Psalm 22:16
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New International Version (©1984)
Dogs have surrounded me; a band of evil men has encircled me, they have pierced my hands and my feet.

New Living Translation (©2007)
My enemies surround me like a pack of dogs; an evil gang closes in on me. They have pierced my hands and feet.

English Standard Version (©2001)
For dogs encompass me; a company of evildoers encircles me; they have pierced my hands and feet—

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
For dogs have surrounded me; A band of evildoers has encompassed me; They pierced my hands and my feet.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Dogs have surrounded me. A mob has encircled me. They have pierced my hands and feet.

King James Bible
For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.

American King James Version
For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have enclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.

American Standard Version
For dogs have compassed me: A company of evil-doers have inclosed me; They pierced my hands and my feet.

Bible in Basic English
Dogs have come round me: I am shut in by the band of evil-doers; they made wounds in my hands and feet.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For many dogs have encompassed me: the council of the malignant hath besieged me. They have dug my hands and feet.

Darby Bible Translation
For dogs have encompassed me; an assembly of evil-doers have surrounded me: they pierced my hands and my feet.

English Revised Version
For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of evil-doers have enclosed me; they pierced my hands and my feet.

Webster's Bible Translation
For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.

World English Bible
For dogs have surrounded me. A company of evildoers have enclosed me. They have pierced my hands and feet.

Young's Literal Translation
And to the dust of death thou appointest me, For surrounded me have dogs, A company of evil doers have compassed me, Piercing my hands and my feet.

Geneva Study Bible

For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they {k} pierced my hands and my feet.

(k) Thus David complained as though he were nailed by his enemies in both hands and feet, but this was accomplished in Christ.

Wesley's Notes

22:16 Dogs - So he calls his enemies for their insatiable greediness, and implacable fierceness against him. Pierced - These words cannot with any probability be applied to David, but were properly and literally verified in Christ.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

16. Evildoers are well described as dogs, which, in the East, herding together, wild and rapacious, are justly objects of great abhorrence. The last clause has been a subject of much discussion (involving questions as to the genuineness of the Hebrew word translated "pierce)" which cannot be made intelligible to the English reader. Though not quoted in the New Testament, the remarkable aptness of the description to the facts of the Saviour's history, together with difficulties attending any other mode of explaining the clause in the Hebrew, justify an adherence to the terms of our version and their obvious meaning.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

22:11-21 In these verses we have Christ suffering, and Christ praying; by which we are directed to look for crosses, and to look up to God under them. The very manner of Christ's death is described, though not in use among the Jews. They pierced his hands and his feet, which were nailed to the accursed tree, and his whole body was left so to hang as to suffer the most severe pain and torture. His natural force failed, being wasted by the fire of Divine wrath preying upon his spirits. Who then can stand before God's anger? or who knows the power of it? The life of the sinner was forfeited, and the life of the Sacrifice must be the ransom for it. Our Lord Jesus was stripped, when he was crucified, that he might clothe us with the robe of his righteousness. Thus it was written, therefore thus it behoved Christ to suffer. Let all this confirm our faith in him as the true Messiah, and excite our love to him as the best of friends, who loved us, and suffered all this for us. Christ in his agony prayed, prayed earnestly, prayed that the cup might pass from him. When we cannot rejoice in God as our song, yet let us stay ourselves upon him as our strength; and take the comfort of spiritual supports, when we cannot have spiritual delights. He prays to be delivered from the Divine wrath. He that has delivered, doth deliver, and will do so. We should think upon the sufferings and resurrection of Christ, till we feel in our souls the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings.


Psalm 59:6 They return at evening, they howl like a dog, And go around the city.
Psalm 59:7 Behold, they belch forth with their mouth; Swords are in their lips, For, they say, "Who hears?"
Matthew 27:35 And when they had crucified Him, they divided up His garments among themselves by casting lots.
John 20:25 So the other disciples were saying to him, "We have seen the Lord!" But he said to them, "Unless I see in His hands the imprint of the nails, and put my finger into the place of the nails, and put my hand into His side, I will not believe." (NASB ©1995)

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For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.

dogs Ps 22:1,20 59:6,14 Mt 7:6 Php 3:2 Re 22:15

compassed Lu 11:53,54

assembly Ps 86:14 Jer 12:6 Mt 26:57 Mr 15:16-20 Lu 22:63-71 23:4,5,10,11,23

they pierced The textual reading is kaari, `as a lion my hands and feet;' but several MSS read karoo, and others karoo in the margin, which affords the reading adopted by our translators. So the LXX [], so also the Vulgate, Syriac, Arabic, and Ethiopic; and as all the Evangelists so quote the passage, and apply it to the crucifixion of Christ, there seems little doubt that this is the genuine reading; especially when it is considered that the other contains no sense at all. The whole difference lies between wav and yood, which might be easily taken for one another. Zec 12:10 Mt 27:35 Mr 15:24 Lu 23:33 Joh 19:23,37 20:25,27

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