This Psalm declares boldly that «He has not abandoned the afflicted» (vs. 24)... Psalm 22 is probably one of the most graphic representations of exactly what was going on and Jesus is declaring the reality to
everyone who can
hear it... by only speaking the first phrase his hearers would immediately know the rest of the Psalm and understand... the Psalm ends with the same phrasing that Jesus ends with, he says «It is finished» the psalm says «He has done it»... its easy to
miss - see
from a Greek model rather than the Hebraic model... God di not forsake Him... that is not what the Father is like... not even slightly.