Psalms 22:7
All beholding me do mock at me, They make free with the lip — shake the head,
Young's Literal Translation
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
6And I [am] a worm, and no man, A reproach of man, and despised of the people.
8'Roll unto Jehovah, He doth deliver him, He doth deliver him, for he delighted in him.'
Cross References
Job 16:4I also, like you, might speak, If your soul were in my soul's stead. I might join against you with words, And nod at you with my head.
Job 30:9And now, their song I have been, And I am to them for a byword.
Psalms 35:15And — in my halting they have rejoiced, And have been gathered together, Gathered against me were the smiters, And I have not known, They have rent, and they have not ceased;
Psalms 109:25And I — I have been a reproach to them, They see me, they shake their head.
Isaiah 49:7Thus said Jehovah, Redeemer of Israel, His Holy One, To the despised in soul, To the abominated of a nation, To the servant of rulers: 'Kings see, and have risen, princes, and worship, For the sake of Jehovah, who is faithful, The Holy of Israel, and He chooseth thee.'
Isaiah 57:4Against whom do ye sport yourselves? Against whom enlarge ye the mouth? Prolong ye the tongue? Are not ye children of transgression? a false seed?
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 →