Psalms 22:21
19 But be not thou far from me, O LORD: O my strength, haste thee to help me.
20 Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog.
Save me from the lion’s mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns.
22 I will declare thy name unto my brethren: in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee.
23 Ye that fear the LORD, praise him; all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him; and fear him, all ye the seed of Israel.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Save me from the mouth of the lion; at the horns of the wild oxen You have answered me!
- KJV
- Save me from the lion’s mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns.
- WEB
- Save me from the lion’s mouth! Yes, you have rescued me from the horns of the wild oxen.
- ASV
- Save me from the lion`s mouth; Yea, from the horns of the wild-oxen thou hast answered me.
- DARBY
- Save me from the lion's mouth. Yea, from the horns of the buffaloes hast thou answered me.
- BLB
- Save me from the mouth of the lion, and from the horns of the wild oxen answer me.
- ÅB
- Redd meg fra løvens gap,
og fra villoksenes horn -
du bønnhører meg! - OTB
- Redd meg fra løvens munn;
Fra de ville oksenes horn har du svart meg. - B1930
- Frels mig fra løvens gap, og fra villoksenes horn - du bønnhører mig!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
2 Timothy 4:17
Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that by me the preaching might be fully known, and that all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.
Read in context1 Peter 5:8
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
Read in contextActs 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,
Read in contextJohn 14:30
Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me.
Read in contextNumbers 23:22
God brought them out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn.
Read in contextIsaiah 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.
Read in contextJohn 8:59
Then took they up stones to cast at him: but Jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so passed by.
Read in contextActs 5:30–32
The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew and hanged on a tree.
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