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the Testimony of the Delivered
Psa 22:16-31
In the middle of Psa 22:21 there is a remarkable change from the plaintive to the triumphant: supplication and entreaty break out into exultation; hope saves the broken harp from the hands of despair, restrings it, and extracts from it strains to which angels, on their way home to God, are constrained to listen.
He who had said, Thou hearest not, Psa 22:2, confesses that all the while God has been hearing and helping. Now Jesus will join the saints in psalms of praise. See Joh 17:26 (will make it known) and Heb 2:12. Man may abhor a worm, but God uses worms to thresh mountains, Isa 41:14-15.
In the closing verses there is a sure forecast of the effects of the death on the Cross not only upon the Jews, but also upon the ends of the earth, that is, the Gentiles. The usurper shall be dethroned, Psa 22:28; resurrection shall be accomplished, Psa 22:29; and a spiritual seed shall satisfy the Redeemer’s travail, Psa 22:30.