I am poured out like water
This may refer to Christ's sweat in the garden, when through his
agony or conflict with Satan, and his vehemency in prayer, and
the pressure on his mind, in a view of his people's sins, and the
wrath of God for, them, and the accursed death he was about to
undergo on that account, sweat in great abundance came from all
parts of his body, and not only stood in large drops, but fell to
the ground like great drops of blood; so that his body was all
covered with water, or rather seemed to be dissolving into water,
or else to the quantity of tears he shed both there and
elsewhere; his sorrow was great even unto death, which vented
itself in floods of tears; his prayers were offered up with
strong crying and tears; his head was, as Jeremiah wished his
might be, as waters, and his eyes a fountain of tears, yea, his
whole body seemed to be bathed with them: or else to the shedding
of his blood, and the pouring out his soul unto death for his
people, which was voluntarily done by himself, or by his enemies;
which they shed like water, and made no account of it, ( Psalms 79:3 ) . Some
have thought this respects the opinion some had of him, even some
of his own disciples, when he was dead; all their hopes of his
being their Redeemer and Saviour being gone, he was as water
spilled on the ground, which cannot be gathered up; see (
2 Samuel
14:14 ) ; but rather the phrase intends his being quite
dispirited, his heart failing, his soul sorrowful unto death, his
hands feeble, his knees weak like water, and he just ready to
faint and die; see ( Joshua 7:5 ) ( Ezekiel 7:17
) ;
and all my bones are out of joint;
not through the stretching of his body on the cross, which seems
to be designed in ( Psalms 22:17
) ; but as it is with persons in a panic, their joints seem to be
loosed, and their bones parting asunder, their legs tremble, no
member can perform its office, but as if everyone was dislocated
and out of its place; see ( Psalms 6:2 ) ;
my heart is like wax, it is melted in the midst of my
bowels;
as wax melts before the fire, so did the heart of Christ at the
wrath and fury of God, which was poured forth like fire upon him;
and which he had a sense of, when in the garden and on the cross,
bearing the sins of his people, and sustaining the punishment due
unto them for it was not because of his enemies, nor merely at
the presence of God, and his righteous judgments, which is
sometimes the case; see ( 2 Samuel
17:10 ) ( Psalms 68:2 ) (
97:5 ) ; but
at the apprehension of divine wrath, and feeling the same, as the
surety of his people; and what an idea does this give of the
wrath of God! for if the heart of Christ, the Lion of the tribe
of Judah, melted at it, what heart can endure, or hands be
strong, when God deals with them in his wrath? ( Ezekiel
22:14 ) .
