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John Gill
INTRODUCTION TO Psalms 22 To the chief Musician upon Aijeleth Shahar, a Psalm of David. The only thing observable in the title of this psalm is the sense of the words "Aijeleth Shahar", left untranslated; which, according to some of the Jewish (g) interpreters, is the name of a musical instrument; to which our version inclines; and a learned Jew (h) says, it is the instrument which the mourning...
John Gill
For dogs have compassed me,.... By whom are meant wicked men, as the following clause shows; and so the Chaldee paraphrase renders it, "the wicked who are like to many dogs"; and to these such are often compared in Scripture, Matthew 7:6; and it may be the Roman soldiers, who were Gentiles, may be chiefly intended, whom the Jews used to call dogs, Matthew 15:26; these assembled together in...
Matthew Henry
The Spirit of Christ, which was in the prophets, testifies in this psalm, as clearly and fully as any where in all the Old Testament, "the sufferings of Christ and the glory that should follow" (1 Pet. i. 11); of him, no doubt, David here speaks, and not of himself, or any other man. Much of it is expressly applied to Christ in the New Testament, all of it may be applied to him, and some of it...
Charles H. Spurgeon
For dogs have compassed me: The many, the vulgar multitude, like a pack of hounds, crowded around the Saviour on the cross. Psa_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...
Charles H. Spurgeon
For dogs have compassed me: this assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet. The common multitude, with ribald jest and execrable mockery, stood there taunting him. He was encircled by them, like a poor hunted stag surrounded by the hounds.
Charles H. Spurgeon
For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: These were the common people, the rabble, the multitude that thronged around, barking at him like a pack of hungry hounds. Psa_22:16. They pierced my hands and my feet. This little sentence shows that this Psalm must relate to the Lord Jesus. Truly did David see him in vision. It happened not to David to have his hands and...
Charles H. Spurgeon
For dogs have compassed me: There is the ribald crowd, the common multitude, howling at him, and eager for his blood.
Charles H. Spurgeon
The assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet. I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me. They had stripped him, and this was no small part of the Saviour’s grief and shame that he hung there a spectacle of scorn to ten thousand cruel eyes that looked and stared at him.
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 masses of the common people hooting at him: “Dogs...
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.”
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.
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.