rakovsky wrote:http://www.chabad.org/library/bible_cdo ... rashi=trueRashi , like a lion, my hands and feet: As though they are crushed in a lion’s mouth, and so did Hezekiah say (in Isa. 38: 13): “like a lion, so it would break all my bones.”
The Artscroll English Tanach.22:17
for dogs* have surrounded me; a pack of evildoers has enclosed me, like a lion [ they attack] my hands and my feet.
Psalm 59.8 is interesting, The Jewish study bible translates as "sharp words" but the note b informs that the literal translation is swords.
they rave with their mouths "b sharp words b" are on their lips
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=aDu ... ps&f=false
Chabad , Psalm 22
Rashi was a medieval commentator .There was already long before Rashi a Christian tradition of reading this psalm as messianic.
This discussion is only a game of chess , apparently
http://www.heartofisrael.net/chazak/articles/ps22.htm