For dogs have compassed me - Men who resemble dogs; harsh, snarling, fierce, ferocious. See (Philippians 3:2), note; an…

Dogs. —Literally, barkers. (For the wild scavenger dogs of the East, compare to 1 Kings 12:19 and following.)…

It is melted in the midst of my bowels. My strength is dried up like a potsherd: and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws: and thou hast brought me in…

They have pierced my hands and my feet. The original word, which we have translated they have pierced, is כארי, caari, w…

For dogs have compassed me
By whom are meant wicked men, as the following clause shows; and so the Chaldee paraphras…

In these verses, we see Christ suffering and Christ praying, which directs us to expect suffering and to look up to God amidst it. The specific man…

1. In the previous psalms, the sufferings which David endured from his son and from Saul seemed to be addre ed. Now here, in the third set o…