Anguish in Darkness (Psalm 22)

There are many difficulties confronting us when we set ourselves to write something about this Psalm, difficulties of a various nature, exegetical, historical, theological. A man could write a rather long treatise about the difficulties alone. Try to write something about this Psalm, restricting yourself to this theme: What did David suffer when he wrote here as he did? For instance, whatever could have happened to David when he complains: "They have pierced my hands and feet"? Or this: "they...