Keil & Delitzsch Commentary on the Old Testament · Psalms Capitolo 22

(Heb.: 22:25) This tristich is the evangel itself. The materia laudis is introduced by כּי . ענוּת (principal form ענוּת ) bending, bowing down, affliction, from ענה , the proper word to denote the Passion. For in Isaiah, Isaiah 53:4, Isaiah 53:7, the Servant of God is also said to be מענּה and נענה , and Zechariah, Zechariah 9:9, also introduces Him as עני and נושׁע . The lxx, Vulgate, and Targum erroneously render it “cry.” ענה does not mean to cry, but to answer, ἀμείβεσθαι ; here, however, as the stem-word of ענות , it means to be bent. From the שׁקּץ (to regard as an abhorrence), which alternates with בּזה , we see that the sufferer felt the wrath of God, but this has changed into a love that sends help; God did not long keep His countenance hidden, He hearkened to him, for his prayer was well-pleasing to Him. שׁמע is not the verbal adjective, but, since we have the definite fact of the rescue before us, it is a pausal form for שׁמע , as in Psalms 34:7, Psalms 34:18; Jeremiah 36:13.

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