Daily Psalter Reading - First Friday

Today's reading: Psalms 21-26 (22-27)*

Psalm 21(22) is one of the most important Psalms for us to understand what Jesus is going through on the cross, and therefore is crucial to our understanding of our faith in general.
This Psalm begins "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" Sound familiar? Jesus utters this cry from the cross (Matthew 27:46 and Mark 15:34). 
Many view these words from Jesus as an indication of the abandonment of the Son by the Father. For us, this is an impossibility. When Matthew and Mark say that Jesus uttered these words they probably mean to show that he recited the entirety of this Psalm.
Read this Psalm carefully. See how many of the verses in the first half of the Psalm are fulfilled in the life of Jesus. Notice the shift that occurs in verse 22. 
How might the knowledge that Jesus prayed this entire Psalm from the cross, instead of just the first verse, effect our understanding of the crucifixion?

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*The numbering of the Psalms varies based on the source from which they were translated. Most American Bibles use a translation of the Hebrew text, while the Orthodox Church tends to use translations based on the Greek text known as the Septuagint. From today forward I will be placing the numbering you would find in a typical American Bible in parentheses.