How to read this page

An Intertextuality Pair — one connection between two passages, shown as linked verse cards: the Later text and the Earlier text it quotes, alludes to or echoes. The Significance essay explains why the link matters and where it points in Christ.

Reference Type— how explicit the link is: Quotation, Allusion, or Echo
Connection Method(s)— how it carries meaning: e.g. Typology, Promise-Fulfillment, Analogy, Longitudinal Theme
Found via— where the connection was identified, e.g. the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge or an Anchor-Text Network

Graph View — tap the constellation icon in the top bar to see this page's connections as a web of light: gold points are passages, and the coloured threads are the connection types. Click any type in the graph's own legend to filter it in or out, and use the expand control for the full-screen night sky.

New to a term? The Glossary explains every abbreviation and term on the site in plain words.

Intertextuality Pair

Psalms 22:1 → Deuteronomy 31:8

Echo

Later text

Psalms 22:1BSB

For the choirmaster. To the tune of "The Doe of the Dawn." A Psalm of David. My God, my God, why have You forsaken me? Why are You so far from saving me, so far from my words of groaning?

Earlier text

Deuteronomy 31:8BSB

The LORD Himself goes before you; He will be with you. He will never leave you nor forsake you. Do not be afraid or discouraged."

Significance

Psalm 22:1's cry of forsakenness (עֲזַבְתָּנִי, azavtani, from עזב) stands in deliberate tension with Deuteronomy 31:8: "The LORD Himself goes before you; He will be with you. He will never leave you nor forsake you (לֹא יַרְפְּךָ וְלֹא יַעַזְבֶךָּ)." Moses's farewell promise specifically to Joshua assures divine presence and non-abandonment using the same root עזב. The psalmist's anguished "why?" presupposes this very promise — the question "why have You forsaken me?" only has force if God pledged never to do so. The contrast is the heart of the psalm's theological crisis: experienced absence in the face of promised presence.

Found via: Albert Barnes, Notes on the Bible (1834)
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): Contrast

▸ My God My God Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me

Linked Mentions 1

Anchor Texts 1

Psalm 22 — My God, My God, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me

Psalms 22:1 → Deuteronomy 31:8

Significance

Related Anchor-Text Networks