Psalms 88:3-9

It is impossible for a child of God, one should think, to have any doubts as to whom these expressions peculiarly and principally belong. To whom can they so properly belong, as to the blessed Jesus? Who that reads of his soul-agony in the garden, and his cries on the cross, can fail to behold the striking application? Who that recollects Christ bearing our sins in his own body on the tree, can need to be told, that then the divine wrath lay hard upon him for our sins, and all the billows and waves of God's displeasure at sin were poured out upon him? And who that recollects the removal of Christ's disciples from him in Gethsemane, their desertion of him in the hour of danger, and the offense his cross was unto them all, before the Holy Ghost had descended upon them after Christ's resurrection, can require any farther evidence as to when the whole points, but to Jesus? Yes, thou Lamb of God, it is thou of whom the prophet speaks, and not of any other man. Oh, may my soul delight to put away all acquaintance far from me, that I may often follow thee, in silent and sacred meditation, through the hallowed walks of Gethsemane!