New Living Translation
Psalms 22:7
7Everyone who sees me mocks me. They sneer and shake their heads, saying,
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 out to you and were saved. They trusted in you and were never disgraced. 6But I am a worm and not a man. I am scorned and despised by all! Everyone who sees me mocks me. They sneer and shake their heads, saying, 8“Is this the one who relies on the Lord? Then let the Lord save him! If the Lord loves him so much, let the Lord rescue him!” 9Yet you brought me safely from my mother’s womb and led me to trust you at my mother’s breast.
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 35:15But they are glad now that I am in trouble; they gleefully join together against me. I am attacked by people I don’t even know; they slander me constantly.
- Matthew 9:24“Get out!” he told them. “The girl isn’t dead; she’s only asleep.” But the crowd laughed at him.
- Matthew 27:29They wove thorn branches into a crown and put it on his head, and they placed a reed stick in his right hand as a scepter. Then they knelt before him in mockery and taunted, “Hail! King of the Jews!”
- Mark 15:20When they were finally tired of mocking him, they took off the purple robe and put his own clothes on him again. Then they led him away to be crucified.
- Luke 16:14The Pharisees, who dearly loved their money, heard all this and scoffed at him.
- Luke 23:11Then Herod and his soldiers began mocking and ridiculing Jesus. Finally, they put a royal robe on him and sent him back to Pilate.
- Psalms 31:18Silence their lying lips— those proud and arrogant lips that accuse the godly.
- Job 16:4I could say the same things if you were in my place. I could spout off criticism and shake my head at you.
- Job 30:9“And now they mock me with vulgar songs! They taunt me!
- Isaiah 57:4Whom do you mock, making faces and sticking out your tongues? You children of sinners and liars!
- Matthew 26:66What is your verdict?” “Guilty!” they shouted. “He deserves to die!”
- Psalms 44:14You have made us the butt of their jokes; they shake their heads at us in scorn.
- Psalms 109:25I am a joke to people everywhere; when they see me, they shake their heads in scorn.
- Isaiah 37:22the Lord has spoken this word against him: “The virgin daughter of Zion despises you and laughs at you. The daughter of Jerusalem shakes her head in derision as you flee.
- Matthew 27:39The people passing by shouted abuse, shaking their heads in mockery.
- Mark 11:29“I’ll tell you by what authority I do these things if you answer one question,” Jesus replied.
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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