the Week of Proper 10 / Ordinary 15
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Psalms 22:21
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Save me from the lion’s mouth,from the horns of wild oxen.You answered me!
Save me from the lion's mouth; Yes, from the horns of the wild oxen you have answered me.
Save me from the lion's mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns.
Save me from the mouth of the lion! You have rescued me from the horns of the wild oxen!
Rescue me from the lion's mouth; save me from the horns of the bulls.
Rescue me from the mouth of the lion, and from the horns of the wild oxen! You have answered me!
Save me from the lion's mouth; From the horns of the wild oxen You answer me.
Save me from the lion's mouth; From the horns of the wild oxen You answer me.
Save me from the lion's mouth; Yes, from the horns of the wild oxen you have answered me.
Saue me from the lyons mouth, and answere me in sauing me from the hornes of the vnicornes.
Save me from the mouth of the lion;From the horns of the wild oxen You have answered me.
Save me from the mouth of the lion; at the horns of the wild oxen You have answered Me!
Don't let lions eat me. You rescued me from the horns of wild bulls,
Rescue me from the sword, my life from the power of the dogs.
Save me from the lion's mouth. Yea, from the horns of the buffaloes hast thou answered me.
Rescue me from the lion's mouth. Protect me from the horns of the bulls.
Save me from the lions mouth; save my meekness from the haughty,
Rescue me from these lions; I am helpless before these wild bulls.
Save me from the mouth of the lion, and from the horns of the wild oxen answer me.
Save Me from the lion's mouth; and from the horns of the wild oxen. You have answered Me.
Saue me from the lyons mouth, and heare me fro amonge the hornes off the vnicornes.
Save me from the lion's mouth; Yea, from the horns of the wild-oxen thou hast answered me.
Be my saviour from the lion's mouth; let me go free from the horns of the cruel oxen.
Deliver my soul from the sword; mine only one from the power of the dog.
Saue me from the lyons mouth: for thou hast heard me from the hornes of the vnicornes.
Save me from the lion’s mouth; and regard my lowliness from the horns of the unicorns.
Save me from the lion's mouth; yea, from the horns of the wild-oxen thou hast answered me.
Make thou me saaf fro the mouth of a lioun; and my mekenesse fro the hornes of vnycornes.
Save me from the lion's mouth; Yes, from the horns of the wild-oxen you have answered me.
Save me from the lion's mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns.
Save Me from the lion's mouth And from the horns of the wild oxen! You have answered Me.
Snatch me from the lion's jaws and from the horns of these wild oxen.
Save me from the lion's mouth, and from the horns of the wild bulls You answer me.
Save me from the mouth of the lion! From the horns of the wild oxen you have rescued me.
Save me from the mouth of the lion, - Yea, from the horns of wild beasts, hast thou delivered me.
(21-22) Save me from the lion’s mouth; and my lowness from the horns of the unicorns.
Save me from the mouth of the lion, my afflicted soul from the horns of the wild oxen!
Save me from the mouth of a lion: -- And -- from the horns of the high places Thou hast answered me!
Save me from the lion's mouth; From the horns of the wild oxen You answer me.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
me from: Luke 22:53, John 14:30, 2 Timothy 4:17, 1 Peter 5:8
horns: Numbers 23:22, Deuteronomy 33:17, Job 39:9, Job 39:10, Isaiah 34:7, John 8:59, Acts 4:27, Acts 5:30-32
Reciprocal: Leviticus 1:15 - wring off his head Psalms 22:13 - as a Psalms 25:20 - O Psalms 35:17 - rescue Psalms 118:25 - Save Psalms 142:7 - the righteous Zechariah 11:3 - a voice Luke 10:3 - I send Hebrews 5:7 - and Revelation 13:2 - and his mouth
Cross-References
After these sayinges, god did tempt Abraham, and sayde vnto him Abraham. Which answered, here I am.
And he sayde: lay not thy hande vpon the chylde, neyther do any thyng vnto hym, for nowe I knowe that thou fearest God, & hast for my sake not spared [yea] thine onlye sonne.
And the seruaunt toke ten Camelles of the Camelles of his maister, & departed (& had of al maner of goods of his maister with him) and so he arose & went to Mesopotamia, vnto ye citie of Nachor.
