ה֭וֹשִׁיעֵנִי מִפִּ֣י אַרְיֵ֑ה וּמִקַּרְנֵ֖י רֵמִ֣ים עֲנִיתָֽנִי
Save me from the lion's mouth; Yes, from the horns of the wild oxen you have answered me.
World English Bible · Public Domain
Save me from the lion's mouth; Yes, from the horns of the wild oxen you have answered me.
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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, and from the horns of wild oxen, answer me.
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Save me from the lion's mouth; Yes, 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!
Save me from the mouth of the lion; at 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; Yea, from the horns of the wild-oxen thou hast answered me.
Save me from the lion’s mouth; yea, from the horns of the wild-oxen thou hast answered me.
Saue me from the lyons mouth, and answere me in sauing me from the hornes of the vnicornes.
Deliver, O God, my soul from the sword: my only one from the hand of the dog.
Save me from the mouth of a lion: -- And -- from the horns of the high places Thou hast answered me!
Save Me from the mouth of a lion || And You have answered Me from the horns of the high places!
Save me from the lion's mouth; rescue me from the horns of the wild oxen.
Save me from the mouth of the lion, and from the horns of wild oxen, answer me.
Save me from the lion's mouth. Yea, from the horns of the buffaloes hast thou answered me.
Save me from the lion’s mouth! Yes, you have rescued me from the horns of the wild oxen.
\\22:20\\Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog.
Rescue me from the mouth of the lion and from the wild bulls!
Be my saviour from the lion's mouth; let me go free from the horns of the cruel oxen.
(22-22) Save me from the lion's mouth; yea, from the horns of the wild-oxen do Thou answer me.
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Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is רֵמִ֣ים aurochs H7214 — appearing just 9 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
רֵמִ֣ים aurochs H7214 occurs in 9 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
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Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 18 words from the Hebrew and 16 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.
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You’re reading Greek Psalm 21 (Hebrew Psalm 22). The Septuagint counts the superscription, so verse numbers can differ from the Hebrew — chapter-level alignment, not verse-by-verse. Numbering follows Rahlfs.
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ה֭וֹשִׁיעֵנִי מִפִּ֣י אַרְיֵ֑ה וּמִקַּרְנֵ֖י רֵמִ֣ים עֲנִיתָֽנִי
Save me from the lion's mouth; Yes, from the horns of the wild oxen you have answered me.
World English Bible · Public Domain
ῥύομαι ἀπό ῥομφαία ὁ ψυχή ἐγώ καί ἐκ χείρ κύων ὁ μονογενής ἐγώ
Save me from the lion's mouth; and regard my lowliness from the horns of the unicorns.
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
On this verse, J. A. Alexander on Psalms discusses the Septuagint’s reading. Read the note in Commentary ↓
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Psalms, in the Wisdom, opens this verse with 6 words (6 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is rᵉʼêm (“aurochs”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on Psalms 22:21 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.
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Trapp's Complete Commentary
John Trapp
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
J. A. Alexander on Psalms
Joseph Addison Alexander
Joseph Addison Alexander, The Psalms Translated and Explained (1850) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Geneva Bible (1599)
Geneva Bible translators
Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain. Text via Bolls.life.
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown — Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible (1810–1826) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers
A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
John Gill's Exposition
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible (1834–1885) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
Matthew Poole's English Annotations
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
The Treasury of David
Charles H. Spurgeon
Charles H. Spurgeon's The Treasury of David (1869–1885) — public domain. Psalms only. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
Whedon's Commentary on the Bible
Daniel D. Whedon
Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Pulpit Commentary
The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
John Wesley's Explanatory Notes
John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the Whole Bible (1754–1765) — public domain. Text via the GEBible commentary corpus.
Radak
Rabbi David Kimhi (Radak)
Radak on the Tanakh — English translations: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “Eliyahu Munk, HaChut Hameshulash” (CC BY 4.0); “Rabbi Mike Feuer, Jerusalem Anthology” (CC BY 4.0); and “R. David Kimhi on the first book of Psalms, Translated by R.G. Finch, London, 1919” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.