Psalms 22:12

Authorized King James Version (1611)

Many bulls have compassed me: strong [bulls] of Bashan have beset me round.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 68:30 : 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.
  • Amos 4:1-3 : 1 ¶ 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. 2 The Lord GOD hath sworn by his holiness, that, lo, the days shall come upon you, that he will take you away with hooks, and your posterity with fishhooks. 3 And ye shall go out at the breaches, every [cow at that which is] before her; and ye shall cast [them] into the palace, saith the LORD.
  • Matt 27:1 : 1 ¶ When the morning was come, all the chief priests and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death:
  • Acts 4:27 : 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,
  • Deut 32:14-15 : 14 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. 15 ¶ But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered [with fatness]; then he forsook God [which] made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
  • Isa 34:7 : 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.
  • Jer 50:11 : 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;
  • Ezek 39:18 : 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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 22:13-14
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    13They gaped upon me [with] their mouths, [as] a ravening and a roaring lion.

    14I 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.

  • 11¶ Be not far from me; for trouble [is] near; for [there is] none to help.

  • Ps 22:16-17
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    16For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.

    17I may tell all my bones: they look [and] stare upon me.

  • Ps 118:10-13
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    74%

    10All nations compassed me about: but in the name of the LORD will I destroy them.

    11They compassed me about; yea, they compassed me about: but in the name of the LORD I will destroy them.

    12They compassed me about like bees; they are quenched as the fire of thorns: for in the name of the LORD I will destroy them.

    13Thou hast thrust sore at me that I might fall: but the LORD helped me.

  • 9From the wicked that oppress me, [from] my deadly enemies, [who] compass me about.

  • 17They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together.

  • Ps 17:11-12
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    11They have now compassed us in our steps: they have set their eyes bowing down to the earth;

    12Like as a lion [that] is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.

  • 4My soul [is] among lions: [and] I lie [even among] them that are set on fire, [even] the sons of men, whose teeth [are] spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

  • 12His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle.

  • Lam 3:10-11
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    10He [was] unto me [as] a bear lying in wait, [and as] a lion in secret places.

    11He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.

  • 13His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.

  • 10They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.

  • 2 Sam 22:5-6
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    5When the waves of death compassed me, the floods of ungodly men made me afraid;

    6The sorrows of hell compassed me about; the snares of death prevented me;

  • Ps 3:1-2
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    1¶ A Psalm of David, when he fled from Absalom his son. LORD, how are they increased that trouble me! many [are] they that rise up against me.

    2Many [there be] which say of my soul, [There is] no help for him in God. Selah.

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    2Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending [it] in pieces, while [there is] none to deliver.

  • 18He delivered me from my strong enemy, [and] from them that hated me: for they were too strong for me.

  • 3But thou, O LORD, knowest me: thou hast seen me, and tried mine heart toward thee: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.

  • 14O God, the proud are risen against me, and the assemblies of violent [men] have sought after my soul; and have not set thee before them.

  • 2Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet they have not prevailed against me.

  • 9¶ All ye beasts of the field, come to devour, [yea], all ye beasts in the forest.

  • 40For thou hast girded me with strength to battle: them that rose up against me hast thou subdued under me.

  • 2When the wicked, [even] mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.

  • 6For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth [are] the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek teeth of a great lion.

  • 12For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me.

  • 5The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set gins for me. Selah.

  • Ps 18:4-5
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    71%

    4The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.

    5The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me.

  • 3For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul: the mighty are gathered against me; not [for] my transgression, nor [for] my sin, O LORD.

  • 19But be not thou far from me, O LORD: O my strength, haste thee to help me.

  • 29Their roaring [shall be] like a lion, they shall roar like young lions: yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and shall carry [it] away safe, and none shall deliver [it].

  • 15But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: [yea], the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew [it] not; they did tear [me], and ceased not:

  • 9Mine heritage [is] unto me [as] a speckled bird, the birds round about [are] against her; come ye, assemble all the beasts of the field, come to devour.

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    6I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people, that have set [themselves] against me round about.

  • 12Upon [my] right [hand] rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.

  • 39For thou hast girded me with strength unto the battle: thou hast subdued under me those that rose up against me.

  • 14They came [upon me] as a wide breaking in [of waters]: in the desolation they rolled themselves [upon me].

  • 5He hath builded against me, and compassed [me] with gall and travail.

  • 17¶ Lord, how long wilt thou look on? rescue my soul from their destructions, my darling from the lions.

  • 2Mine enemies would daily swallow [me] up: for [they be] many that fight against me, O thou most High.

  • 17He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them which hated me: for they were too strong for me.

  • 5The waters compassed me about, [even] to the soul: the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head.