God’s Word Translation
Psalms 22:7
7All who see me make fun of me. Insults pour from their mouths. They shake their heads and say,
Psalms 22:7 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,
- New International Version (NIV)All who see me mock me; they hurl insults, shaking their heads.
- English Standard Version (ESV)All who see me mock me; they make mouths at me; they wag their heads;
- New King James Version (NKJV)All those who see Me ridicule Me; They shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,
Context of Psalms 22:7
5They cried to you and were saved. They trusted you and were never disappointed. 6Yet, I am a worm and not a man. I am scorned by humanity and despised by people. All who see me make fun of me. Insults pour from their mouths. They shake their heads and say, 8“Put yourself in the Lord’s hands. Let the Lord save him! Let God rescue him since he is pleased with him!” 9Indeed, you are the one who brought me out of the womb, the one who made me feel safe at my mother’s breasts.
Read all of Psalms 22Psalms 22:7 word by word
כָּל־רֹ֭אַי יַלְעִ֣גוּ לִ֑י יַפְטִ֥ירוּ בְ֝שָׂפָ֗ה יָנִ֥יעוּ רֹֽאשׁ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 22:7
- Psalms 35:15Yet, when I stumbled, they rejoiced and gathered together. They gathered together against me. Unknown attackers tore me apart without stopping.
- Matthew 9:24He said to them, “Leave! The girl is not dead. She’s sleeping.” But they laughed at him.
- Matthew 27:29They twisted some thorns into a crown, placed it on his head, and put a stick in his right hand. They knelt in front of him and made fun of him by saying, “Long live the king of the Jews!”
- Mark 15:20After the soldiers finished making fun of Jesus, they took off the purple cape and put his own clothes back on him. Then they led him out to crucify him.
- Luke 16:14The Pharisees, who love money, heard all this and were making sarcastic remarks about him.
- Luke 23:11Herod and his soldiers treated Jesus with contempt and made fun of him. They put a colorful robe on him and sent him back to Pilate.
- Psalms 31:18Let ⌞their⌟ lying lips be speechless, since they speak against righteous people with arrogance and contempt.
- Job 16:4I, too, could speak like you if we could trade places. I could string words together against you and shake my head at you.
- Job 30:9“And now they make fun of me with songs. I have become a joke to them.
- Isaiah 57:4Whom are you making fun of? Whom are you making a face at? Whom are you sticking out your tongue at? Aren’t you rebellious children, descendants of liars?
- Matthew 26:66What’s your verdict?” They answered, “He deserves the death penalty!”
- Psalms 44:14You made our ⌞defeat⌟ a proverb among the nations so that people shake their heads at us.
- Psalms 109:25I have become the victim of my enemies’ insults. They look at me and shake their heads.
- Isaiah 37:22This is the message that the Lord speaks to him, ‘My dear people in Zion despise you and laugh at you. My people in Jerusalem shake their heads behind your back.
- Matthew 27:39Those who passed by insulted him. They shook their heads
- Mark 11:29Jesus said to them, “I’ll ask you a question. Answer me, and then I’ll tell you why I have the right to do these things.
Commentaries on Psalms 22:7
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 7Laugh me to scorn - They utterly despised me; set me at naught; treated me with the utmost contempt. Laugh to scorn is so completely antiquated that it should be no longer used; derided, despised, treated with contempt, are much more expressive and are still in common use. They shoot out the lip, they shake the head - This is applied by St. Matthew, to the conduct of the Jews towards our Lord, when he hung upon the cross; as is also the following verse…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 7All they that see me laugh me to scorn - They deride or mock me. On the word used here - לעג lâ‛ag - see the notes at Psalm 2:4. The meaning here is to mock, to deride, to treat with scorn. The idea of laughing is not properly in the word, nor would that necessarily occur in the treatment here referred to. How completely this was fulfilled in the case of the Saviour, it is not necessary to say. Compare Matthew 27:39, “And they that passed by, reviled…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 7People ridicule the psalmist's trust in the Lord (see Psalm 3:2; Matthew 27:43), which shames him (Psalms 44:13–14; 74:10; 89:50; 109:25).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 7-87-8. For the Jews used one of the gestures (Mt 27:39) here mentioned, when taunting Him on the cross, and (Mt 27:43) reproached Him almost in the very, language of this passage. shoot out--or, "open." the lip--(Compare Psa 35:21).Read the comment
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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
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