Psalms 22:16 (KJV)

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

Cross-references

dogs. Ps 22:1 Ps 22:20 Ps 59:6 Ps 59:14 Mt 7:6 Php 3:2 Re 22:15

assembly. Ps 86:14 Jer 12:6 Mt 26:57 Mr 15:16-20 Lu 22:63-71 Lu 23:4 Lu 23:5 Lu 23:10 Lu 23:11 Lu 23:23

they pierced.The textual reading is {kaäri,} "as a lion my hands and feet;" but several MSS., read {kâroo,} and others {karoo} in the margin, which affords the reading adopted by our translators. So the LXX. [oryxan cheiras mou kai podas,] so also the Vulgate, Syriac, Arabic, and Ethiopic; and as all the Evangelists so quote the passage, and apply it to the crucifixion of Christ, there seems scarcely the shadow of a doubt that this is the genuine reading; especially when it is considered, that the other contains no sense at all. The whole difference lies between [vâv] {wav} and [yôwd,] {yood,} which might easily be mistaken for each other. Zec 12:10 Mt 27:35 Mr 15:24 Lu 23:33 Joh 19:23 Joh 19:37 Joh 20:25 Joh 20:27

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