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• Song Name: 4. SUFFERING: The Tortured but Trusting King (Psalm 22)
• Artist: Mark Meynell
• Album: HEARTSONGS from the Shepherd-King Poet
• Year: 2014

David suffered - as a direct consequence of being God's anointed king despite all his flaws (in other words, he was God's OT Messiah or Christ). As he pours out his anguish to God of genuine pain in Psalm 22, he simultaneously writes a prophetic from God to us, providing a precedent of his Greater Son's own suffering as the perfect Christ. (With Background from 1 Samuel 18-31 and 2 Samuel 15-18)