Psalms 22:12

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.

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.

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: Many bulls surround me; strong bulls of Bashan encircle me.
KJV: Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.
WEB: Many bulls have surrounded me. Strong bulls of Bashan have encircled me.
ASV: Many bulls have compassed me; Strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.
DARBY: Many bulls have encompassed me; Bashan's strong ones have beset me round.
BLB: Many [strong] bulls have surrounded me, mighty ones of Bashan have encircled Me.

ÅB: Sterke okser omringer meg,
Basans okser beleirer meg.
OTB: Mange okser har omringet meg;
Sterke okser fra Basan har omringet meg.
B1930: Sterke okser omringer mig, Basans okser kringsetter mig.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Amos 4:1–3
Hear 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.
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Acts 4:27
For 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,
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Psalms 68:30
Rebuke 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.
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Matthew 27:1
When the morning was come, all the chief priests and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death:
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Deuteronomy 32:14–15
Butter 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.
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Ezekiel 39:18
Ye 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.
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Jeremiah 50:11
Because 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;
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Isaiah 34:7
And 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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