Psalms 22:7
All those who see me mock me. They insult me with their lips. They shake their heads, saying,
World English Bible British with Deuterocanon
In The King James Version
All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head saying,
In Context
6But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised by the people.
8“He trusts in the LORD. Let him deliver him. Let him rescue him, since he delights in him.”
Cross References
Job 16:4I also could speak as you do. If your soul were in my soul’s place, I could join words together against you, and shake my head at you,
Job 30:9“Now I have become their song. Yes, I am a byword to them.
Psalms 35:15But in my adversity, they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together. The attackers gathered themselves together against me, and I didn’t know it. They tore at me, and didn’t cease.
Psalms 109:25I have also become a reproach to them. When they see me, they shake their head.
Isaiah 49:7The LORD, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, says to him whom man despises, to him whom the nation abhors, to a servant of rulers: “Kings shall see and rise up, princes, and they shall worship, because of the LORD who is faithful, even the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.”
Isaiah 57:4Whom do you mock? Against whom do you make a wide mouth and stick out your tongue? Aren’t you children of disobedience and offspring of falsehood,
Matthew Henry on Psalms 22:2-11
Sorrowful Complaints. 1 My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring? 2 O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent. 3 But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel. 4 Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them. 5 They cried unto thee, and were delivered: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded. 6 But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men,… Read the whole commentary →