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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...
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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....
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Psalms 22
The Sufferings of Christ and the Glory That Follows
_ 1. The suffering (Psalms 22:1)_
2. The glory (Psalms 22:22)
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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...
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The Psalmist pleads for help with intenser earnestness. The virulence
of his foes increases. Strength and endurance are exhausted....
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The effects of anxiety and persecution. Vital strength and courage
fail; his frame is racked and tortured; he is reduced to a skeleton....
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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_....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_[Psalms 22:17]_ כִּ֥י סְבָב֗וּנִי
כְּלָ֫בִ֥ים עֲדַ֣ת מְ֭רֵעִים...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Psalms 22
_ Proper Psalm for Good Friday_ (_Morning_).
PSALMS 22, 23 = _ Day 4_ (_Evening_)....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Psalms 22:16 dogs H3611 surrounded H5437 (H8804) congregation H5712
wicked H7489 (H8688) enclosed H5362 (H8689) pie
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‘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...
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THE SUFFERER'S PRAYER FOR DELIVERANCE AND PROVIDES A DESCRIPTION OF
HIS PREDICAMENT (PSALMS 22:11).
That we are to see some of these descriptions as figurative comes out
in Psalms 22:21 where the psal...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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_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...
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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...
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PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 22:12 The singer’s enemies are bent on evil
like BULLS (v. Psalms 22:12), a LION (v....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Jeremiah 12:6; John 19:23; John 19:37; John 20:25; John 20:27;...
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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...