Psalms 22:21

Psalms 22:21 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Save me from the lion’s mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns.
• New International Version (NIV)Rescue me from the mouth of the lions; save me from the horns of the wild oxen.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Save me from the mouth of the lion! You have rescued me from the horns of the wild oxen!
• New King James Version (NKJV)Save Me from the lion’s mouth And from the horns of the wild oxen! You have answered Me.

Context of Psalms 22:21

19But be not thou far off, O Jehovah: O thou my succor, haste thee to help me. 20Deliver my soul from the sword, My darling from the power of the dog. Save me from the lion’s mouth; Yea, from the horns of the wild-oxen thou hast answered me. 22I will declare thy name unto my brethren: In the midst of the assembly will I praise thee. 23Ye that fear Jehovah, praise him; All ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him; And stand in awe of him, all ye the seed of Israel.

Psalms 22:21 word by word

ה֭וֹשִׁיעֵנִי מִפִּ֣י אַרְיֵ֑ה וּמִקַּרְנֵ֖י רֵמִ֣ים עֲנִיתָֽנִי׃Read the interlinear

Cross-references for Psalms 22:21

• Luke 22:53When I was daily with you in the temple, ye stretched not forth your hands against me: but this is your hour, and the power of darkness.
• John 14:30I will no more speak much with you, for the prince of the world cometh: and he hath nothing in me;
• 2 Timothy 4:17But the Lord stood by me, and strengthened me; that through me the message might be fully proclaimed, and that all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.
• 1 Peter 5:8Be sober, be watchful: your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
• Numbers 23:22God bringeth them forth out of Egypt; He hath as it were the strength of the wild-ox.
• Deuteronomy 33:17The firstling of his herd, majesty is his; And his horns are the horns of the wild-ox: With them he shall push the peoples all of them, eventhe ends of the earth: And they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, And they are the thousands of Manasseh.
• Job 30:9And now I am become their song, Yea, I am a byword unto them.
• Isaiah 34:7And the wild-oxen shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls: and their land shall be drunken with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.
• John 8:59They took up stones therefore to cast at him: but Jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple.
• Psalms 22:25Of thee cometh my praise in the great assembly: I will pay my vows before them that fear him.
• Psalms 40:9I have proclaimed glad tidings of righteousness in the great assembly; Lo, I will not refrain my lips, O Jehovah, thou knowest.

Commentaries on Psalms 22:21

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 21Save me from the lion's mouth - Probably our Lord here includes his Church with himself. The lion may then mean the Jews; the unicorns, רמים remim (probably the rhinoceros), the Gentiles. For the unicorn, see the note on Numbers 23:22. There is no quadruped or land animal with one horn only, except the rhinoceros; but there is a marine animal, the narwhal or monodon, a species of whale, that has a very fine curled ivory horn, which projects from its…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 21Save me from the lion‘s mouth - His enemies represented as fierce and ravening lions, compare Psalm 22:13, For thou hast heard me - The word “heard” in this place is equivalent to “saved” - or saved in answer to prayer. The fact of “hearing” the prayer, and answering it, is regarded as so identical, or the one as so certainly following from the other, that they may be spoken of as the same thing. From the horns of the unicorns - The idea here is, that he…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 11-21Verses 11-21 In these verses we have Christ suffering, and Christ praying; by which we are directed to look for crosses, and to look up to God under them. The very manner of Christ's death is described, though not in use among the Jews. They pierced his hands and his feet, which were nailed to the accursed tree, and his whole body was left so to hang as to suffer the most severe pain and torture. His natural force failed, being wasted by the fire of…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 19-21The psalmist prays to God for help with his troubles. Only the Lord can protect him from dogs, lions, and oxen.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2121. Deliverance pleaded in view of former help, when in the most imminent danger, from the most powerful enemy, represented by the unicorn or wild buffalo. the lion's mouth--(Compare Psa 22:13). The lion often used as a figure representing violent enemies; the connecting of the mouth intimates their rapacity.Read the comment

Topics related to Psalms 22:21

• Afflictions and Adversities
• Jesus Continued
• Persecution
• Unicorn (Wild Ox, Rsv)

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Commentaries on Psalms 22

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• The Treasury of David
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings