Discovery BoxPsalms 22:22-25 
Context22:22 I will declare your name to my countrymen! 1
In the middle of the assembly I will praise you!
22:23 You loyal followers of the Lord, 2 praise him!
All you descendants of Jacob, honor him!
All you descendants of Israel, stand in awe of him! 3
22:24 For he did not despise or detest the suffering 4 of the oppressed; 5
he did not ignore him; 6
when he cried out to him, he responded. 7
22:25 You are the reason I offer praise 8 in the great assembly;
I will fulfill my promises before the Lord’s loyal followers. 9
1 tn Or “brothers,” but here the term does not carry a literal familial sense. It refers to the psalmist’s fellow members of the Israelite covenant community (see v. 23).
2 tn Heb “[you] fearers of the
3 tn Heb “fear him.”
4 tn Or “affliction”; or “need.”
5 sn In this verse the psalmist refers to himself in the third person and characterizes himself as oppressed.
6 tn Heb “he did not hide his face from him.” For other uses of the idiom “hide the face” meaning “ignore,” see Pss 10:11; 13:1; 51:9. Sometimes the idiom carries the stronger idea of “reject” (see Pss 27:9; 88:14).
7 tn Heb “heard.”
8 tn Heb “from with you [is] my praise.”
9 tn Heb “my vows I will fulfill before those who fear him.” When asking the
