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New King James Version

Psalms 22:17

I can count all My bones. They look and stare at Me.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Jesus Continued;   Persecution;   The Topic Concordance - Jesus Christ;   Suffering;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Psalms, the Book of;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Psalms, book of;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Revelation, Theology of;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Aijeleth Shahar;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Animals;   Dog;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Aijeleth Hash-Shahar;   Atonement;   English Versions;   Greek Versions of Ot;   Psalms;   Sin;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Print ;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Cedron;   Naphtali;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Messiah;   Psalms the book of;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Prophecy;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Tale;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Dog;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
I can count all my bones;people look and stare at me.
Hebrew Names Version
I can count all of my bones. They look and stare at me.
King James Version
I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me.
English Standard Version
I can count all my bones— they stare and gloat over me;
New Century Version
I can count all my bones; people look and stare at me.
New English Translation
I can count all my bones; my enemies are gloating over me in triumph.
Amplified Bible
I can count all my bones; They look, they stare at me.
New American Standard Bible
I can count all my bones. They look, they stare at me;
World English Bible
I can count all of my bones. They look and stare at me.
Geneva Bible (1587)
I may tell all my bones: yet they beholde, and looke vpon me.
Legacy Standard Bible
I count all my bones.They look, they stare at me;
Berean Standard Bible
I can count all my bones; they stare and gloat over me.
Contemporary English Version
I can count all my bones, and my enemies just stare and sneer at me.
Complete Jewish Bible
Dogs are all around me, a pack of villains closes in on me like a lion [at] my hands and feet.
Darby Translation
I may count all my bones. They look, they stare upon me;
Easy-to-Read Version
I can see each one of my bones. My enemies are looking at me; they just keep staring.
George Lamsa Translation
My bones ached with pain; they looked and stared upon me.
Good News Translation
All my bones can be seen. My enemies look at me and stare.
Lexham English Bible
I can count all my bones; they gaze, they look at me.
Literal Translation
I count all My bones; they look, they stare at Me.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
They pearsed my hondes and my fete, I might haue tolde all my bones: as for them, they stode staringe and lokinge vpon me.
American Standard Version
I may count all my bones. They look and stare upon me;
Bible in Basic English
I am able to see all my bones; their looks are fixed on me:
JPS Old Testament (1917)
For dogs have encompassed me; a company of evil-doers have inclosed me; like a lion, they are at my hands and my feet.
King James Version (1611)
I may tell all my bones: they looke and stare vpon me.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
I may tell all my bones. They stande staring & gasing vpon me:
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
They counted all my bones; and they observed and looked upon me.
English Revised Version
I may tell all my bones; they look and stare upon me:
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
thei noumbriden alle my boonys. Sotheli thei lokiden, and bihelden me;
Update Bible Version
I may count all my bones; They look and stare on me.
Webster's Bible Translation
I may number all my bones: they look [and] stare upon me.
New Living Translation
I can count all my bones. My enemies stare at me and gloat.
New Life Bible
I can tell how many bones I have. The people look at me with wide eyes.
New Revised Standard
I can count all my bones. They stare and gloat over me;
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
I may tell all my bones, They, look for - they behold me!
Douay-Rheims Bible
(21-18) They have numbered all my bones. And they have looked and stared upon me.
Revised Standard Version
I can count all my bones--they stare and gloat over me;
Young's Literal Translation
I count all my bones -- they look expectingly, They look upon me,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
I can count all my bones. They look, they stare at me;

Contextual Overview

11 Be not far from Me, For trouble is near; For there is none to help. 12 Many bulls have surrounded Me; Strong bulls of Bashan have encircled Me. 13 They gape at Me with their mouths, Like a raging and roaring lion. 14 I am poured out like water, And all My bones are out of joint; My heart is like wax; It has melted within Me. 15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd, And My tongue clings to My jaws; You have brought Me to the dust of death. 16 For dogs have surrounded Me;The congregation of the wicked has enclosed Me.They pierced [fn] My hands and My feet; 17 I can count all My bones. They look and stare at Me. 18 They divide My garments among them, And for My clothing they cast lots. 19 But You, O LORD, do not be far from Me; O My Strength, hasten to help Me! 20 Deliver Me from the sword, My precious life from the power of the dog.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

