My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, from the words of my groaning?
Psalm 22:16 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 For dogs are all around me; a company of evildoers encircles me; they bound my hands and feet. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For dogs have compassed me: The assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: They pierced my hands and my feet. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For [like a pack of] dogs they have encompassed me; a company of evildoers has encircled me, they pierced my hands and my feet. [Isa. 53:7; John 19:37.] American Standard Version (1901) For dogs have compassed me: A company of evil-doers have inclosed me; They pierced my hands and my feet. Common English Bible Dogs surround me; a pack of evil people circle me like a lion— oh, my poor hands and feet! |
My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, from the words of my groaning?
My friends and companions stand aloof from my affliction, and my neighbors stand far off.
Each evening they come back howling like dogs and prowling about the city.
Each evening they come back howling like dogs and prowling about the city.
O God, the insolent rise up against me; a band of ruffians seeks my life, and they do not set you before them.
But he was wounded for our transgressions, crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the punishment that made us whole, and by his bruises we are healed.
For even your kinsfolk and your own family, even they have dealt treacherously with you; they are in full cry after you; do not believe them, though they speak friendly words to you.
And I will pour out a spirit of compassion and supplication on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem so that, when they look on the one whom they have pierced, they shall mourn for him as one mourns for an only child and weep bitterly over him as one weeps over a firstborn.
Those who had arrested Jesus took him to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders had gathered.
And when they had crucified him, they divided his clothes among themselves by casting lots;
“Do not give what is holy to dogs, and do not throw your pearls before swine, or they will trample them under foot and turn and maul you.
And they crucified him and divided his clothes among them, casting lots to decide what each should take.
But they kept urgently demanding with loud shouts that he should be crucified, and their voices prevailed.
When they came to the place that is called The Skull, they crucified Jesus there with the criminals, one on his right and one on his left. [[
When the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they took his clothes and divided them into four parts, one for each soldier. They also took his tunic; now the tunic was seamless, woven in one piece from the top.
Instead, one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and at once blood and water came out.
And again another passage of scripture says, “They will look on the one whom they have pierced.”
So the other disciples told him, “We have seen the Lord.” But he said to them, “Unless I see the mark of the nails in his hands and put my finger in the mark of the nails and my hand in his side, I will not believe.”
Then he said to Thomas, “Put your finger here and see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it in my side. Do not doubt but believe.”
Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of those who mutilate the flesh!
Outside are the dogs and sorcerers and sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.