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Psalms 22:14
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The Psalm of the Cross
13They open their jaws against me like lions that roar and maul. 14I am poured out like water, and all my bones are disjointed. My heart is like wax; it melts away within me. 15My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You lay me in the dust of death.
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Zac Poonen
Stephen Kaung
C.H. Spurgeon
Julian of Norwich
David ServantSummary
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- Keil-Delitzsch
- Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
- John Gill
- Tyndale
Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch Old Testament Commentary
(Heb.: 22:15-16)Now he described, how, thus encompassed round, he is still just living, but already as it were dead. The being poured out like water reminds us of the ignominious abandonment of the Crucified One to a condition of weakness, in which His life, deprived of its natural support, is in the act of dissolution, and its powers dried up (Sa2 14:14); the bones being stretched out, of the forcible stretching out of His body (חתפּרד, from פּרד to separate, cf. Arab. frd, according to its radical signification, which has been preserved in the common Arabic dialect: so to spread out or apart that the thing has no bends or folds, (Note: Vid., Bocthor, Dict. fran.-arabe, s. v. Etendre and Dployer.) Greek ἐξαπλοῦν); the heart being melted, recalls His burning anguish, the inflammation of the wounds, and the pressure of blood on the head and heart, the characteristic cause of death by crucifixion. נמס, in pause נמס, is 3 praet.; wax, דּונג, receives its name from its melting (דנג, root דג, τηκ). In Psa 22:16 the comparison כּחרשׂ has reference to the issue of result (vid., Psa 18:43): my strength is dried up, so that it is become like a potsherd. חכּי (Saadia) instead of כּחי commends itself, unless, כּח perhaps, like the Talmudic כּיח cidumlaT eht eki, also had the signification "spittle" (as a more dignified word for רק). לשׁון, with the exception perhaps of Pro 26:28, is uniformly feminine; here the predicate has the masculine ground-form without respect to the subject. The part. pass. has a tendency generally to be used without reference to gender, under the influence of the construction laid down in Ges. 143, 1, b, according to which לשׁני may be treated as an accusative of the object; מלקוחי, however, is acc. loci (cf. ל Psa 137:6; Job 29:10; אל Lam 4:4; Eze 3:26): my tongue is made to cleave to my jaws, fauces meas. Such is his state in consequence of outward distresses. His enemies, however, would not have power to do all this, if God had not given it to them. Thus it is, so to speak, God Himself who lays him low in death. שׁפת to put anywhere, to lay, with the accompanying idea of firmness and duration, Arab. ṯbât, Isa 26:12; the future is used of that which is just taking place. Just in like manner, in Isa 53:1-12, the death of the Servant of God is spoken of not merely as happening thus, but as decreed; and not merely as permitted by God, but as being in accordance with the divine will. David is persecuted by Saul, the king of His people, almost to the death; Jesus, however, is delivered over by the Sanhedrim, the authority of His people, to the heathen, under whose hands He actually dies the death of the cross: it is a judicial murder put into execution according to the conditions and circumstances of the age; viewed, however, as to its final cause, it is a gracious dispensation of the holy God, in whose hands all the paths of the world's history run parallel, and who in this instance makes sin subservient to its own expiation.
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary
Utter exhaustion and hopeless weakness, in these circumstances of pressing danger, are set forth by the most expressive figures; the solidity of the body is destroyed, and it becomes like water; the bones are parted; the heart, the very seat of vitality, melts like wax; all the juices of the system are dried up; the tongue can no longer perform its office, but lies parched and stiffened (compare Gen 49:4; Sa2 14:14; Psa 58:8). In this, God is regarded as the ultimate source, and men as the instruments.
