Psalms 22:16

¹⁶My enemies surround me like a pack of dogs; an evil gang closes in on me. They have pierced my hands and feet.m

Psalms 22 is one of the most haunting and hope-filled chapters in the Psalter. It begins with a cry of dereliction — “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” — that Jesus would later utter from the cross. The psalm moves from raw lament to confident trust, from isolation to corpo