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I am poured out like water. All my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax; It is melted within me.
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The Reality of Christ's Agony
The vivid metaphors—being "poured out like water," bones "out of joint," and a heart "melted like wax"—paint a picture of complete physical and emotional collapse. Commentators see this as a prophetic description of Jesus's crucifixion, highlighting the sheer extremity of His suffering. His strength was gone, His body wracked with pain, and His spirit in anguish, showing the profound reality of what He endured for humanity.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
I am poured out like water - The sufferer now turns from his enemies and describes the effect of all these outward persecutions and…
19th Century
Anglican
The state of hopeless prostration into which the victim of these terrible foes is brought could not be more powerfully described. It is a state of …
Baptist
Many bulls have compassed me; strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round. They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lio…
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16th Century
Protestant
I am poured out like water. Until now he has informed us that being surrounded by wild beasts, he was not far from death, as if he had bee…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
I am poured out like water This may refer to Christ's sweat in the garden, when through his agony or conflict with S…
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…
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13th Century
Catholic
In the previous psalms, the sufferings which David endured from his son and from Saul seemed to be addressed. Now here, in the third set …