KJV King James Version
Many bulls have compassed me: strong [bulls] of Bashan have beset me round.
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Psalm 22:12
Many bulls have compassed me: strong [bulls] of Bashan have beset me round.
Read it in 5 translations
BSB Berean Standard Bible
Many bulls surround me; strong bulls of Bashan encircle me.
WEB World English Bible
Many bulls have surrounded me. Strong bulls of Bashan have encircled me.
ASV American Standard Version
Many bulls have compassed me; Strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Many bulls have surrounded me, Mighty ones of Bashan have compassed me,
Surrounding context — Psalm 22
9 But thou [art] he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope [when I was] upon my mother’s breasts.
10 I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou [art] my God from my mother’s belly.
11 Be not far from me; for trouble [is] near; for [there is] none to help.
12 Many bulls have compassed me: strong [bulls] of Bashan have beset me round.
13 They gaped upon me [with] their mouths, [as] a ravening and a roaring lion.
14 I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.
15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.
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Amos 4:1-3Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that [are] in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink.Acts 4:27For of a truth against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people of Israel, were gathered together,Psalm 68:30Rebuke the company of spearmen, the multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the people, [till every one] submit himself with pieces of silver: scatter thou the people [that] delight in war.Matthew 27:1When the morning was come, all the chief priests and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death:Deuteronomy 32:14-15Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat; and thou didst drink the pure blood of the grape.Ezekiel 39:18Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.Jeremiah 50:11Because ye were glad, because ye rejoiced, O ye destroyers of mine heritage, because ye are grown fat as the heifer at grass, and bellow as bulls;Isaiah 34:7And the unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.
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