Lord, why castest thou off my soul?.... Here begins his prayer, which he determined to present early in the morning, and consists of expostulations, and a representation of his distressed case: this shows that he was under soul desertion, and which was what so greatly afflicted him; imagining that his soul was cast off by the Lord, and had no more share in his affection, and was no more under his care, and in his sight: such expostulations of the saints, the church, and people of God, in a like case, are elsewhere met with, Ps 43:3 and may be applied to Christ, when his soul was exceeding sorrowful unto death, and was made an offering for sin; and particularly when he was forsaken by his Father: the Targum is,"why hast thou forsaken my soul?'
'and rises the word "sabachtha", which Christ did when on the cross, Mt 27:46, the Septuagint version is,"wherefore, O Lord, dost thou reject my prayers?''"why hidest thou thy face from me?"