Psalms 22:16

Psalms 22:16. And thou hast brought me into the dust of death.

He felt as if his very frame was all turning to the dust of which the body is made. So complete is the breaking of the whole manhood when a strong fever is upon one.

Psalms 22:16. For dogs have compassed me:

There was the ribald crowd; not this time the bulls of Bashan, the great ones, but the mob, the masses of the common people hooting at him: "Dogs have compassed me."

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

Can anybody else be speaking here but Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of David, the King of the Jews? Now is this bind of the morning hunted till the dogs and the hunters have made a circle round him: "The assembly of the wicked have inclosed me." Here is Christ’s crucifixion beyond all doubt: "They pierced my hands and my feet."