Psalms 22

Psalms 22:12

Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.

Mine enemies (and, in type, thine, O Saviour) are more like unto beasts, then men; like furious bulls, which have been pampered in the fat pastures of Bashan, they beset me, and are ready to gore me through.

Psalms 22:16

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

Neither are they like to bulls for their strength, and lions for their fierceness, only; but they are also like unto dogs for clamour and cruel insultation; they both bite me with their teeth, and bay at me with their impure throats: thus do my implacable enemies persecute me; yea they have done that to me, in figure and representation, which they shall do really to thee my Saviour, they have pierced my hands and my feet. x 2

Psalms 22:20

Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog.

Deliver thou, O Lord, my dear life from the power and cruelty of these savage and merciless enemies.

Psalms 22:29

All they that be fat upon earth shall eat and worship: all they that go down to the dust shall bow before thee; and none can keep alive his own soul.

Not only the poor and needy shall cheerfully eat of thy sacrifices, but even the wealthy and great also shall partake thereof, and worship thee; yea all those that humble themselves even to the dust of death for the profession of thy name, even those that have no care to keep themselves alive when their life may stand in the way of thy honour, they shall humbly adore thee.

Psalms 22:31

They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that he hath done this.

They shall make report of the righteous judgments of God, unto that posterity which is yet unborn; and shall declare that it is he, that hath done these great things.