Psalms 22:12

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

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Many bulls have compassed me - Men with the fierceness and fury of bulls. Compare Isaiah 51:20 ; Psalms 68:30 . Strong bulls of Bashan - Th...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

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...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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,...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

12. Strong bulls have encompassed me. The Psalmist now complains of the cruelty and barbarous rage of his enemies; and he compares them firs...
Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

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 co...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

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,...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Many bulls—of Bashan— By the strong and fierce bulls of Bashan, which was the richest soil in Palestine, are represented the haughty senators, th...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round. Many bulls - implying the strength and violence of His enemies, whi...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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 s...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Bulls.. strong bulls of Bashan ] suggesting the strength and aggressive rage of the Psalmist's enemies. Bashan was the N. part of the region E....
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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 . Inste...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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 sorro...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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 lo...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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 i...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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 rec...
James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

Psalms 22 Proper Psalm for Good Friday ( Morning ). Psalms 22, 23 = Day 4 ( Evening ).
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Many bulls have compassed me ,.... By whom are meant the chief priests, elders, Scribes, and Pharisees, among the Jews, and Herod and Pontius Pilate...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

Many bulls have compassed me: strong [bulls] of Bashan have beset me round. Ver. 12. Many bulls have compassed me ] Young bulls, which noteth thei...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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 the...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Sufferings of the Messiah; The Messiah Supported in His Sufferings....
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

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,...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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 descript...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘Many bulls have surrounded me, strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round. They gape at Me with their mouth, like a ravening and a roaring lion.' H...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

INTRODUCTION “The subject of this psalm is the deliverance of a righteous sufferer from his enemies, and the effect of this deliverance on others. I...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

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...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

This Psalm is a sort of window, through which we can look into the heart of our crucified Saviour. We see all the external part of the crucifixion th...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

This Psalm is headed, «To the chief Musician upon Aijeleth Shahar,» or, as the margin renders it, «the hind of the morning,» «A Psalm of David,» It b...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

This Psalm so sweetly and so accurately pictures the inward griefs of our Divine Saviour that it might have been written after the crucifixion rather...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

This marvellous Psalm is a wonderful prophecy, which might seem as if it had been composed after the suffering of our Lord; yet it was written many h...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Stand and look up at Christ upon the cross, and look upon these words, as his. He himself is the best exposition of this wondrous psalm. Psalms 22:...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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....
The Biblical Illustrator

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 d...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

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 th...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Many bulls, numerous and dangerous enemies, have compassed Me; strong bulls of Bashan, the rich meadow country northeast of Gilead, have beset Me...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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...

¹² Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.

Related Commentaries of Psalms 22:12

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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