Psalm 22:16
For dogs surround me; a band of evil men encircles me; they have pierced my hands and feet.
Note DSS, LXX, Vulgate, and Syriac; most MT like a lion at my hands and feet
For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.
For dogs have surrounded me. A company of evildoers have enclosed me. They have pierced my hands and feet.
Note So Dead Sea Scrolls. Masoretic Text reads, “Like a lion, they pin my hands and feet.”
For dogs have compassed me: A company of evil-doers have inclosed me; They pierced my hands and my feet.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- dogs
- Psalm 22:1; Psalm 22:20; Psalm 59:6, 14; Matthew 7:6; Philippians 3:2; Revelation 22:15
- compassed
- Luke 11:53, 54
- assembly
- Psalm 86:14; Jeremiah 12:6; Matthew 26:57; Mark 15:16–20; Luke 22:63–71; Luke 23:4, 5, 10, 11; Luke 23:23
- they pierced
- The textual reading is {kaäri,} "as a lion my hands and feet;" but several MSS., read {kâroo,} and others {karoo} in the margin, which affords the reading adopted by our translators. So the LXX. [oryxan cheiras mou kai podas,] so also the Vulgate, Syriac, Arabic, and Ethiopic; and as all the Evangelists so quote the passage, and apply it to the crucifixion of Christ, there seems scarcely the shadow of a doubt that this is the genuine reading; especially when it is considered, that the other contains no sense at all. The whole difference lies between [vâv] {wav} and [yôwd,] {yood,} which might easily be mistaken for each other.
- Zechariah 12:10; Matthew 27:35; Mark 15:24; Luke 23:33; John 19:23, 37; John 20:25, 27