Psalms 22:16

Psalms 22:16. For dogs have compassed me:

The many, the vulgar multitude, like a pack of hounds, crowded around the Saviour on the cross.

Psalms 22:16. The assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.

David could never say this of himself; no one else but our Lord Jesus Christ could talk after this wondrous fashion. Yet this Psalm was written hundreds of years before Christ came here among men; and the Jews treasured it up, little understanding that it described their Messiah and ours, and described him literally, too.