the Week of Proper 25 / Ordinary 30
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Psalms 22:20
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Save me from the sword; spare my precious life from these dogs.
Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog;
Deliver my soul from the sword, My darling from the power of the dog.
Save me from the sword; save my life from the dogs.
Deliver me from the sword! Save my life from the claws of the wild dogs!
Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog.
Deliver my soul from the sword, My precious life from the power of the dog.
Rescue my life from the sword, My only life from the paw of the dog (the executioner).
Deliver my soul from the sword, my precious life from the power of the dog!
God, delyuere thou my lijf fro swerd; and delyuere thou myn oon aloone fro the hond of the dogge.
Deliver my soul from the sword, my precious life from the power of wild dogs.
Rescue me from enemy swords and save me from those dogs.
Deliver my soul from the sword, My darling from the power of the dog.
Make my soul safe from the sword, my life from the power of the dog.
But you, Adonai , don't stay far away! My strength, come quickly to help me!
Deliver my soul from the sword; my only one from the power of the dog;
Save me from the sword. Save my precious life from these dogs.
But Thou, O LORD, be not far off; O Thou my strength, hasten to help me.
Deliuer my soule from the sword: my darling from the power of the dogge.
Take me away from the sword. Save my life from the power of the dog.
Deliver my soul from the sword, my life from the power of the dog!
Deliuer my soule from the sword: my desolate soule from the power of the dogge.
Deliver my soul from the sword, my only one from the hand of the vicious.
Save me from the sword; save my life from these dogs.
Rescue, from the sword, my life, from the power of the dog, my solitary self:
(21-21) Deliver, O God, my soul from the sword: my only one from the hand of the dog.
Deliver my soul from the sword, my life from the power of the dog!
Delyuer my soule from the sworde: and my dearlyng from the dogges pawes.
Deliver my soul from the sword; my only-begotten one from the power of the dog.
Rescue my life from the sword,my only life from the power of these dogs.
Deliver my soul from the sword, My precious life from the power of the dog.
Rescue my life from the sword, my only life from the power of the dogs.
Deliver My soul from the sword, My only one from the paw of the dog.
Deliver from the sword my soul, From the paw of a dog mine only one.
Delyuer my soule from the swearde, my dearlinge from the power of the dogge.
Save my soul from the sword, My only life from the power of the dog.
Deliver Me from the sword, My precious life from the power of the dog.
Deliver my soul from the sword, My only life from the power of the dog.
Deliver my soul from the sword,My only life from the power of the dog.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
soul: Psalms 17:13, Zechariah 13:7
my darling: etc. Heb. my only one from the hand, Psalms 35:17
the dog: Psalms 22:16
Reciprocal: 2 Kings 8:13 - a dog Psalms 6:4 - deliver Psalms 25:20 - O Psalms 116:4 - O Lord Ephesians 1:6 - in
Cross-References
And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abram's wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah.
And the servant took ten camels of the camels of his master, and departed; for all the goods of his master were in his hand: and he arose, and went to Mesopotamia, unto the city of Nahor.
And it came to pass, before he had done speaking, that, behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel, son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, with her pitcher upon her shoulder.
And she said unto him, I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, which she bare unto Nahor.
The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge betwixt us. And Jacob sware by the fear of his father Isaac.
As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Deliver my soul from the sword,.... Wicked men, whose tongues were as a sharp sword, reproaching and blaspheming him, and bearing false witness against him; and crying out, "Crucify him, crucify him",
Luke 23:21; see Psalms 17:12; or any instrument of violence, as the iron bar with which the legs of the malefactors crucified with him were broken, which he escaped; and the spear which pierced his side, after he had commended his soul or spirit into the hands of his Father; or a violent death; for though his death had the appearance of one, he was taken in a violent manner, and condemned to be put to death, and was crucified, yet his life was not taken away by men; he laid it down, and gave up his breath himself;
my darling from the power of the dog, or "my only one" i; meaning his life or soul, as before; so called, not because there is but one soul in the body, but because it was dear and valuable to him; and hence we render it "darling", an only one being usually the darling of its parents; so a man's life is dear to him, all that he has will he give for it, Job 2:4. Christ's life was a more precious life than any man's, and peculiarly his own, in such sense as another man's, is not his own; and his soul also was an only one, it was not polluted with original sin, as the souls of other men are; it was pure and holy: the word here used is sometimes rendered "desolate" and "solitary"; see
Psalms 25:16; and it may have this sense here, and be translated "my lonely" or "solitary one" k; he being forsaken by God, and deserted by his disciples; his soul was in darkness, sorrow, and distress, wherefore he prays it might be delivered "from the power of the dog"; either Satan is so called for his malice and envy, who had put it into the heart of Judas to betray him, and had filled the Pharisees with envy at him, and who through it delivered him to Pilate; or the impure, cruel, and wicked Roman soldiers, and in short all his crucifiers; called in the plural number "dogs", Psalms 25:16- :.
i יחייתד "unicam meam", V. L. Pagninus, Montanus, Vatablus, Tiguriue version, Cocceius, Junius Tremellius. k "Solitariam meam", Piscator, Gejerus, Michaelis so Ainsworth.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Deliver my soul from the sword - The word soul here means life, and denotes a living person. It is equivalent to “deliver me.” “The sword” is used to denote an instrument of death, or anything that pierces like a sword. Compare 2 Samuel 11:24-25. As applied to the Saviour here, it may mean those extreme mental sufferings that were like the piercing of a sword.
My darling - Margin, “my only one.” Prof. Alexander, “my lonely one.” DeWette, my life. The Hebrew word - יחיד yâchı̂yd - means “one alone, only,” as of an only child; then one alone, as forsaken, solitary, wretched, Psalms 25:16; Psalms 68:6; then it means one only, the only one, in the sense of “most dear, darling.” Here, according to Gesenius (Lexicon), it is used poetically for life, as being something most dear, or as denoting all that we have, and, therefore, most precious. Compare Job 2:4. This is the most probable interpretation here, as it would thus correspond with the expression in the first part of the verse, “deliver my soul.”
From the power of the dog - Margin, as in Hebrew, from the hand. The enemy is represented, as in Psalms 22:16, as a “dog” (see the notes on that verse); and then that enemy is spoken of as inflicting death by his hand. There is a little incongruity in speaking of a “dog” as having hands, but the image before the mind is that of the enemy with the character of a dog, and thus there is no impropriety in using in reference to him the language which is commonly applied to a man.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 22:20. Deliver my soul from the sword — Deliver נפשי naphshi, my life; save me alive, or raise me again.
My darling — יחידתי yechidathi, my only one. The only human being that was ever produced since the creation, even by the power of God himself, without the agency of man. ADAM the first was created out of the dust of the earth; that was his mother; God was the framer. ADAM the second was produced in the womb of the virgin; that was his mother. But that which was conceived in her was by the power of the Holy Ghost; hence the man Christ Jesus is the ONLY Son of God; God is his Father, and he is his ONLY ONE.
