David or Jesus in Psalm 40?

Psalm 40, that has been so comforting to so many people through the years, is actually a prophetic Psalm, pointing to Christ and His purpose for coming. He came to do God’s will, which is practically the theme of the Gospel of John. The words in the middle of Psalm 40 are repeated in Hebrews 10, referring to Christ.

In the outline of Psalm 40, the last seven verses could be viewed as David’s prayer for help and comfort—but just coming through some prophetic verses, I just looked at the last seven verses as a continuation of prophesy, only now Jesus calling out from the cross. Look at it with me and see if you see it. Some people don’t, and maybe it’s a stretch, but let’s look.

Psa 40:11  Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O LORD: let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me.	Just before this verse, David said prophetically of Christ: I have not concealed thy lovingkindness and thy truth from the great congregation. Now he asks for that same lovingkindness and truth to continually preserve him. David or Jesus? Both? The Gospels tell us Christ’s prayers on the cross, but those are just his verbal ones. Could he have prayed this in his heart on the cross? We don’t know. For us, it’s a tremendous prayer. God’s lovingkindness  =  His acts of love, and his truth = His words of love and guidance. They preserve us. Look to them.
(12)  For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me.	If we’re thinking this could be Christ on the cross, wasn’t he dealing with innumerable evils? After all, he was taking on him the sin of the world. He says “mine iniquities have taken hold upon me.” Christ didn’t have any iniquities. But he refers to so many of them that he can’t look up, and they are more than his hairs, and because of them, his heart fails him. Did David have that many personal iniquities? Maybe this is Christ, and our sins became his sins, and yes, they were innumerable. When the soldiers pierced Jesus’ side, out came blood and water (John 19:34). I’ve heard that is a sign of a broken heart. Perhaps Christ’s real cause of death was his heart failing him from the pressure of our sins on him.
(13)  Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me: O LORD, make haste to help me.  (14)  Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil.  (15)  Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say unto me, Aha, aha.	I’ve read these verses thinking of both David and Jesus. David did have true enemies that sought him to destroy him, wishing him evil. So did Jesus. The part that makes me doubt that this could refer to Jesus is his prayer that his enemies would be desolate for a reward of the shame they caused him. We know Jesus despised the shame (Heb. 12:2), but he never expressed ill will towards his persecutors.  Did he feel it and not express it verbally for us to read about in the New Testament? I can’t speculate on that. Whoever goes through what David or Jesus went through would certainly be praying for God to deliver and help them.
(16)  Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: let such as love thy salvation say continually, The LORD be magnified.  (17)  But I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinketh upon me: thou art my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God.	David said almost the same thing in Psalm 35. When going through suffering, persecution and anything else, let God be magnified. And they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name. (Acts 5:41) It’s still OK to rehearse before God that we find ourselves needy. But the way out of the emotional spiral is to remind ourselves of God. He is our help and deliverer. No one else can do that. Jesus turned to God from the midst of suffering. Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously: (1 Peter 2:23)