A great darkness shrouded the scene for three hours, and then, in His native Aramaic, Jesus cried in the words of the Psalm, " My God, My God, why has Thou forsaken Me?"
Although there is no psalm which can be shown with any probability to be pre-exilic, it is not impossible that there are some which date from as early a time as the age of Zerubbabel, by whose appointment national hopes were raised to so high a pitch.
Now it is no mere hypothesis that beginning 1 Enarratio in Psalm civ.
The presence of a late hand is also proved by the psalm in xxii.
Here was read the third psalm for the day.
