Full Ps 22 in context. NT anchors: Matt 27:35, 27:39–43, 27:46 (Christ quoting v. 1); Mark 15:24, 15:29–32, 15:34; Luke 23:33–46; John 19:23–24, 19:28–30, 19:37. Textual note on v. 16, Masoretic ka'ari ("like a lion") vs. LXX ōryxan ("they pierced"); the ASV text itself renders "they pierced my hands and my feet," while flagging the Masoretic alternative; DSS 5/6HevPs supports a verbal form closer to LXX.
The messianic reading of pierced-hands-and-feet depends on this textual-critical question; surface fully. Contested: formally an individual lament (Gunkel); Jesus quotes only the opening line, and the church reads the whole dereliction-to-vindication arc behind it, a typological, not compositional-prophetic, use, and Stanley Porter's caution against Richard Hays's "metalepsis" (that a first line automatically claims a whole psalm) belongs on the record.
Cross-link to The Crimson Worm of Psalm 22, Ps 22:6's tola'at shani imagery. Editor's Notes drawer eligible. Featured commentary: Spurgeon, Treasury of David on Ps 22.
My God - Who art my friend and father, though now thou frownest upon me. The repetition denotes, the depth of his distress, which made him cry so earnestly. Forsaken - Withdrawn the light of thy countenance, the supports and comforts of thy spirit, and filled me with the terrors of thy wrath: this was in part verified in David, but much more fully in Christ. — John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Bible (1765), on Psalms 22:1
