Psalm 22:16-18 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Psalms 22:11-21

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 trouble, and beset with enemies; but many of the particulars here specified are such as were never true of David, and therefore must be appropriated to Christ in the depth of his humiliation. 1. He is here deserted by his friends: Trouble and distress are near, and there is none to help, none to... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 22:16

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 Pilate's hall and surrounded Christ, and made sport with him; to these were committed the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 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 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 by the spectators who were around him; and so the Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, Arabic, and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 22:18

They part my garments among them ,.... Such as died the death of the cross were crucified naked F8 Vid Lipsium de Cruce, l. 2. c. 7. p. 81. , 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 coat, wove from the top to the bottom; and therefore, not willing to rend it, they cast lots... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 22:16

For dogs have compassed me - This may refer to the Gentiles, the Roman soldiers, and others by whom our Lord was surrounded in his trial, and at his cross. They pierced my hands and my feet - The other sufferings David, as a type of our Lord, might pass through; but the piercing of the hands and feet was peculiar to our Lord; therefore, this verse may pass for a direct revelavion. Our Lord's hands and feet were pierced when he was nailed to the cross, David's never were pierced. But... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 22:17

I may tell all my bones - This may refer to the violent extension of his body when the whole of its weight hung upon the nails which attached his hands to the transverse beam of the cross. The body being thus extended, the principal bones became prominent, and easily discernible. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 22:18

They part my garments - This could be true in no sense of David. The fact took place at the crucifixion of our Lord. The soldiers divided his upper garment into four parts, each soldier taking a part; but his tunic or inward vestment being without seam, woven in one entire piece, they agreed not to divide, but to cast lots whose the whole should be. Of this scripture the Roman soldiers knew nothing; but they fulfilled it to the letter. This was foreseen by the Spirit of God; and this is a... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 22:16

Verse 16 16.They have pierced my hands and my feet. The original word, which we have translated they have pierced, is כארי, caari, which literally rendered is, like a lion. As all the Hebrew Bibles at this day, without exception, have this reading, I would have had great hesitation in departing from a reading which they all support, were it not that the scope of the discourse compels me to do so, and were there not strong grounds for conjecturing that this passage has been fraudulently... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 22:17

Verse 17 17.I will number. The Hebrew word עצמות, atsmoth which signifies bones, is derived from another word, which signifies strength; and, therefore, this term is sometimes applied to friends, by whose defense we are strengthened, or to arguments and reasons which are, as it were, the sinews and the strength of the defense of a cause. Some, therefore, put this meaning upon the passage, — I will profit nothing by reckoning up all my arguments in self-vindication; for my enemies are fully... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 22:18

Verse 18 What follows in the next verse concerning his garments is metaphorical. It is as if he had said, that all his goods were become a prey to his enemies, even as conquerors are accustomed to plunder the vanquished, or to divide the spoil among themselves, by casting lots to determine the share which belongs to each. Comparing his ornaments, riches, and all that he possessed, to his garments, he complains that, after he had been despoiled of them, his enemies divided them among themselves,... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Psalms 22:11-21

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 22:16

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 22:17

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 22:18

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 22:16

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 22:17

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 22:18

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 22:16

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 22:17

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 22:18

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