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Psalms 22:21

Save me from the lion’s mouth! Yes, you have rescued me from the horns of the wild oxen.

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  • WEB World English Bible

    Save me from the lion’s mouth! Yes, you have rescued me from the horns of the wild oxen.

  • KJV King James Version

    Save me from the lion’s mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns.

  • JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)

    (22-22) Save me from the lion's mouth; yea, from the horns of the wild-oxen do Thou answer me.

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Cross-references (11)

Passages linked to Psalms 22:21 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.

  • 2 Timothy 4:17 But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, that through me the message might be fully proclaimed, and that all the Gentiles might hear. So I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.
  • 1 Peter 5:8 Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.
  • Numbers 23:22 God brings them out of Egypt. He has as it were the strength of the wild ox.
  • John 14:30 I will no more speak much with you, for the prince of the world comes, and he has nothing in me.
  • Acts 4:27 “For truly, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gathered together against your holy servant, Jesus, whom you anointed,
  • Isaiah 34:7 The wild oxen will come down with them, and the young bulls with the mighty bulls; and their land will be drunken with blood, and their dust made greasy with fat.
  • John 8:59 Therefore they took up stones to throw at him, but Jesus was hidden, and went out of the temple, having gone through the middle of them, and so passed by.
  • Deuteronomy 33:17 Majesty belongs to the firstborn of his herd. His horns are the horns of the wild ox. With them he will push all the peoples to the ends of the earth. They are the ten thousands of Ephraim. They are the thousands of Manasseh.”
  • Acts 5:30-32 The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom you killed, hanging him on a tree. God exalted him with his right hand to be a Prince and a Savior, to give repentance to Israel, and remission of sins. We are his witnesses of these things; and so also is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him.”
  • Job 39:9-10 “Will the wild ox be content to serve you? Or will he stay by your feeding trough? Can you hold the wild ox in the furrow with his harness? Or will he till the valleys after you?
  • Luke 22:53 When I was with you in the temple daily, you didn’t stretch out your hands against me. But this is your hour, and the power of darkness.”

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Explain this verse (13 sources)

Historical commentary, presented as a primary source — not an endorsement.

Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Christ is delivered with a more mighty deliverance by…

Christ is delivered with a more mighty deliverance by overcoming death, than if he had not tasted death at all.

Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain.

John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Psa 22:21 Save me from the lion’s mouth: for…
Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain The lion; either the devil, that raging and roaring…
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Save me from the lion's mouth,.... Either the devil,…
John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Heard - Answered and delivered me.
Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 21. Save me from the lion's mouth] Probably…
Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain Save me from the lion’s mouth - His enemies…
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain Deliverance pleaded in view of former help, when in…
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 21. Lion’s mouth… horns of the unicorns—Two descriptions of…
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 21. for thou hast heard me &c.] Render, yea…
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (21) Unicorns.—See Num_23:22; either “buffaloes” or “antelopes.” There is…
The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Save me from the lion"s mouth (comp. ver. 13).…
Charles H. Spurgeon 1885 · Public Domain Ver. 21. Save me from the lion's mouth: for…

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