Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
Psalms 22:12
Many bulls, numerous and dangerous enemies, have compassed Me; strong bulls of Bashan, the rich meadow country northeast of Gilead, have beset Me round, threatening Him from all sides.
Many bulls, numerous and dangerous enemies, have compassed Me; strong bulls of Bashan, the rich meadow country northeast of Gilead, have beset Me round, threatening Him from all sides.
Verse Psalms 22:12. _MANY BULLS HAVE COMPASSED ME_] The _bull_ is the emblem of brutal strength, that gores and tramples down all before it. Such was Absalom, Ahithophel, and others, who rose up in re...
MANY BULLS HAVE COMPASSED ME - Men with the fierceness and fury of bulls. Compare Isaiah 51:20; Psalms 68:30. STRONG BULLS OF BASHAN - The country of Bashan embraced the territory which was on the eas...
Psalms 22 The Sufferings of Christ and the Glory That Follows _ 1. The suffering (Psalms 22:1)_ 2. The glory (Psalms 22:22) P
XXII. This Ps. (p. 372) consists of two parts. In Psalms 22:1 a godly man in deep and manifold distress complains that the God of his fathers, the God who has been with him from the beginning, has des...
The Psalmist pleads for help with intenser earnestness. The virulence of his foes increases. Strength and endurance are exhausted....
He compares his insolent enemies to wanton bulls, which "are in the habit of gathering in a circle round any novel or unaccustomed object, and may easily be irritated into charging with their horns" ...
DISCOURSE: 527 THE SUFFERINGS OF CHRIST Psalms 22:11. Be not far from me, for trouble is near; for there is none to help. Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round. They...
MANY BULLS—OF BASHAN— By the strong and fierce _bulls of Bashan,_ which was the richest soil in Palestine, are represented the haughty senators, the chief-priests, the Scribes, the Pharisees, and the...
PSALMS 22 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE The Voice of a Forsaken SuffererLoudly Lamenting his Lot, Minutely Describing his Pain and Shame, without Reproaching God or Accusing Himselfis Suddenly Silenced (in Deat...
_MANY BULLS HAVE COMPASSED ME: STRONG BULLS OF BASHAN HAVE BESET ME ROUND._ Many bulls - implying the strength and violence of His enemies, while he was as the gentle and weak 'hind' (title). STRONG...
22:12 Many (d-1) Or 'Great.'...
The Ps. has two sections, in the first of which (Psalms 22:1) the writer earnestly seeks God's help in a time of extreme trouble, while in the second (Psalms 22:22) he breaks into a song of thanksgivi...
BULLS.. STRONG _bulls_ OF BASHAN] suggesting the strength and aggressive rage of the Psalmist's enemies. Bashan was the N. part of the region E. of the Jordan, and was a rich pasture land....
Psalms 1:41 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ Words in boxes are from the Bible. The notes explain some of the words with a *star by them. Tap the * before a word to show an explanation. The translated Bible tex...
BULLS OF BASHAN. — For “Bashan” see Numbers 21:33; for its pastures and cattle, comp. Deuteronomy 32:14, and for the figures, Amos 4:1. Instead of “fat bulls,” the LXX. and Vulgate paraphrase “strong...
_[Psalms 22:13]_ סְ֭בָבוּנִי פָּרִ֣ים רַבִּ֑ים אַבִּירֵ֖י בָשָׁ֣ן
Psalms 22:1 WHO is the sufferer whose wail is the very voice of desolation and despair, and who yet dares to believe that the tale of his sorrow will be a gospel for the world? The usual answers are g...
THE CRY OF THE FORSAKEN Psalms 22:1 The Hebrew inscription of this exquisite ode is, “The hind of the morning.” The hind is the emblem of loveliness; see Song of Solomon 2:7; Song of Solomon 2:9.
Whatever may have been the local conditions creating this psalm, it has become so perfectly and properly associated with the one Son of God that it is almost impossible to read it in any other way. Th...
Many bulls have compassed me: strong (g) [bulls] of Bashan have beset me round. (g) He means that his enemies were so fat, proud and cruel that they were more like beasts than men....
It would be a loss of time to continually remark, how impossible it is to preserve any kind of consistency in those scriptures, by keeping up the recollection of David, King of Israel, as being at all...
Psalms 22 _ Proper Psalm for Good Friday_ (_Morning_). PSALMS 22, 23 = _ Day 4_ (_Evening_)....
