A common misinterpretation of Psalms 22:17 forces the text to read 'they pierced my hands and my feet' as in some modern translations based on variant manuscripts, whereas the King James Version renders it as bones being visible and stared at, leading to anachronistic proof-texting for Christ's crucifixion without acknowledging textual differences or the passage's poetic depiction of general emaciation and mockery; others dismiss its Messianic foreshadowing by confining it solely to David's personal woes, ignoring the psalm's prophetic trajectory fulfilled in Jesus' suffering.
Psalms 22:17
King James Version (1769)
17 I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me.
Psalms 22:17 vividly portrays the psalmist's profound physical suffering and humiliation during intense persecution, where his emaciated body exposes all his bones so distinctly that he can count them, while his enemies cruelly stare and gloat over his vulnerability, underscoring a desperate cry for deliverance in a broader lament that prophetically echoes the Messiah's agony on the cross amid mocking onlookers.