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King James Version
Psalms 22:17
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I can count all my bones. My enemies stare at me and gloat.
I may tell all my bones; they look and stare upon me:
I may count all my bones; They look and stare on me.
I can count all my bones; people look and stare at me.
I can count all my bones; my enemies are gloating over me in triumph.
I may number all my bones: they look [and] stare upon me.
I can count all of my bones. They look and stare at me.
I can count all my bones; They look, they stare at me.
I can count all my bones— they stare and gloat over me;
thei noumbriden alle my boonys. Sotheli thei lokiden, and bihelden me;
I can count all my bones; they stare and gloat over me.
I can count all my bones, and my enemies just stare and sneer at me.
I may count all my bones. They look and stare upon me;
I am able to see all my bones; their looks are fixed on me:
Dogs are all around me, a pack of villains closes in on me like a lion [at] my hands and feet.
I may count all my bones. They look, they stare upon me;
I can see each one of my bones. My enemies are looking at me; they just keep staring.
For dogs have encompassed me; a company of evil-doers have inclosed me; like a lion, they are at my hands and my feet.
I may tell all my bones: they looke and stare vpon me.
I can tell how many bones I have. The people look at me with wide eyes.
I can count all my bones. They stare and gloat over me;
I may tell all my bones: yet they beholde, and looke vpon me.
My bones ached with pain; they looked and stared upon me.
All my bones can be seen. My enemies look at me and stare.
I may tell all my bones, They, look for - they behold me!
(21-18) They have numbered all my bones. And they have looked and stared upon me.
I can count all my bones--they stare and gloat over me;
I may tell all my bones. They stande staring & gasing vpon me:
They counted all my bones; and they observed and looked upon me.
I can count all my bones;people look and stare at me.
I can count all of my bones. They look and stare at me.
I can count all my bones; they gaze, they look at me.
I count all My bones; they look, they stare at Me.
I count all my bones -- they look expectingly, They look upon me,
They pearsed my hondes and my fete, I might haue tolde all my bones: as for them, they stode staringe and lokinge vpon me.
I can count all my bones. They look, they stare at me;
I can count all My bones. They look and stare at Me.
I can count all my bones. They look, they stare at me;
I count all my bones.They look, they stare at me;
Contextual Overview
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
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:
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.
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.
And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.
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.
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.
And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together.
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.
And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son.
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.