12._Strong bulls have encompassed me. _The Psalmist now complains of the cruelty and barbarous rage of his enemies; and he compares them first to bulls, secondly to lions, and thirdly to dogs. When th...
Here the sufferings of Christ have another and deeper character. We have before us that great work which is the foundation of all the blessing developed in the other psalms, and of every blessing and...
MANY BULLS HAVE COMPASSED ME,.... By whom are meant the chief priests, elders, Scribes, and Pharisees, among the Jews, and Herod and Pontius Pilate among the Gentiles, comparable to bulls for their fi...
Many bulls have compassed me: strong [bulls] of Bashan have beset me round. Ver. 12. _Many bulls have compassed me_] Young bulls, which noteth their lustiness and courage. _Tauri bene saginati et pet...
_Be not far from me_ As to affection and succour; _for trouble is near_ At hand, and ready to swallow me up; _for there is none to help_ Thy help therefore will be the more seasonable, because it is m...
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, tho...
BULLS; wicked, and violent, and potent enemies; for such are so called, EZEKIEL 39:18 AMOS 4:1. STRONG BULLS OF BASHAN, i.e. fat and lusty, as the cattle there bred were, Deuteronomy 3:13,...
Psalms 22:12 Many H7227 bulls H6499 surrounded H5437 (H8804) Strong H47 Bashan H1316 encircled H3803 (H8765)...
THE SUFFERER'S PRAYER FOR DELIVERANCE AND PROVIDES A DESCRIPTION OF HIS PREDICAMENT (PSALMS 22:11). That we are to see some of these descriptions as figurative comes out in Psalms 22:21 where the psal...
‘Many bulls have surrounded me, strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round. They gape at Me with their mouth, like a ravening and a roaring lion.' He knew what had brought Him there. During His last d...
You will not need any comment on this Psalm if, while we read it, you see Christ on the cross, and you think that you hear him uttering these sacred words. This Psalm is dedicated» to the Chief Musici...
This Psalm is a sort of window, through which we can look into the heart of our crucified Saviour. We see all the external part of the crucifixion through the four windows of the Gospels; but this 22...
This Psalm is headed, «To the chief Musician upon Aijeleth Shahar,» or, as the margin renders it, «the hind of the morning,» «A Psalm of David,» It begins in the very depths of the Master's sorrow, wh...
This Psalm so sweetly and so accurately pictures the inward griefs of our Divine Saviour that it might have been written after the crucifixion rather than so many hundreds of years before it. I call y...
Stand and look up at Christ upon the cross, and look upon these words, as his. He himself is the best exposition of this wondrous psalm. Psalms 22:1. _My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why a...
This marvellous Psalm is a wonderful prophecy, which might seem as if it had been composed after the suffering of our Lord; yet it was written many hundreds of years before his incarnation and death....
CONTENTS: David in great perplexity cries for help. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: Trouble and perplexity drive us to earnest prayer and earnest prayer drives away trouble and perplexity. To fa...
Psalms 22:1. _My God, my God._ The LXX, Ο Θεος ο Θεος μου. The Chaldaic is like the English. The Hebrew forms the superlative degree by repetition. Example: “The heaven, and the heaven of heavens cann...
_My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me?_ THE PROPHETIC IMAGE OF THE PRINCE OF SUFFERERS Who is the sufferer whose wail is the very voice of desolation and despair, and who yet dares to believe th...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 22:1. This psalm appears to be an individual lament. The singer has been attacked by unscrupulous people and mocked by those who should feel sympathy. Nevertheless, he looks...
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 22:12 The singer’s enemies are bent on evil like BULLS (v. Psalms 22:12), a LION (v....
INTRODUCTION “The subject of this psalm is the deliverance of a righteous sufferer from his enemies, and the effect of this deliverance on others. It is so framed as to be applied without violence to...
EXPOSITION THERE is no psalm which has raised so much controversy as this. Admitted to be Messianic by the early Hebrew commentators, it is by some understood wholly of David; by others, applied to th...
Psa 22:1-31 is one of those prophetic psalms which stands out probably among all of the Messianic psalms. This psalm is again a psalm of David, and it is a very graphic description of death by crucifi...
Acts 4:27; Amos 4:1; Deuteronomy 32:14; Deuteronomy 32:15; Ezekiel
Bulls — Wicked and violent, and potent enemies; for such are so called, Ezekiel 39:18; Amos 4:1. Of Bashan — As the cattle there bred were, and therefore fierce and furious....