Psalms 22:12
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Many bulls have compassed me: There they stood, the strong legionaries of Rome, proud priests of Judea, and the princes of the people, all thirsting for his blood.
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Psalms 22:12-14
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round. They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion. I am poured out like water, Dissolved, separated, like drops of water poured out of a vessel.
Psalms 22:12
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round. There stood the chief priests and the rulers, and the Roman soldiery with their massive bulk and brute strength.
Psalms 22:12
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round. He was looking on the Scribes and Pharisees, and the strong Roman soldiery who made a ring round the cross.
Psalms 22:12-14
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Many bulls have compassed me; strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round. They gaped upon we with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion. I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: They were no doubt dislocated by the dreadful shaking and jarring that our Saviour must have suffered when they dashed the cross into the...
Psalms 22:12-14
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Many bulls haw compasssed me; strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round. They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion. I am poured out like water, All dissolved—nothing could hold together—quite spent and gone.
Psalms 22:13
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
They gaped upon me [with] their mouths,.... Either by way of derision and contempt, Job 16:10; or belching out blasphemy against him, or rather, with the greatest vehemency, crying out "Crucify him, crucify him", Lu 23:21; and this they did [as] a ravening and roaring lion, when it has got its prey and rejoices, Amos 3:4; and being in such hands,...
Psalms 22:13
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion. There was nothing but cruelty and spite and fury all round the louder heart of that lonely Sufferer. Ah, me! was there ever sorrow like unto his sorrow?
Psalms 22:13-14
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion. I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels. Can you not see your Saviour hanging on the accursed tree, — every particle of him as it were loosened from its fellow by the fever raging in his whole...
Psalms 22:14
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
I am poured out like water,.... This may refer to Christ's sweat in the garden, when through his agony or conflict with Satan, and his vehemency in prayer, and the pressure on his mind, in a view of his people's sins, and the wrath of God for, them, and the accursed death he was about to undergo on that account, sweat in great abundance came from...
Psalms 22:14
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And all my bones are out of joint my heart is like wax; “The very fountain of my strength is turned to weakness.”
Psalms 22:14-15
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
It is melted in the midst of my bowels. My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death. Fever had wrought upon him; the hanging in the midday sun, the excruciating pains in his hands and feet, the dragging weight of his body, the tearing of the nails, and the continually...
Psalms 22:14
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: This was caused by the rough dashing of the cross into the ground when they lifted it up, and plunged it into its place. Psa_22:14. My heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels. It was a living death, a deadly life. Christ’s very heart, which is the center of life, had...
Psalms 22:14
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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,” — Psa_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...
Psalms 22:14
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels. When the heart goes, everything goes, when the heart fails, and begins to melt, then it seems as if everything is loosening, and the man is in the anguish of death.
Psalms 22:14
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax: He felt the inward sinking fever brought on him by the wounds he had upon the cress. “My heart is like wax.”
Psalms 22:14-16
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
It is melted in the midst of my bowels. My strength is dried up like a potsherd: and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws: and thou hast brought me into the dust of death. For dogs have compassed me: There they are—the cruel multitude—thrusting out the tongue and hooting at him. “For dogs have compassed me.”
Psalms 22:15
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
My strength is dried up like a potsherd,.... The radical moisture of his body was dried up through his loss of blood and spirits, and through the violent fever upon him, brought on him by his being hurried from court to court; and which generally attends persons under a panic, in consternation and fear of danger and death, and at crucifixion; or...
Psalms 22:15
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death. The terrible death-thirst was upon him, through the fever generated by his wounds.
Psalms 22:15
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; Such was the intensity of his anguish that the fever within him turned his mouth into an oven, and his tongue was so dried up that it could scarcely stir. Psa_22:15. And thou hast brought me into the dust of death. As if his whole body were prepared to go back into its...