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King James Version

Psalms 22:17

I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Jesus Continued;   Persecution;   The Topic Concordance - Jesus Christ;   Suffering;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Psalms, the Book of;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Psalms, book of;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Revelation, Theology of;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Aijeleth Shahar;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Animals;   Dog;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Aijeleth Hash-Shahar;   Atonement;   English Versions;   Greek Versions of Ot;   Psalms;   Sin;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Print ;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Cedron;   Naphtali;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Messiah;   Psalms the book of;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Prophecy;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Tale;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Dog;  

Parallel Translations

New Living Translation
I can count all my bones. My enemies stare at me and gloat.
English Revised Version
I may tell all my bones; they look and stare upon me:
Update Bible Version
I may count all my bones; They look and stare on me.
New Century Version
I can count all my bones; people look and stare at me.
New English Translation
I can count all my bones; my enemies are gloating over me in triumph.
Webster's Bible Translation
I may number all my bones: they look [and] stare upon me.
World English Bible
I can count all of my bones. They look and stare at me.
Amplified Bible
I can count all my bones; They look, they stare at me.
English Standard Version
I can count all my bones— they stare and gloat over me;
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
thei noumbriden alle my boonys. Sotheli thei lokiden, and bihelden me;
Berean Standard Bible
I can count all my bones; they stare and gloat over me.
Contemporary English Version
I can count all my bones, and my enemies just stare and sneer at me.
American Standard Version
I may count all my bones. They look and stare upon me;
Bible in Basic English
I am able to see all my bones; their looks are fixed on me:
Complete Jewish Bible
Dogs are all around me, a pack of villains closes in on me like a lion [at] my hands and feet.
Darby Translation
I may count all my bones. They look, they stare upon me;
Easy-to-Read Version
I can see each one of my bones. My enemies are looking at me; they just keep staring.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
For dogs have encompassed me; a company of evil-doers have inclosed me; like a lion, they are at my hands and my feet.
King James Version (1611)
I may tell all my bones: they looke and stare vpon me.
New Life Bible
I can tell how many bones I have. The people look at me with wide eyes.
New Revised Standard
I can count all my bones. They stare and gloat over me;
Geneva Bible (1587)
I may tell all my bones: yet they beholde, and looke vpon me.
George Lamsa Translation
My bones ached with pain; they looked and stared upon me.
Good News Translation
All my bones can be seen. My enemies look at me and stare.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
I may tell all my bones, They, look for - they behold me!
Douay-Rheims Bible
(21-18) They have numbered all my bones. And they have looked and stared upon me.
Revised Standard Version
I can count all my bones--they stare and gloat over me;
Bishop's Bible (1568)
I may tell all my bones. They stande staring & gasing vpon me:
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
They counted all my bones; and they observed and looked upon me.
Christian Standard Bible®
I can count all my bones;people look and stare at me.
Hebrew Names Version
I can count all of my bones. They look and stare at me.
Lexham English Bible
I can count all my bones; they gaze, they look at me.
Literal Translation
I count all My bones; they look, they stare at Me.
Young's Literal Translation
I count all my bones -- they look expectingly, They look upon me,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
They pearsed my hondes and my fete, I might haue tolde all my bones: as for them, they stode staringe and lokinge vpon me.
New American Standard Bible
I can count all my bones. They look, they stare at me;
New King James Version
I can count all My bones. They look and stare at Me.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
I can count all my bones. They look, they stare at me;
Legacy Standard Bible
I count all my bones.They look, they stare at me;

Contextual Overview

11 Be not far from me; for trouble is near; for there is none to help. 12 Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round. 13 They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion. 14 I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels. 15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death. 16 For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet. 17 I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me. 18 They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture. 19 But be not thou far from me, O Lord : O my strength, haste thee to help me. 20 Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

I may: Psalms 102:3-5, Job 33:21, Isaiah 52:14

look: Matthew 27:36, Matthew 27:39-41, Mark 15:29-32, Luke 23:27, Luke 23:35

Reciprocal: Job 16:10 - gaped Psalms 22:14 - all Isaiah 45:22 - Look Isaiah 57:4 - draw Obadiah 1:12 - looked Obadiah 1:13 - looked Zechariah 12:10 - they shall look Mark 15:24 - crucified Mark 15:31 - also John 19:37 - They

Cross-References

Genesis 12:2
And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
Genesis 13:16
And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered.
Genesis 15:5
And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.
Genesis 17:6
And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.
Genesis 22:1
And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am.
Genesis 22:2
And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.
Genesis 22:8
And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together.
Genesis 22:9
And they came to the place which God had told him of; and Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood.
Genesis 22:10
And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son.
Genesis 22:13
And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

I may tell all my bones,.... For what with the stretching out of his body on the cross, when it was fastened to it as it lay on the ground, and with the jolt of the cross when, being reared up, it was fixed in the ground, and with the weight of the body hanging upon it, all his bones were disjointed and started out; so that, could he have seen them, he might have told them, as they might be told by the spectators who were around him; and so the Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, Arabic, and Ethiopic versions render it, "they have numbered all my bones"; that is, they might have done if: the Targum is, "I will number all the scars of my members", made by the blows, scourges, and wounds he received;

they look [and] stare upon me; meaning not his bones, but his enemies; which may be understood either by way of contempt, as many Jewish interpreters explain it: so the Scribes and elders of the people, and the people themselves, looked and stared at him on the cross, and mocked at him, and insulted him; or by way of rejoicing, saying, "Aha, aha, our eye hath seen", namely, what they desired and wished for,

Psalms 35:21; a sight as was enough to have moved an heart of stone made no impression on them; they had no sympathy with him, no compassion on him, but rejoiced at his misery: this staring agrees with their character as dogs.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I may tell all my bones - That is, I may count them. They are so prominent, so bare, that I can see them and count their number. The idea here is that of emaciation from continued suffering or from some other cause. As applied to the Redeemer, it would denote the effect of long protracted suffering and anxiety on his frame, as rendering it crushed, weakened, emaciated. Compare the notes at Isaiah 52:14; Isaiah 53:2-3. No one can prove that an effect such as is here referred to may not have been produced by the sufferings of the Redeemer.

They look and stare upon me - That is, either my bones - or, my enemies that stand around me. The most obvious construction would refer it to the former - to his bones - as if they stood out prominently and stared him in the face. Rosenmuller understands it in the latter sense, as meaning that his enemies gazed with wonder on such an object. Perhaps this, on the whole, furnishes the best interpretation, as there is something unnatural in speaking of a man’s own bones staring or gazing upon him, and as the image of his enemies standing and looking with wonder on one so wretched, so crushed, so broken, is a very striking one. This, too, will better agree with the statement in Isaiah 52:14, “Many were astonished at thee;” and Isaiah 53:2-3, “He hath no form nor comeliness, and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him;” “we hid, as it were, our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.” It accords also better with the statement in the following verse; “they,” that is, the same persons referred to, “part my garments amoung them.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 22:17. I may tell all my bones — This may refer to the violent extension of his body when the whole of its weight hung upon the nails which attached his hands to the transverse beam of the cross. The body being thus extended, the principal bones became prominent, and easily discernible.


 
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