Psalms 22:17

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…

I may tell all my bones - That is, I may count them. They are so prominent, so bare, that I can see them and count their number. The idea here is that of emaciation from continued suffering or from…

In these verses we have Christ suffering and Christ praying, by which we are directed to look for crosses and to look up to God under them.

I. Here is Christ suffering. David indeed was often in…

I may tell i.e. I can count. He is reduced to a living skeleton. Cp. Job 33:21.

they look&c. While they they gaze &c. The original expresses the malicious delight with which these monsters of cruelty…