Psalms 22:21

Save me from the lion's mouth,.... Either the devil, who is as a roaring lion, whom Christ overcame both in the garden and on the cross, and destroyed him and his works; or all his wicked enemies,…

Save me from the lion’s mouth - His enemies represented as fierce and ravening lions, compare Psa 22:13, For thou hast heard me - The word “heard” in this place is equivalent to “saved” - or saved in…

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…

for thou hast heard me&c. Render, yea from the horns of the wild oxen thou hast answered me. A singularly bold and forcible construction. We expect a second imperative, repeating the prayer for…