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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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. Psa_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...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: The hind of the morning is now surrounded by the dogs. He cannot escape.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They pierced my hands and my feet. I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me. Horrible, to the tender, modest soul of Jesus, were those vile stares of the ribald multitude as they gazed upon him.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
I may tell all my bones,.... For what with the stretching out of his body on the cross, when it was fastened to it as it lay on the ground, and with the jolt of the cross when, being reared up, it was fixed in the ground, and with the weight of the body hanging upon it, all his bones were disjointed and started out; so that, could he have seen...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I may tell all my bones: Jesus could look down upon his own emaciated person as he hung there naked upon the cross. Psa_22:17. They look and stare upon me. Their cruel inquisitive gazing galled his delicate sensitive nature.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me. They stood mocking at his nakedness, jesting at his emaciated form.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me. He is emaciated through his fasting and all the agony he has endured, and his bones seem to break through his skin by reason of the cruel scourging to which he had been subjected.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I may tell all my bones: He is so emaciated that, as he looks down upon his body, he says, “I may tell all my bones.” Psa_22:17. They look and stare upon me. The delicate modesty of the Saviour is shocked. They have stripped him, and hung him up, and there they stand and gloat their cruel eyes upon his matchless body: “They look and stare upon me.”
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
They part my garments among them,.... Such as died the death of the cross were crucified naked (h), and their clothes were the perquisites of the executioners; there were four soldiers concerned in the crucifixion of Christ, and these parted his garments into four parts, and everyone took his part; and cast lots on my vesture; which was a seamless...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture. But be not thou far from me, O LORD: O my strength, haste thee to help me. Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog. Save me from the lion’s mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns. He had been heard in past years, and he pleads for...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture. But be thou not far from me, O LORD: That is still the very center of our Saviour’s suffering, so he turns his pleading in that direction. He does not ask that the dogs may be called off, nor that the bulls may be driven away; but his cry is, “Be not thou far from me, O Lord.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture. But be not thou far from me, O LORD: O my strength, — That is, El, — the name he gave to God in the first verse: “O my strong One,” —
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture. Now he returns to prayer: —
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture. How accurate is this description even to the least detail! How wondrously was this poet-prophet inspired when he thus drew the portrait of the crucified Christ! “They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture. But be not thou far from me, O LORD: O my strength, haste thee to help me. Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog. Save me .from the lion’s mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns. I will declare thy name unto my brethren: in the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
But be not thou far from me, O Lord,.... [See comments on Psalms 22:11]; O my strength; Christ as God is the mighty God, the Almighty; as Mediator, he is the strength of his people; but, as man, God is his strength; he is the man of his right hand, whom he has made strong for himself, and whom he has promised his arm shall strengthen, Psalms...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O my strength, haste thee to help me. Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog. Save me from the lion’s mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns. He recollects former days wherein God had helped him, and he prays that the Lord will help him still, and bring him safely through this terrible trial, as...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Haste thee to help me. Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog. Save me from the lion’s mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns. Did you notice that flash of light gleaming through the darkness, “Thou hast heard me?” Perhaps it was at that moment that the sun again shone forth; at any rate, it is...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But be not thou far from me, O LORD: O my strength, haste thee to help me. Deliver my soul, from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog. Save me from the lion’s mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns. He had been delivered before, and he expected deliverance again, and he had it; but he had to pass through the iron...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But be not thou far from me, O LORD: O my strength, haste thee to help me. Deliver my soul from the sword: my darling from the power of the dog. Save me from the lion’s mouth: for thou hast heard me from the home of the unicorns. So far, you see, the Psalm describes the sufferings of our Divine Redeemer and then it changes. The light of the sun...