible translators
Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain. Text via Bolls.life.
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown — Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible (1810–1826) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
John Calvin's Commentaries
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.
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers
A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
John Gill's Exposition
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible (1834–1885) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
Matthew Poole's English Annotations
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
Whedon's Commentary on the Bible
Daniel D. Whedon
Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Pulpit Commentary
The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Rashi
Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)
Rashi on the Tanakh — English translations: “The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg” (CC BY 4.0); “Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silbermann, 1929-1934” (public domain); “The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J” (CC BY 4.0); and “The Book of Joshua, Metsudah Publications, 1997” (CC BY 4.0). Text via Sefaria.
Radak
Rabbi David Kimhi (Radak)
Radak on the Tanakh — English translations: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “Eliyahu Munk, HaChut Hameshulash” (CC BY 4.0); “Rabbi Mike Feuer, Jerusalem Anthology” (CC BY 4.0); and “R. David Kimhi on the first book of Psalms, Translated by R.G. Finch, London, 1919” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.