Psalms 22:17 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 22:17

I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me.

KJV

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ASV

I may count all my bones. They look and stare upon me;

WEB

I can count all my bones; they stare and gloat over me.

YLT

I count all my bones--they look expectingly, They look upon me,

DBT

I may count all my bones. They look, they stare upon me;

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Psalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.

Author: David principally (73 Psalms + 2 NT-cited); Asaph, Sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan; ~50 anonymous.
Date: Composed c. 1400 BC (Mosaic Ps 90) through the post-exilic period (Ps 126 ''when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion''). Roughly a millennium of composition; editorial compilation likely into the Persian period.

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Messianic PsalmsMy God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me — the crucifixion psalm.

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Luke 23:35
And the people stood beholding. And the rulers also with them derided him, saying, He saved others; let him save himself, if he be Christ, the chosen of God.
Job 33:21
His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; and his bones that were not seen stick out.
Psalms 22:14
I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.
Isaiah 52:14
As many were astonied at thee; his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men:
Matthew 27:39–41
And they that passed by reviled him, wagging their heads,

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), where David, as a type of Christ, complains of the very calamitous condition he was in upon many accounts. He complains, and mixes comforts with his complaints; he complains (

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

His blessed body was lean and emaciated with labour, grief, and fasting, during the whole course of his ministry, which made him look as if he was nearly 50 years old when he was yet but 33, as we find, John viii.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

His emaciated frame, itself an item of his misery, is rendered more so as the object of delighted contemplation to his enemies. The verbs, "look" and "stare," often occur as suggestive of feelings of satisfaction (compare Ps 27:13;

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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