Psalm 22:17
New International Version
All my bones are on display; people stare and gloat over me.

New Living Translation
I can count all my bones. My enemies stare at me and gloat.

English Standard Version
I can count all my bones— they stare and gloat over me;

Berean Standard Bible
I can count all my bones; they stare and gloat over me.

King James Bible
I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me.

New King James Version
I can count all My bones. They look and stare at Me.

New American Standard Bible
I can count all my bones. They look, they stare at me;

NASB 1995
I can count all my bones. They look, they stare at me;

NASB 1977
I can count all my bones. They look, they stare at me;

Legacy Standard Bible
I count all my bones. They look, they stare at me;

Amplified Bible
I can count all my bones; They look, they stare at me.

Christian Standard Bible
I can count all my bones; people look and stare at me.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
I can count all my bones; people look and stare at me.

American Standard Version
I may count all my bones. They look and stare upon me;

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
All of my bones wail & wail; they stare and look at me!

Brenton Septuagint Translation
They counted all my bones; and they observed and looked upon me.

Contemporary English Version
I can count all my bones, and my enemies just stare and sneer at me.

Douay-Rheims Bible
They have numbered all my bones. And they have looked and stared upon me.

English Revised Version
I may tell all my bones; they look and stare upon me:

GOD'S WORD® Translation
I can count all my bones. People stare. They gloat over me.

Good News Translation
All my bones can be seen. My enemies look at me and stare.

International Standard Version
I can count all my bones. They look at me; they stare at me.

JPS Tanakh 1917
I may count all my bones; They look and gloat over me.

Literal Standard Version
I count all My bones—they look expectingly, | They look on Me,

Majority Standard Bible
I can count all my bones; they stare and gloat over me.

New American Bible
I can count all my bones. They stare at me and gloat;

NET Bible
I can count all my bones; my enemies are gloating over me in triumph.

New Revised Standard Version
I can count all my bones. They stare and gloat over me;

New Heart English Bible
I can count all of my bones. They look and stare at me.

Webster's Bible Translation
I may number all my bones: they look and stare upon me.

World English Bible
I can count all of my bones. They look and stare at me.

Young's Literal Translation
I count all my bones -- they look expectingly, They look upon me,

Additional Translations ...
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Context
The Psalm of the Cross
16For dogs surround me; a band of evil men encircles me; they have pierced my hands and feet. 17I can count all my bones; they stare and gloat over me. 18They divide my garments among them and cast lots for my clothing.…

Cross References
Luke 23:27
A great number of people followed Him, including women who kept mourning and wailing for Him.

Luke 23:35
The people stood watching, and the rulers sneered at Him, saying, "He saved others; let Him save Himself if He is the Christ of God, the Chosen One."

Job 33:21
His flesh wastes away from sight, and his hidden bones protrude.


Treasury of Scripture

I may tell all my bones: they look and stare on me.

I may

Psalm 102:3-5
For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth…

Job 33:21
His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; and his bones that were not seen stick out.

Isaiah 52:14
As many were astonied at thee; his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men:

look

Matthew 27:36,39-41
And sitting down they watched him there; …

Mark 15:29-32
And they that passed by railed on him, wagging their heads, and saying, Ah, thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it in three days, …

Luke 23:27,35
And there followed him a great company of people, and of women, which also bewailed and lamented him…

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Psalm 22
1. David complains in great discouragement
9. He prays in great distress
23. He praises God














Verse 17. - I may tell all my bones. Our Lord's active life and simple habits would give him a spare frame, while the strain of crucifixion would accentuate and bring into relief every point of his anatomy. He might thus, if so minded, "tell all his bones." They look and stare upon me (comp. Luke 23:35, "And the people stood beholding").

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
I can count
אֲסַפֵּ֥ר (’ă·sap·pêr)
Verb - Piel - Imperfect - first person common singular
Strong's 5608: To count, recount, relate

all
כָּל־ (kāl-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every

my bones;
עַצְמוֹתָ֑י (‘aṣ·mō·w·ṯāy)
Noun - feminine plural construct | first person common singular
Strong's 6106: A bone, the body, the substance, selfsame

they
הֵ֥מָּה (hêm·māh)
Pronoun - third person masculine plural
Strong's 1992: They

stare
יַ֝בִּ֗יטוּ (yab·bî·ṭū)
Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 5027: To scan, look intently at, to regard

and gloat over me.
יִרְאוּ־ (yir·’ū-)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 7200: To see


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