And he toke vp his parable, and sayd: Balac the king of Moab hath brought me fro Mesopotamia, out of the mountaynes of the east, [saying] Come, curse Iacob for my sake, come and defie Israel.
In the lande of Hus there was a man whose name was Iob, & the same was a perfect and iust man, one that feared God and eschued euill.
But Elihu the sonne of Barachel the Buzite, of the kinred of Ram, was very sore displeased at Iob, because he called hym selfe iust before God.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Save me from the lion's mouth,.... Either the devil, who is as a roaring lion, whom Christ overcame both in the garden and on the cross, and destroyed him and his works; or all his wicked enemies, especially the most powerful of them, who were in greatest authority, as the chief priests and elders; so rulers and civil magistrates, who are cruel and unmerciful, are compared to lions, Proverbs 28:15;
for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns; some read this as a prayer like the former, "hear thou me" l, c. that is, deliver me but according to our version it expresses what God had done, that he had heard him and saved him; and is used as a reason or argument with him that he would regard also his other petitions: or it may have respect to what follows, that since God had heard him, and delivered him out of the hands of his most powerful enemies, therefore he would declare his name and praise him; for the unicorn being a very strong creature, and its strength lying much in its horn, with which it pushes and does mischief; see Numbers 23:22. Christ's strong and potent enemies are intended here; such as Satan and his principalities and powers, the sanhedrim of the Jews, Herod, Pontius Pilate, and others, from whose power he was freed when raised from the dead. According to Pliny m, the monoceros, or unicorn, is the fiercest of wild beasts; in its body like a horse, it has the head of an hart and feet of an elephant, the tail of a bear, makes a great bellowing; has one black horn rising up in the middle of the forehead, of two cubits long; it is denied that it was ever taken alive, which agrees with Job 39:9;
Job 39:9- : and
Job 39:9- :.
l ×¢× ××ª× × "exaudi me", Muis, Gejerus, Michaelis. m Nat. Hist. l. 8. c. 21.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Save me from the lionâs mouth - His enemies represented as fierce and ravening lions, compare Psalms 22:13,
For thou hast heard me - The word âheardâ in this place is equivalent to âsavedâ - or saved in answer to prayer. The fact of âhearingâ the prayer, and answering it, is regarded as so identical, or the one as so certainly following from the other, that they may be spoken of as the same thing.
From the horns of the unicorns - The idea here is, that he cried to God when exposed to what is here called âthe horns of the unicorns.â That is, when surrounded by enemies as fierce and violent as wild beasts - as if he were among âunicornsâ seeking his life - he had called upon God, and God had heard him. This would refer to some former period of his life, when surrounded by dangers, or exposed to the attacks of wicked men, and when he had called upon God, and had been heard. There were not a few occasions alike in the life of David and in the life of the Saviour, to which this would be applicable. The fact that he had thus been delivered from danger, is now urged as an argument why God was to be regarded as able to deliver him again, and why the prayer might be offered that he would do it; compare Psalms 22:9-11. To see the force of this it is not necessary to be able to determine with accuracy what is meant here by the word rendered unicorn, or whether the psalmist referred to the animal now denoted by that term. The existence of such an animal was long regarded as fabulous; but though it has been proved that there is such an animal, it is not necessary to suppose that the psalmist referred to it. Gesenius renders the word - ר×× re'eÌm - âbuffaloâ (Lexicon) So also DeWette. See the notes at Job 39:9-10, where the meaning of the word is fully considered. The word occurs elsewhere only in Numbers 23:22; Numbers 24:8; Deuteronomy 33:17; Psalms 29:6; Psalms 92:10; Isaiah 34:7, in all which places it is rendered âunicorn,â or âunicorns.â
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 22:21. Save me from the lion's mouth — Probably our Lord here includes his Church with himself. The lion may then mean the Jews; the unicorns, ר××× remin (probably the rhinoceros,) the Gentiles. For the unicorn, Numbers 23:22. There is no quadruped or land animal with one horn only, except the rhinoceros; but there is a marine animal, the narwhal or monodon, a species of whale, that has a very fine curled ivory horn, which projects from its snout. One in my own museum measures seven feet four inches, and is very beautiful. Some of these animals have struck their horn through the side of a ship; and with it they easily transfix the whale, or any such animal. The old Psalter says, "The unicorn es ane of the prudest best that es, so that he wil dye for dedeyn if he be haldyn ogayn his wil."
