Zechariah 12:10 → Psalm 22:16

Psalm 22:16 — "they have pierced my hands and feet" (the LXX/Qumran reading kāʾărû underlying ὤρυξαν) — and Zechariah 12:10 — "they will look on Me, the One they have pierced (dāqar)" — are the OT's two principal piercing texts for the suffering of the LORD's afflicted one. They are not bound by direct citation (Zechariah does not quote the Psalm) but by a shared theological stream: the righteous-sufferer Psalm and the late-prophetic Davidic-Spirit oracle each describe a chosen one whose body is run through by hostile men, and the canon reads them as one figure. Their convergence is anatomical at the cross: Psalm 22 supplies the hands and feet (the nails), Zechariah 12:10 the side (the spear), so that between them they map the scriptural anatomy of the crucified body — the same body John interprets under Psalm 22 (the casting of lots, John 19:24) and Zechariah 12:10 (the pierced side, John 19:37). Psalm 22 also moves from piercing to the worldwide worship that follows the sufferer's vindication (22:27), just as Zechariah moves from piercing to Spirit-wrought mourning and the cleansing fountain (13:1); both trace the arc from wound to redemption. Read together they prevent any sentimental or merely tragic reading of the cross: the pierced One is the vindicated One, and to gaze on His wounds — hands, feet, and side — is to behold the costly love that turns mourning into worship and makes the crucified King the desire of all the families of the earth.