John Gill Bible Commentary
I am poured out like water,.... This may refer to Christ's sweat in the garden, when through his agony or conflict with Satan, and his vehemency in prayer, and the pressure on his mind, in a view of his people's sins, and the wrath of God for, them, and the accursed death he was about to undergo on that account, sweat in great abundance came from all parts of his body, and not only stood in large drops, but fell to the ground like great drops of blood; so that his body was all covered with water, or rather seemed to be dissolving into water, or else to the quantity of tears he shed both there and elsewhere; his sorrow was great even unto death, which vented itself in floods of tears; his prayers were offered up with strong crying and tears; his head was, as Jeremiah wished his might be, as waters, and his eyes a fountain of tears, yea, his whole body seemed to be bathed with them: or else to the shedding of his blood, and the pouring out his soul unto death for his people, which was voluntarily done by himself, or by his enemies; which they shed like water, and made no account of it, Psa 79:3. Some have thought this respects the opinion some had of him, even some of his own disciples, when he was dead; all their hopes of his being their Redeemer and Saviour being gone, he was as water spilled on the ground, which cannot be gathered up; see Sa2 14:14; but rather the phrase intends his being quite dispirited, his heart failing, his soul sorrowful unto death, his hands feeble, his knees weak like water, and he just ready to faint and die; see Jos 7:5, Eze 7:17; and all my bones are out of joint; not through the stretching of his body on the cross, which seems to be designed in Psa 22:17; but as it is with persons in a panic, their joints seem to be loosed, and their bones parting asunder, their legs tremble, no member can perform its office, but as if everyone was dislocated and out of its place; see Psa 6:2; my heart is like wax, it is melted in the midst of my bowels; as wax melts before the fire, so did the heart of Christ at the wrath and fury of God, which was poured forth like fire upon him; and which he had a sense of, when in the garden and on the cross, bearing the sins of his people, and sustaining the punishment due unto them for it was not because of his enemies, nor merely at the presence of God, and his righteous judgments, which is sometimes the case; see Sa2 17:10; but at the apprehension of divine wrath, and feeling the same, as the surety of his people; and what an idea does this give of the wrath of God! for if the heart of Christ, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, melted at it, what heart can endure, or hands be strong, when God deals with them in his wrath? Eze 22:14.
Tyndale Open Study Notes
22:14 The psalmist’s sense of being poured out like water expresses a meaningless, transitory existence that leaves him depleted.
Psalms 22:14
The Psalm of the Cross
13They open their jaws against me like lions that roar and maul. 14I am poured out like water, and all my bones are disjointed. My heart is like wax; it melts away within me. 15My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You lay me in the dust of death.
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Psalms - Part 1
By Zac Poonen2.0K57:31PsalmsPSA 14:1PSA 22:1PSA 22:6PSA 22:14PSA 22:16PSA 22:18PSA 22:22PSA 30:11PSA 31:11PSA 31:19PSA 36:9PSA 37:4PSA 37:7PSA 37:11PSA 37:21PSA 37:23PSA 38:11PSA 40:13PSA 40:16In this sermon, the speaker emphasizes the importance of filling one's heart with the Word of God rather than simply avoiding evil. He references the story of a demon being cast out and returning with seven others to illustrate the need for a filled and clean heart. The speaker encourages meditating on the law of the Lord day and night, comparing the result to a tree planted by rivers of water that prospers in all endeavors. The sermon also touches on the qualities of a godly person, such as having clean hands and a pure heart, seeking guidance from the Lord, and being set apart for God's purposes.
A Light in the Land (Christianity in Wales 200-2000)
By Gwyn Davies1.1K1:02:22PSA 22:14ISA 53:5MAT 27:32LUK 9:62LUK 22:44JHN 20:25In this sermon, the speaker reflects on the history of Christianity in Wales, acknowledging both the blessings and challenges that have been faced. He mentions the presence of disagreement and lack of vision in applying faith practically, as well as periods of spiritual decline. The speaker highlights the importance of the gospel as the light of the world and the only hope for true light in Wales. He concludes by suggesting that God may be preparing young leaders to bring about a revival in the country.
The Tabernacle #1 - Outer Court
By Stephen Kaung9901:08:37EXO 8:1PSA 22:141CO 1:23HEB 4:121JN 5:8REV 1:5REV 5:9In this sermon, the preacher focuses on the concept of purification and service in the believer's life. He explains that the water mentioned in 1 John 5 represents the life of Jesus within us, which cleanses us daily. The preacher also references the crucifixion of Jesus, where water and blood flowed from his side, symbolizing purification and cleansing. He emphasizes that believers need to be pure from sin and defilement in order to serve as priests. The sermon also mentions the importance of the tabernacle and the holiest of all as the starting point for understanding the believer's life and ministry.
