“ Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round. ”
Many bulls have compassed me - Men with the fierceness and fury of bulls. Compare Isaiah 51:20 ; Psalms 68:30 . Strong bulls of Bashan - The country of Bashan embraced the territory which w...
Many bulls have compassed me: strong (g) [bulls] of Bashan have beset me round. (g) He means that his enemies were so fat, proud and cruel that they were more like beasts than men.
XXII. This Ps. (p. 372) consists of two parts. In Psalms 22:1-21 a godly man in deep and manifold distress complains that the God of his fathers, the God who has been with him from the beginning,...
12. Strong bulls have encompassed me. The Psalmist now complains of the cruelty and barbarous rage of his enemies; and he compares them first to bulls, secondly to lions, and thirdly to dogs...
DISCOURSE: 527 THE SUFFERINGS OF CHRIST Psalms 22:11-21 . Be not far from me, for trouble is near; for there is none to help. Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me r...
Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round. Many bulls have compassed me - The bull is the emblem of brutal strength, that gores and tramples down all before it. Such...
Many bulls—of Bashan— By the strong and fierce bulls of Bashan, which was the richest soil in Palestine, are represented the haughty senators, the chief-priests, the Scribes, the Pharisees, and t...
Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round. Many bulls - implying the strength and violence of His enemies, while he was as the gentle and weak 'hind' (title)....
The Ps. has two sections, in the first of which ( Psalms 22:1-21 ) the writer earnestly seeks God's help in a time of extreme trouble, while in the second ( Psalms 22:22-31 ) he breaks into a song of...
Bulls of Bashan. — For “Bashan” see Numbers 21:33 ; for its pastures and cattle, comp. Deuteronomy 32:14 , and for the figures, Amos 4:1 . Instead of “fat bulls,” the LXX. and Vulgate paraphrase...
Psalms 22:1-31 WHO is the sufferer whose wail is the very voice of desolation and despair, and who yet dares to believe that the tale of his sorrow will be a gospel for the world? The usual answer...
the Cry of the Forsaken Psalms 22:1-15 The Hebrew inscription of this exquisite ode is, “The hind of the morning.” The hind is the emblem of loveliness; see Song of Solomon 2:7 ; Song of Solo...
Whatever may have been the local conditions creating this psalm, it has become so perfectly and properly associated with the one Son of God that it is almost impossible to read it in any other way. T...
It would be a loss of time to continually remark, how impossible it is to preserve any kind of consistency in those scriptures, by keeping up the recollection of David, King of Israel, as being at al...
Psalms 22 Proper Psalm for Good Friday ( Morning ). Psalms 22, 23 = Day 4 ( Evening ).
Many bulls have compassed me ,.... By whom are meant the chief priests, elders, Scribes, and Pharisees, among the Jews, and Herod and Pontius Pilate among the Gentiles, comparable to bulls for their...
Many bulls have compassed me: strong [bulls] of Bashan have beset me round. Ver. 12. Many bulls have compassed me ] Young bulls, which noteth their lustiness and courage. Tauri bene saginati et p...
Be not far from me As to affection and succour; for trouble is near At hand, and ready to swallow me up; for there is none to help Thy help therefore will be the more seasonable, because it is...
The Sufferings of the Messiah; The Messiah Supported in His Sufferings. 11 Be not far from me; for trouble is near...
Bulls; wicked, and violent, and potent enemies; for such are so called, Ezekiel 39:18 Amos 4:1 . Strong bulls of Bashan, i.e. fat and lusty, as the cattle there bred were, Deuteronomy 3:13...
The Sufferer's Prayer For Deliverance And Provides A Description of His Predicament ( Psalms 22:11-21 ). That we are to see some of these descriptions as figurative comes out in Psalms 22:21 whe...
INTRODUCTION “The subject of this psalm is the deliverance of a righteous sufferer from his enemies, and the effect of this deliverance on others. It is so framed as to be applied without violence t...
You will not need any comment on this Psalm if, while we read it, you see Christ on the cross, and you think that you hear him uttering these sacred words. This Psalm is dedicated» to the Chief Music...
Psalms 22:1 . My God, my God. The LXX, Ο Θεος ο Θεος μου. The Chaldaic is like the English. The Hebrew forms the superlative degree by repetition. Example: “The heaven, and the heaven of heavens c...
My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me? The prophetic image of the Prince of sufferers Who is the sufferer whose wail is the very voice of desolation and despair, and who yet dares to believ...
EXPOSITION THERE is no psalm which has raised so much controversy as this. Admitted to be Messianic by the early Hebrew commentators, it is by some understood wholly of David; by others, appli...
The Messiah in His Great Passion. A Prophecy of the Messiah's Suffering. To the chief musician upon Aijeleth Shahar, that is, "Of the hind of the dawn," a psalm of David. The words "Of the hind...
Acts 4:27 ; Amos 4:1-3 ; Deuteronomy 32:14 ; Deuteronomy 32:15 ; Ezekiel 39:18 ; Isaiah 34:7 ; Jeremiah 50:11 ; Matthew 27:1 ; Psalms 68:30
Bulls — Wicked and violent, and potent enemies; for such are so called, Ezekiel 39:18 ; Amos 4:1 . Of Bashan — As the cattle there bred were, and therefore fierce and furious.