Psalms 22:16

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For dogs have compassed me - Men who resemble dogs; harsh, snarling, fierce, ferocious. See Philippians 3:2 , note; and Revelation 22:15 , note...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they (k) pierced my hands and my feet. (k) Thus David complained as though...
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,...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

dogs. Figure of speech Hypocatastasis. App-6. "Enemies" being implied (not expressed). assembly . congregation: in civic aspect. wicked . bre...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

16. They have pierced my hands and my feet. The original word, which we have translated they have pierced, is כארי, caari, which lite...
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

For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet. For dogs have compassed me - This may ref...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

For dogs have compassed me— The idea here is, of a pack of hounds encompassing a distressed deer, which they have hunted down. See the remarks on...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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

Dogs ] which haunt Eastern towns and villages in savage and cowardly packs—fit emblems of the Psalmist's fierce and yet contemptible foes. They pie...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Dogs. — Literally, barkers. (For the wild scavenger dogs of the East, comp. 1 Kings 12:19 , &c) Symmachus and Theodotion render, “hunting do...
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 Testimony of the Delivered Psalms 22:16-31 In the middle of Psalms 22:21 there is a remarkable change from the plaintive to the triumphan...
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

For dogs have compassed me ,.... By whom are meant wicked men, as the following clause shows; and so the Chaldee paraphrase renders it, "the wicked...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet. Ver. 16. For dogs have compassed me ]...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Dogs have compassed me So he calls his enemies, or rather the enemies of Christ, for their insatiable greediness, and implacable fierceness against...
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

He calls his enemies dogs for their vileness and filthiness, for their insatiable greediness and implacable fury and fierceness against him. He exp...
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

‘For dogs have surrounded Me. A company of evildoers have enclosed Me. They pierced my hands and my feet.' But His trials continued. Having obtained...
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 Biblical Illustrator

They pierced my hands and my feet. Our Lord’s passion The great mystery of the passion of our Lord is one which in all its fulness the human mi...
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

For dogs have compassed Me, as the Messiah, in resuming His complaint, cries out; the assembly of the wicked have enclosed Me; they pierced My hands...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Dogs — So he calls his enemies for their insatiable greediness, and implacable fierceness against him. Pierced — These words cannot with any probab...

¹⁶ For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.

Related Commentaries of Psalms 22:16

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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 Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Psalms 22:16