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
Hear my prayer, O Lord (Purcell) voices combine in a towering dissonant tone cluster which desperately demands the final cadential resolution." The anthem has been recorded many times, including a 1995 release by the Collegium Vocale Gent, conducted by Philippe Herreweghe, and one from 2006 by the Choir of Clare College Cambridge, conducted by Timothy Brown. Hear my prayer, O Lord (Purcell) Hear my prayer, O Lord, Z. 15, is an eight-part choral anthem by the English composer Henry Purcell (1659–1695). The anthem is a setting of the first verse of Psalm 102 in the version of the Book of Common Prayer. Purcell composed it c.