Psalms 22:14

Psalms 22:14. I am poured out like water,-

He feels as if he were being dissolved; there is such a sense of faintness upon him that every muscle, every ligature, seems to be turning to liquid, and he cries, "I am poured out like water," -

Psalms 22:14. And all my bones are out of joint:

The jarring of the cross when they dashed it into its place had dislocated our blessed Redeemer’s bones. What must his pain have been!

Psalms 22:14. My heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.

Now the terrible death-faintness comes over him. "The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity;" but when his heart melts, how can he bear the strain any longer? Yet our Saviour speaks of himself again: -