16. We are to understand every item of this sad description as being urged
by the Lord Jesus as a plea for divine help; and this will give us a high idea
of his perseverance in prayer. For dogs have compassed me. Here he marks
the more ignoble crowd, who were howling like hungry dogs. Hunters frequently
surround their game with a circle, and gradually encompass them with an
ever-narrowing ring of dogs and men. Such a picture is before us. In the center
stands, not a panting stag, but a bleeding, fainting man, and around him are
the enraged and unpitying wretches who have hounded him to his doom. Here we
have the “hind of the morning” of whom
the psalm so plaintively sings, hunted by bloodhounds, all thirsting to devour
him. The assembly of the wicked have inclosed me. Thus the Jewish
people, which called itself an assembly of the righteous, is justly for its
sins marked upon the forehead as an assembly of the wicked. This is not the
only occasion when professed churches of God have become synagogues of Satan, and
have persecuted the Holy One and the Just. They pierced my hands and myfeet. This can by no means refer to David, or to anyone but Jesus of
Nazareth. Pause, and view the wounds of the Redeemer.
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