‘For dogs have surrounded Me. A company of evildoers have enclosed Me. They pierced my hands and my feet.'
But His trials continued. Having obtained that they wanted, His opponents were now gathered round Him like a pack of snarling dogs, and He felt enclosed by the soldiers of Rome who had driven nails through His hands and feet. But the ones who were really responsible for the nails were the ones who watched and sneered, and you and I.
Verse Psalms 22:16. _FOR DOGS HAVE COMPASSED ME_] This may refer to the _Gentiles_, the Roman soldiers, and others by whom our Lord was surrounded in his trial, and at his cross. _THEY PIERCED MY HA...
FOR DOGS HAVE COMPASSED ME - Men who resemble dogs; harsh, snarling, fierce, ferocious. See Philippians 3:2, note; and Revelation 22:15, note. No one can doubt that this is applicable to the Redeemer....
Psalms 22 The Sufferings of Christ and the Glory That Follows _ 1. The suffering (Psalms 22:1)_ 2. The glory (Psalms 22:22) P
XXII. This Ps. (p. 372) consists of two parts. In Psalms 22:1 a godly man in deep and manifold distress complains that the God of his fathers, the God who has been with him from the beginning, has des...
DOGS. Figure of speech _Hypocatastasis._ App-6. "Enemies" being implied (not expressed). ASSEMBLY. congregation: in civic aspect. WICKED. breakers up. Hebrew. _ra'a_. App-44. THEY PIERCED, &C.. "As....
The Psalmist pleads for help with intenser earnestness. The virulence of his foes increases. Strength and endurance are exhausted....
The effects of anxiety and persecution. Vital strength and courage fail; his frame is racked and tortured; he is reduced to a skeleton....
A fresh description of his foes. An unclean, cowardly, worrying rabble, like the troops of hungry and half-savage dogs with which every oriental city and village still abounds (Tristram, _Nat. Hist_....
DISCOURSE: 527 THE SUFFERINGS OF CHRIST Psalms 22:11. Be not far from me, for trouble is near; for there is none to help. Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round. They...
FOR DOGS HAVE COMPASSED ME— The idea here is, of a pack of hounds encompassing a distressed _deer,_ which they have hunted down. See the remarks on the title. Hereby are represented the Roman soldiers...
PSALMS 22 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE The Voice of a Forsaken SuffererLoudly Lamenting his Lot, Minutely Describing his Pain and Shame, without Reproaching God or Accusing Himselfis Suddenly Silenced (in Deat...
_FOR DOGS HAVE COMPASSED ME: THE ASSEMBLY OF THE WICKED HAVE INCLOSED ME: THEY PIERCED MY HANDS AND MY FEET._ Dogs have compassed me. "Dogs" are peculiarly savage in the East; they prowl about the st...
DOGS] which haunt Eastern towns and villages in savage and cowardly packs—fit emblems of the Psalmist's fierce and yet contemptible foes. THEY PIERCED MY HANDS AND MY FEET] The reference is still to t...
The Ps. has two sections, in the first of which (Psalms 22:1) the writer earnestly seeks God's help in a time of extreme trouble, while in the second (Psalms 22:22) he breaks into a song of thanksgivi...
Psalms 1:41 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ Words in boxes are from the Bible. The notes explain some of the words with a *star by them. Tap the * before a word to show an explanation. The translated Bible tex...
DOGS. — Literally, _barkers._ (For the wild scavenger dogs of the East, comp. 1 Kings 12:19, &c) Symmachus and Theodotion render, “hunting dogs.” THE ASSEMBLY OF THE WICKED denotes the factious natur...
_[Psalms 22:17]_ כִּ֥י סְבָב֗וּנִי כְּלָ֫בִ֥ים עֲדַ֣ת מְ֭רֵעִים...
Psalms 22:1 WHO is the sufferer whose wail is the very voice of desolation and despair, and who yet dares to believe that the tale of his sorrow will be a gospel for the world? The usual answers are g...
THE TESTIMONY OF THE DELIVERED Psalms 22:16 In the middle of Psalms 22:21 there is a remarkable change from the plaintive to the triumphant: supplication and entreaty break out into exultation; hope...
Whatever may have been the local conditions creating this psalm, it has become so perfectly and properly associated with the one Son of God that it is almost impossible to read it in any other way. Th...
For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they (k) pierced my hands and my feet. (k) Thus David complained as though he were nailed by his enemies in both hands and fee...
It would be a loss of time to continually remark, how impossible it is to preserve any kind of consistency in those scriptures, by keeping up the recollection of David, King of Israel, as being at all...
Psalms 22 _ Proper Psalm for Good Friday_ (_Morning_). PSALMS 22, 23 = _ Day 4_ (_Evening_)....