I may: Psalms 102:3-5, Job 33:21, Isaiah 52:14

look: Matthew 27:36, Matthew 27:39-41, Mark 15:29-32, Luke 23:27, Luke 23:35

Reciprocal: Job 16:10 - gaped Psalms 22:14 - all Isaiah 45:22 - Look Isaiah 57:4 - draw Obadiah 1:12 - looked Obadiah 1:13 - looked Zechariah 12:10 - they shall look Mark 15:24 - crucified Mark 15:31 - also John 19:37 - They

Cross-References

Genesis 12:2
I will make you a great nation; I will bless you And make your name great; And you shall be a blessing.
Genesis 13:16
And I will make your descendants as the dust of the earth; so that if a man could number the dust of the earth, then your descendants also could be numbered.
Genesis 15:5
Then He brought him outside and said, "Look now toward heaven, and count the stars if you are able to number them." And He said to him, "So shall your descendants be."
Genesis 17:6
I will make you exceedingly fruitful; and I will make nations of you, and kings shall come from you.
Genesis 22:1
Hebrews 11:17-19">[xr] Now it came to pass after these things that God tested Abraham, and said to him, "Abraham!" And he said, "Here I am."
Genesis 22:2
Then He said, "Take now your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you."
Genesis 22:8
And Abraham said, "My son, God will provide for Himself the lamb for a burnt offering." So the two of them went together.
Genesis 22:9
Then they came to the place of which God had told him. And Abraham built an altar there and placed the wood in order; and he bound Isaac his son and laid him on the altar, upon the wood.
Genesis 22:10
And Abraham stretched out his hand and took the knife to slay his son.
Genesis 22:13
Then Abraham lifted his eyes and looked, and there behind him was a ram caught in a thicket by its horns. So Abraham went and took the ram, and offered it up for a burnt offering instead of his son.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

I may tell all my bones,.... For what with the stretching out of his body on the cross, when it was fastened to it as it lay on the ground, and with the jolt of the cross when, being reared up, it was fixed in the ground, and with the weight of the body hanging upon it, all his bones were disjointed and started out; so that, could he have seen them, he might have told them, as they might be told by the spectators who were around him; and so the Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, Arabic, and Ethiopic versions render it, "they have numbered all my bones"; that is, they might have done if: the Targum is, "I will number all the scars of my members", made by the blows, scourges, and wounds he received;

they look [and] stare upon me; meaning not his bones, but his enemies; which may be understood either by way of contempt, as many Jewish interpreters explain it: so the Scribes and elders of the people, and the people themselves, looked and stared at him on the cross, and mocked at him, and insulted him; or by way of rejoicing, saying, "Aha, aha, our eye hath seen", namely, what they desired and wished for,

Psalms 35:21; a sight as was enough to have moved an heart of stone made no impression on them; they had no sympathy with him, no compassion on him, but rejoiced at his misery: this staring agrees with their character as dogs.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I may tell all my bones - That is, I may count them. They are so prominent, so bare, that I can see them and count their number. The idea here is that of emaciation from continued suffering or from some other cause. As applied to the Redeemer, it would denote the effect of long protracted suffering and anxiety on his frame, as rendering it crushed, weakened, emaciated. Compare the notes at Isaiah 52:14; Isaiah 53:2-3. No one can prove that an effect such as is here referred to may not have been produced by the sufferings of the Redeemer.

They look and stare upon me - That is, either my bones - or, my enemies that stand around me. The most obvious construction would refer it to the former - to his bones - as if they stood out prominently and stared him in the face. Rosenmuller understands it in the latter sense, as meaning that his enemies gazed with wonder on such an object. Perhaps this, on the whole, furnishes the best interpretation, as there is something unnatural in speaking of a man’s own bones staring or gazing upon him, and as the image of his enemies standing and looking with wonder on one so wretched, so crushed, so broken, is a very striking one. This, too, will better agree with the statement in Isaiah 52:14, “Many were astonished at thee;” and Isaiah 53:2-3, “He hath no form nor comeliness, and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him;” “we hid, as it were, our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.” It accords also better with the statement in the following verse; “they,” that is, the same persons referred to, “part my garments amoung them.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 22:17. I may tell all my bones — This may refer to the violent extension of his body when the whole of its weight hung upon the nails which attached his hands to the transverse beam of the cross. The body being thus extended, the principal bones became prominent, and easily discernible.


 
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