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Psalm 22:5

They cried to you, and were delivered. They trusted in you, and were not disappointed.

3But you are holy, you who inhabit the praises of Israel.
4Our fathers trusted in you. They trusted, and you delivered them.
5They cried to you, and were delivered. They trusted in you, and were not disappointed.
6But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised by the people.
7All those who see me mock me. They insult me with their lips. They shake their heads, saying,
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Notice

“They cried to you” recalls help given to earlier generations, a memory that can be hard to hold when your own cry still waits for an answer.

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Where else Scripture says this

11 passages readers most often link with this verse, and the thread each one shares with it.

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2 Chronicles 14:11Asa cried to the LORD his God, and said, “LORD, there is no one besides you to help, between the mighty and him who has no strength. Help us, LORD our God; for …Asa’s cry joins reliance on God with a plea for help, the same trust expressed in the fathers’ cries.
Psalm 25:2My God, I have trusted in you. Don’t let me be shamed. Don’t let my enemies triumph over me.Both passages link trust in God with freedom from shame, one recalling deliverance and the other asking for protection.
Romans 10:11For the Scripture says, “Whoever believes in him will not be disappointed.”Both texts join trust with the assurance of no disappointment, though the psalm looks back at the fathers’ experience.
Psalm 71:1In you, LORD, I take refuge. Never let me be disappointed.Psalm 71 asks for refuge without disappointment, while Psalm 22 remembers people whose trust in God was answered.
Isaiah 49:23Kings shall be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers. They will bow down to you with their faces to the earth, and lick the dust of your …Both passages connect dependence on God with freedom from disappointment, expressed through waiting in Isaiah and trust in the psalm.
Exodus 2:24God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.Both passages describe God responding to his people’s distress: Exodus names their groaning, and the psalm recalls their cries.
Romans 9:33even as it is written, “Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and a rock of offense; and no one who believes in him will be disappointed.”Both texts connect believing or trusting with freedom from disappointment; Romans also speaks of a stone laid in Zion.
1 Peter 2:6Because it is contained in Scripture, “Behold, I lay in Zion a chief cornerstone, chosen and precious. He who believes in him will not be disappointed.”Both texts speak of trust without disappointment, with Peter’s passage naming a chosen cornerstone and the psalm recalling earlier generations.
Judges 3:9When the children of Israel cried to the LORD, the LORD raised up a savior to the children of Israel, who saved them, even Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb’s …Judges recounts Israel crying to the LORD and being saved, the same pattern of crying and deliverance remembered in the psalm.
Isaiah 45:17Israel will be saved by the LORD with an everlasting salvation. You will not be disappointed nor confounded to ages everlasting.Both passages join God’s saving help with freedom from disappointment, while Isaiah speaks of everlasting salvation for Israel.
Judges 10:10–16The children of Israel cried to the LORD, saying, “We have sinned against you, even because we have forsaken our God, and have served the Baals.”Both passages describe people crying to the LORD; the supplied verse from Judges adds an explicit confession of forsaking God.
Where this verse fits

Waiting. feeling distant from God. answered prayer.

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One step

Something small to carry out of this verse

Name one past deliverance as you ask for help

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Encouragement

Remembering God’s help need not silence your present distress. The speaker recalls the fathers’ deliverance and then speaks of being despised; both belong within this prayer to God.

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Cross-reference data from OpenBible.info (CC BY). Scripture from the World English Bible (public domain). Arc diagram after Chris Harrison and Christoph Römhild (2007).