16._They have pierced my hands and my feet. _The original word, which we have translated _they have pierced, _is כארי, _caari, _which literally rendered is, _like a lion. _As all the Hebrew Bibles at...
Here the sufferings of Christ have another and deeper character. We have before us that great work which is the foundation of all the blessing developed in the other psalms, and of every blessing and...
FOR DOGS HAVE COMPASSED ME,.... By whom are meant wicked men, as the following clause shows; and so the Chaldee paraphrase renders it, "the wicked who are like to many dogs"; and to these such are oft...
For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet. Ver. 16. _For dogs have compassed me_] That is, men of mean rank; opposed to bulls and lion...
_Dogs have compassed me_ So he calls his enemies, or rather the enemies of Christ, for their insatiable greediness, and implacable fierceness against him. The idea seems to be taken from a number of d...
THE MESSIAH IN HIS GREAT PASSION. A Prophecy of the Messiah's Suffering. To the chief musician upon Aijeleth Shahar, that is, "Of the hind of the dawn," a psalm of David. The words "Of the hind of th...
For dogs have compassed Me, as the Messiah, in resuming His complaint, cries out; THE ASSEMBLY OF THE WICKED HAVE ENCLOSED ME; THEY PIERCED MY HANDS AND MY FEET, digging through them with the nails wh...
11-21 In these verses we have Christ suffering, and Christ praying; by which we are directed to look for crosses, and to look up to God under them. The very manner of Christ's death is described, tho...
He calls his enemies DOGS for their vileness and filthiness, for their insatiable greediness and implacable fury and fierceness against him. He explains what he means by _dogs_, even wicked men, who a...
Psalms 22:16 dogs H3611 surrounded H5437 (H8804) congregation H5712 wicked H7489 (H8688) enclosed H5362 (H8689) pie
You will not need any comment on this Psalm if, while we read it, you see Christ on the cross, and you think that you hear him uttering these sacred words. This Psalm is dedicated» to the Chief Musici...
This Psalm is a sort of window, through which we can look into the heart of our crucified Saviour. We see all the external part of the crucifixion through the four windows of the Gospels; but this 22...
This Psalm is headed, «To the chief Musician upon Aijeleth Shahar,» or, as the margin renders it, «the hind of the morning,» «A Psalm of David,» It begins in the very depths of the Master's sorrow, wh...
This Psalm so sweetly and so accurately pictures the inward griefs of our Divine Saviour that it might have been written after the crucifixion rather than so many hundreds of years before it. I call y...
Stand and look up at Christ upon the cross, and look upon these words, as his. He himself is the best exposition of this wondrous psalm. Psalms 22:1. _My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why a...
This marvellous Psalm is a wonderful prophecy, which might seem as if it had been composed after the suffering of our Lord; yet it was written many hundreds of years before his incarnation and death....
CONTENTS: David in great perplexity cries for help. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: Trouble and perplexity drive us to earnest prayer and earnest prayer drives away trouble and perplexity. To fa...
Psalms 22:1. _My God, my God._ The LXX, Ο Θεος ο Θεος μου. The Chaldaic is like the English. The Hebrew forms the superlative degree by repetition. Example: “The heaven, and the heaven of heavens cann...
_They pierced my hands and my feet._ OUR LORD’S PASSION The great mystery of the passion of our Lord is one which in all its fulness the human mind cannot comprehend. In what manner His sufferings pu...
_My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me?_ THE PROPHETIC IMAGE OF THE PRINCE OF SUFFERERS Who is the sufferer whose wail is the very voice of desolation and despair, and who yet dares to believe th...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 22:1. This psalm appears to be an individual lament. The singer has been attacked by unscrupulous people and mocked by those who should feel sympathy. Nevertheless, he looks...
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 22:12 The singer’s enemies are bent on evil like BULLS (v. Psalms 22:12), a LION (v....
INTRODUCTION “The subject of this psalm is the deliverance of a righteous sufferer from his enemies, and the effect of this deliverance on others. It is so framed as to be applied without violence to...
EXPOSITION THERE is no psalm which has raised so much controversy as this. Admitted to be Messianic by the early Hebrew commentators, it is by some understood wholly of David; by others, applied to th...
Psa 22:1-31 is one of those prophetic psalms which stands out probably among all of the Messianic psalms. This psalm is again a psalm of David, and it is a very graphic description of death by crucifi...
Jeremiah 12:6; John 19:23; John 19:37; John 20:25; John 20:27;...
Dogs — So he calls his enemies for their insatiable greediness, and implacable fierceness against him. Pierced — These words cannot with any probability be applied to David, but were properly and lite...