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He Hath Done This

Psalm 22:31

It is finished. The psalm said He would declare it to a people yet unborn.

Part of Psalm 22: From the Cross

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The closing line of Psalm 22, that he hath done this, lands on Christ's finished work.

The study behind this

Psalm 22 is a cry of King David, set down roughly a thousand years before Christ. It opens in the voice of a man surrounded and abandoned, then bends, line by line, toward a suffering David himself never endured and a rescue that reaches the ends of the earth.

The prophecy

...that he hath done this.

Psalm 22:31

Written by David, around a thousand years before the cross.

The fulfilment

It is finished".

John 19:30

Fulfilled in Jesus Christ.

The reading

A psalm's last line and Jesus' last breath in John close on the very same note: it is done.

A People Not Yet Born
A People Not Yet Born

The psalm closes looking ahead, to God's saving work, accomplished, and told to a people not yet born. Its final line:

...that he hath done this.

Psalm 22:31
The Fingertip On The Final Word
The Fingertip On The Final Word

Done. And as Jesus hung dying, John records His final word:

It is finished".

John 19:30
A Thousand Years Apart
A Thousand Years Apart

Different words, in different tongues, a thousand years apart, but the same note: a finished work.

Nothing Left To Carry
Nothing Left To Carry

So what's left for you to finish? Nothing, only Someone to come home to: the One who said it is done.

Every quotation is the King James Version, verified word for word against the text.

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