What event is this passage depicting? The crucifixion of Christ. Executioners encircled our Savior. They cast lots for His clothes. They drove nails through the most sensitive nerve centers - His blessed hands and feet. Onlookers mocked Him. “He saved others, but he cannot save himself!” But did you know David penned this 1,000 years before the crucifixion happened? Furthermore, David wrote this Psalm four centuries before the Persians invented crucifixion. So not only did this passage forecast our Bridegroom’s crucifixion, it predicted crucifixion itself!
The 40 Bible authors wrote with such consistency about Christ that the only way to describe its continuity is God must have inspired them. Yahweh is the One True Architect.