Let Us Not Forget the Substitute
By C.H. Spurgeon0Substitutionary AtonementThe Suffering of ChristPSA 22:14ISA 53:5ZEC 13:7MAT 26:38JHN 3:16ROM 5:82CO 5:21GAL 3:13HEB 9:281PE 2:24C.H. Spurgeon emphasizes the profound significance of Christ as our Substitute, who bore the weight of sin and divine wrath on behalf of humanity. He vividly describes the agony of Gethsemane and the brutal suffering endured by Jesus, highlighting that His death was necessary for the salvation of His chosen people. Spurgeon asserts that the doctrine of justice being executed upon Christ is central to the Gospel, and any church that dismisses this truth ceases to be a true church of Christ. The sermon serves as a reminder of the depths of Christ's sacrifice and the importance of recognizing Him as our Savior.
I Am Poured Out Like Water, and All My Bones Are Out of Joint
By C.H. Spurgeon0Grace in TrialsSuffering Of ChristPSA 22:14ISA 53:5MAT 26:38JHN 16:33ROM 8:182CO 12:9PHP 3:10HEB 4:151PE 5:10REV 21:4C.H. Spurgeon reflects on the profound suffering of Jesus, describing Him as feeling weak and dislocated, burdened by the weight of the cross and the wrath of God. He emphasizes the intensity of Christ's agony, which was so great that it would have been unbearable for anyone else, yet He endured it fully. Spurgeon encourages believers to remember the sacrifice of Christ and to draw strength from His suffering, as it prepares a throne of grace for us. He draws a parallel between Christ's physical suffering and the spiritual trials believers face, assuring that just as Christ emerged victorious, so too will His followers. The sermon calls for a deep reflection on the grief of Christ and the grace it affords us in our own struggles.
A Part of His Passion
By Julian of Norwich0PSA 22:14ISA 53:5HEB 12:21PE 2:24Julian of Norwich describes a vivid vision of Christ's Passion, focusing on the gradual changes in His appearance as He suffered on the cross. She details the transformation of His face from fresh and ruddy to pale, then to a deep brown-blue as death approached. Julian emphasizes the intense pain and drying of Christ's flesh both internally and externally, symbolizing the prolonged suffering endured for humanity's salvation. She reflects on the profound agony Christ experienced, likening it to a prolonged death over seven nights, highlighting the ultimate sacrifice and love demonstrated through His Passion.
Day 80, Mark 15
By David Servant0PSA 22:1PSA 22:14ISA 53:5ISA 53:71PE 2:23David Servant preaches on the silent suffering of Jesus as prophesied by Isaiah, highlighting His self-restraint, motivation to save all men, and the meeting of justice and love on the cross. He contrasts the purity of Jesus with the wickedness of those who crucified Him, emphasizing the transformation that occurs when a person is born again. Jesus' crucifixion was a public spectacle along a major road, fulfilling prophetic words from Psalms 22, showing the depth of His anguish and the fulfillment of Scripture.
- Keil-Delitzsch
- Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
- John Gill
- Tyndale
Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch Old Testament Commentary
(Heb.: 22:15-16)Now he described, how, thus encompassed round, he is still just living, but already as it were dead. The being poured out like water reminds us of the ignominious abandonment of the Crucified One to a condition of weakness, in which His life, deprived of its natural support, is in the act of dissolution, and its powers dried up (Sa2 14:14); the bones being stretched out, of the forcible stretching out of His body (חתפּרד, from פּרד to separate, cf. Arab. frd, according to its radical signification, which has been preserved in the common Arabic dialect: so to spread out or apart that the thing has no bends or folds, (Note: Vid., Bocthor, Dict. fran.-arabe, s. v. Etendre and Dployer.) Greek ἐξαπλοῦν); the heart being melted, recalls His burning anguish, the inflammation of the wounds, and the pressure of blood on the head and heart, the characteristic cause of death by crucifixion. נמס, in pause נמס, is 3 praet.; wax, דּונג, receives its name from its melting (דנג, root דג, τηκ). In Psa 22:16 the comparison כּחרשׂ has reference to the issue of result (vid., Psa 18:43): my strength is dried up, so that it is become like a potsherd. חכּי (Saadia) instead of כּחי commends itself, unless, כּח perhaps, like the Talmudic כּיח cidumlaT eht eki, also had the signification "spittle" (as a more dignified word for רק). לשׁון, with the exception perhaps of Pro 26:28, is uniformly feminine; here the predicate has the masculine ground-form without respect to the subject. The part. pass. has a tendency generally to be used without reference to gender, under the influence of the construction laid down in Ges. 143, 1, b, according