Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1925-02-04
The Twenty-SecOnd Psalm.
GA Study,)


describes, almost word for word,
what took place at the time of the
crucifxion. 1t describes a person
who is suffering most extreme tor
ture of both mind and body. His
mind is tortured by the feeling that
he is deserted and forsaken:
1. My God, my God, why hast thou
forsaken me?
And his agony increases because
he is continually calling on God, but
gets no RESPONSE
2. o my God, l cry in the daytime,
but thou nearest not; and in the night
season, and am not silent.
And he is overwhelmed with grief
by the thought that God is dealing
with him so differently than others
who have called upon him:
4. Our fathers trusted in thee; they
trusted, and thou didst deliver them
5. They trusted in thee, and were
not COMPOUNDED.
6. But l am worm, and no man;
people.
And he is subjected to all kinds
of insults from his enemies:
Z. All they that see me laugh me
to scorn; they shoot out the lip, they
shake the head, saying:
8. He trusted in the Lord that he
would deliver him; let him deliver him,
seeing he delighted in him.
And he is comprised by enemies
as vicious and ferocious as beasts:
r. Many bulls have comprised me;
strong bulls of Bashan have beset me
round
49, They CAPPED upon me with their
mouths, as a ravening and roaring lion.
And he is suffering bodily tor
ture:
a. 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.
49, My strength is dried up like
potsherd and my tongue cleaveth to
my jaws; and thou hast brought me
into the dust of death.
16. For dogs have comprised me;
the assembly of the wicked have en-
closed me; they pierced my hands and
my feet.
18. They part my garments among
them, and cast lots upon my vesture.
But notwithstanding his misery
and disappointment he calls on God
for help:
49, But be not thou far from me, o
Lord; o my strength, haste thee to
help me.
81 Save me from the lions mouth;
for thou hast heard me from the horns
of the unicorns.
Let us here notice that Matthew,
Mark, Luke and John each gives an
account of what was said and done
at the cruciixion and many of the
words and sentences which they use
are very much like those used in the
first twenty-one verses of this psalm.
And the question arises, is this
psalm a prophecy? And, if so, the
question: "Of whom speaketh the
prophet this--of himself or some
other MANI" David had his troubles
and Affections, but not such as here
described. He was not "despised OF
the people," Nor can it be said that
he was ever in a position from which
he could not escape, where he could
be gazed at and Knocked by his enc
mics, his bones out of joint, his heart
sinking, his strength ebbing away,
while he is tormented by intense
thirst and surrounded by foes who
have pierced his hands and his feet.
Let us here notice that this psalm
has thirty-one verses; that the first
part of it describes one as having an
experience of intense suffering,
which ends with the twentyfirst
verse The following ten verses
clearly indicate that this experience
of suffering was for a purpose, and
that the result of it was that:
81 All the ends of the world shall
remember and turn unto the Lord; and
all the kindred of the nations shall
worship before thee.
The twenty-second verse begins
an ascription of praise: Thou hast
heard me. | will (therefore) declare
thy name unto my brethren He
who was just now helpless in the
midst of the assembled wicked calls
upon all who fear the Lord to praise
and glorify him, because he did not
hide his face from him when he was
the despised and afflicted one. And
on account of that event:
30 All they that be fat upon the
earth shall eat and worship.
80. seed shall serve him; it shall
be accounted to the Lord for a genera
ton.
81. They shall come and declare