Psalm 22 by God is not the end. Rather, in both cases there is the sudden and abrupt rescue of the petitioner by God (in the New Testament through Jesus' resurrection.) The usual division of the psalm into an action part (v. 2-22) and a praise or thanksgiving part (v. 23-32), therefore, is interpreted by some (by Martin Luther, among others) to anticipate the Crucifixion and the Resurrection. Psalm 22 Psalm 22 is the 22nd psalm of the Book of Psalms, generally known in English by its first verse, in the King James Version, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken
Psalm 143 currently the fourth Thursday prayed at Lauds in the Liturgy of the Hours and every Tuesday night at compline. This psalm is a prayer request. The Psalmist's cry is divided into four stages: the psalmist is sorry and is not better than another; it is at an impasse; but he sees that the Lord has saved other men; so he puts his trust in the Lord. The psalm evokes the problem of a prayer request from the sinner, the one that persecutes the enemy. The solid base that helps the psalmist hope in the LORD is his reminiscence of the