to which לשׁני may be treated as an accusative of the object; מלקוחי, however, is acc. loci (cf. ל Psa 137:6; Job 29:10; אל Lam 4:4; Eze 3:26): my tongue is made to cleave to my jaws, fauces meas. Such is his state in consequence of outward distresses. His enemies, however, would not have power to do all this, if God had not given it to them. Thus it is, so to speak, God Himself who lays him low in death. שׁפת to put anywhere, to lay, with the accompanying idea of firmness and duration, Arab. ṯbât, Isa 26:12; the future is used of that which is just taking place. Just in like manner, in Isa 53:1-12, the death of the Servant of God is spoken of not merely as happening thus, but as decreed; and not merely as permitted by God, but as being in accordance with the divine will. David is persecuted by Saul, the king of His people, almost to the death; Jesus, however, is delivered over by the Sanhedrim, the authority of His people, to the heathen, under whose hands He actually dies the death of the cross: it is a judicial murder put into execution according to the conditions and circumstances of the age; viewed, however, as to its final cause, it is a gracious dispensation of the holy God, in whose hands all the paths of the world's history run parallel, and who in this instance makes sin subservient to its own expiation.
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary
Utter exhaustion and hopeless weakness, in these circumstances of pressing danger, are set forth by the most expressive figures; the solidity of the body is destroyed, and it becomes like water; the bones are parted; the heart, the very seat of vitality, melts like wax; all the juices of the system are dried up; the tongue can no longer perform its office, but lies parched and stiffened (compare Gen 49:4; Sa2 14:14; Psa 58:8). In this, God is regarded as the ultimate source, and men as the instruments.
John Gill Bible Commentary
I am poured out like water,.... This may refer to Christ's sweat in the garden, when through his agony or conflict with Satan, and his vehemency in prayer, and the pressure on his mind, in a view of his people's sins, and the wrath of God for, them, and the accursed death he was about to undergo on that account, sweat in great abundance came from all parts of his body, and not only stood in large drops, but fell to the ground like great drops of blood; so that his body was all covered with water, or rather seemed to be dissolving into water, or else to the quantity of tears he shed both there and elsewhere; his sorrow was great even unto death, which vented itself in floods of tears; his prayers were offered up with strong crying and tears; his head was, as Jeremiah wished his might be, as waters, and his eyes a fountain of tears, yea, his whole body seemed to be bathed with them: or else to the shedding of his blood, and the pouring out his soul unto death for his people, which was voluntarily done by himself, or by his enemies; which they shed like water, and made no account of it, Psa 79:3. Some have thought this respects the opinion some had of him, even some of his own disciples, when he was dead; all their hopes of his being their Redeemer and Saviour being gone, he was as water spilled on the ground, which cannot be gathered up; see Sa2 14:14; but rather the phrase intends his being quite dispirited, his heart failing, his soul sorrowful unto death, his hands feeble, his knees weak like water, and he just ready to faint and die; see Jos 7:5, Eze 7:17; and all my bones are out of joint; not through the stretching of his body on the cross, which seems to be designed in Psa 22:17; but as it is with persons in a panic, their joints seem to be loosed, and their bones parting asunder, their legs tremble, no member can perform its office, but as if everyone was dislocated and out of its place; see Psa 6:2; my heart is like wax, it is melted in the midst of my bowels; as wax melts before the fire, so did the heart of Christ at the wrath and fury of God, which was poured forth like fire upon him; and which he had a sense of, when in the garden and on the cross, bearing the sins of his people, and sustaining the punishment due unto them for it was not because of his enemies, nor merely at the presence of God, and his righteous judgments, which is sometimes the case; see Sa2 17:10; but at the apprehension of divine wrath, and feeling the same, as the surety of his people; and what an idea does this give of the wrath of God! for if the heart of Christ, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, melted at it, what heart can endure, or hands be strong, when God deals with them in his wrath? Eze 22:14.
Tyndale Open Study Notes
22:14 The psalmist’s sense of being poured out like water expresses a meaningless, transitory existence that leaves him depleted.