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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
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 them, he might have told them, as they might be told...
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.”
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.