When wondering if Jesus prayed this psalm as a prayer it is important to realize that this psalm and others yet to come tell of David or other writers speaking of feeling abandoned, separated from God. Most of the time we view Jesus as always being even tempered, always having a level personality. But we also must consider the frequency of when He went off to pray. So reading a psalm like this asking if he had other times of even feeling a little somewhat abandoned we must ask ourselves like David, when in my own human weakness do I feel abandoned from God? And how often do I feel abandoned from God? We think, O, Jesus certainly didn't feel that way in His humanity. But then beside Philippians 2 where He emptied Himself and became a servant, a slave, then we are later reminded:
For we have not an high Priest, which can not be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but was in all things tempted in like sort, yet without sin.
Hebrews 4:15 GNV
Is it a sin to feel abandoned and wonder if God has forsaken us? We know He hasn't, yet abandonment is such a powerful feeling. We know He laid the foundation of the earth, created the heavens and the earth.. And yet we do feel abandoned. When we say Jesus had times of refreshing we think so He must have "always" been okay, felt okay. But if he had times of refreshing was there not times when He was less than refreshed?Wasn't there something in His humanity that told Him, "You need the Father and I time?"
Foot travel can be exhausting. Traveling with disciples who even when going up to Jerusalem and He knowing He would be crucified and then having His disciples arguing about who was most important, even to have added a mother chime in and specifically ask for her sons to sit next to Him in His kingdom, her assuming He was going to Jerusalem to set up Israel as a once again autonomous country Israel free of the Romans. In His human life not mentally and physically worn down with the combination of everything going on at once?
Even just a month more or less before He knew what He was doing taking time waiting for Lazarus to die, meeting his sisters one at a time addressing their disappointment to Him about their brother dying, seeing the unbelief of those who were actually mourning with them, and deeply groaning within Himself at that unbelief just moments before He would call Lazarus out of the grave. He broke down weeping. Was it to share in the mourning of His friends? Or was it because the unbelief was so prevalent and seemingly rampant?
While we pretty much know worry wasn't part of His human life (or what about that which might cause us to have anxiety?) walking as He did with His Father, it is evident with the woman with the bloody issue when she sought to only touch the hem of His garment for healing Jesus said, I have felt virtue go out of me. Personally I can't help but wonder that in Jesus' humanity He was often touched with the feelings of our infirmities, was not the constant interaction with other humans a constant drain in His life. If He was not human would he have had need to pray?
Lord, help me to join with Jesus in praying this psalm.