Psalm 22:12 “Many bulls surround me; strong bulls of Bashan encircle me.”

Psalm 22:12

Many bulls surround me; strong bulls of Bashan encircle me.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.

World English Bible

Many bulls have surrounded me. Strong bulls of Bashan have encircled me.

American Standard Version

Many bulls have compassed me; Strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.

Geneva Bible 1599

Many yong bulles haue compassed me: mightie bulles of Bashan haue closed me about.

Darby Translation

Many bulls have encompassed me; Bashan's strong ones have beset me round.

Young's Literal Translation

Many bulls have surrounded me, Mighty ones of Bashan have compassed me,

Bible in Basic English

A great herd of oxen is round me: I am shut in by the strong oxen of Bashan.

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Cross references

“Many”

Psalm 68:30 Jeremiah 50:11

Psalm 68:30 · BSB

Rebuke the beast in the reeds, the herd of bulls among the calves of the nations, until it submits, bringing bars of silver. Scatter the nations who delight in war.

Jeremiah 50:11 · BSB

“Because you rejoice, because you sing in triumph— you who plunder My inheritance— because you frolic like a heifer treading grain and neigh like stallions,

“strong”

Amos 4:1–3 Acts 4:27 Matthew 27:1 Ezekiel 39:18 Isaiah 34:7 Deuteronomy 32:14

Amos 4:1–3 · BSB

Hear this word, you cows of Bashan on Mount Samaria, you women who oppress the poor and crush the needy, who say to your husbands, “Bring us more to drink.”

Acts 4:27 · BSB

In fact, this is the very city where Herod and Pontius Pilate conspired with the Gentiles and the people of Israel against Your holy servant Jesus, whom You anointed.

Matthew 27:1 · BSB

When morning came, all the chief priests and elders of the people conspired against Jesus to put Him to death.

Ezekiel 39:18 · BSB

You will eat the flesh of the mighty and drink the blood of the princes of the earth as though they were rams, lambs, goats, and bulls—all the fattened animals of Bashan.

Isaiah 34:7 · BSB

And the wild oxen will fall with them, the young bulls with the strong ones. Their land will be drenched with blood, and their soil will be soaked with fat.

Deuteronomy 32:14 · BSB

with curds from the herd and milk from the flock, with the fat of lambs, with rams from Bashan, and goats, with the choicest grains of wheat. From the juice of the finest grapes you drank the wine.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

11Be not far from me, for trouble is near and there is no one to help.

13They open their jaws against me like lions that roar and maul.

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