Psalms 22:7

All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
see	רֹ֭אַי Ro.'ai	H7200	to see · verb, qal active participle, masculine plural construct + pronominal suffix
scorn	יַלְעִ֣גוּ yal.'I.gu	H3932	to deride · verb, hiphil imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural
out	פָּטוּר pâṭûwr	H6358	opened
lip	בְ֝שָׂפָ֗ה ve.sa.Fah	H8193	the lip (as a natural boundary) · preposition + noun, common feminine singular absolute
shake	יָנִ֥יעוּ ya.Ni.'u	H5128	to waver · verb, hiphil imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural
head	רֹֽאשׁ Rosh	H7218	the head (as most easily shaken) · noun, common masculine singular absolute

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Cross-references

Mark 15:29 And they that passed by railed on him, wagging their heads, and saying, Ah, thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it in three days,
Matthew 27:39-40 And they that passed by reviled him, wagging their heads,
Psalms 109:25 I became also a reproach unto them: when they looked upon me they shaked their heads.
Luke 23:11 And Herod with his men of war set him at nought, and mocked him, and arrayed him in a gorgeous robe, and sent him again to Pilate.
Matthew 26:66-68 What think ye? They answered and said, He is guilty of death.
Matthew 27:29 And when they had platted a crown of thorns, they put it upon his head, and a reed in his right hand: and they bowed the knee before him, an…
Mark 15:20 And when they had mocked him, they took off the purple from him, and put his own clothes on him, and led him out to crucify him.
Psalms 44:14 Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 22:1-10

Some think they find Christ in the title of this psalm, upon Aijeleth Shahar - The hind of the morning. Christ is as the swift hind upon the mountains of spices (Sol 8:14), as the loving hind and the pleasant roe, to all believers (Pro 5:19); he giveth goodly words like Naphtali, who is compared to a hind let loose, Gen 49:21. He is the hind of the morning, marked out by the counsels of God from eternity, to be run down by those dogs that compassed him, Psa 22:16. But others think it denotes only the tune to which the psalm was set. In these verses we have, I. A sad complaint of God's withdrawings, Psa 22:1, Psa 22:2. 1. This may be applied to David, or any other child of God, in the want of…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 22:7

For the Jews used one of the gestures (Mat 27:39) here mentioned, when taunting Him on the cross, and (Mat 27:43) reproached Him almost in the very, language of this passage. shoot out--or, "open." the lip--(Compare Psa 35:21).

John Gill on Psalms 22:7

All they that see me laugh me to scorn,.... To the afflicted pity should be shown; but instead or pitying him in his distresses they laughed at him; this must be understood of the soldiers when they had him in Pilate's hall, and of the Jews in general when he hung upon the cross; some particular persons must be excepted, as John the beloved disciple, the mother of our Lord, Mary Magdalene, and some other women, who stood afar off beholding him; they shoot out the lip; or "open with the lip" (y); they made mouths at him, they put out their lips, or gaped upon him with their mouths, and in a way of sport and pastime made wide mouths and drew out their tongues, as in Job 16:10; they shake the…

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John Calvin on Psalms 22:3-8

Psalm 22:3-8 3. Yet thou art holy, who inhabitest the praises of Israel. 4. Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them. 5. They cried unto thee, and were delivered: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded. 6. But I am a worm, and not a man; the scorn of men, and the contempt of the people. 7. All those who see me mock at me: they thrust out the lip, and shake the head. 8. "He has committed," say they, "his cause unto [or, devolved his cause upon] Jehovah: [502] let him deliver him, let him deliver him, [503] seeing he delights in him." 3. Yet thou art holy. In the Hebrew, it is properly, And thou art holy: but the copula v, vau, ought, without doubt, to be…

The Church Fathers

"All that saw Me laughed Me to scorn" [Psalm 22:7]. All that saw Me derided Me. "And spoke with the lips, and shook the head." [Matthew 27:39] And they spoke, not with the heart, but with the lips.
— Augustine of Hippo, Exposition on Psalm 22

Just as we say that the flesh became [the Word's] very own, in the same way the weakness of that flesh became his very own in an economic appropriation according to the terms of the unification. So, he is "made like his brothers in all things except sin alone." Do not be astonished if we say that he has made the weakness of the flesh his own along with the flesh itself. He even attributed to himself those external outrages that came on him from the roughness of the Jews, saying through the voice of the psalmist: "They divided my garments among them and cast lots for my clothes," and again: "All those who saw me sneered at me, they wagged their tongues, they shook their heads."
— Cyril of Alexandria, ON THE UNITY OF CHRIST

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Dictionary and topics

Aijeleth Shahar — Hind of the dawn, a name found in the title of Ps. 22. It is probably the name of some song or tune to the measure of which the psalm was to be chanted. Some, however, understand by the name some…
Hind — Heb. ‘ayalah (2 Sam. 22:34; Ps. 18:33, etc.) and ‘ayeleth (Ps. 22, title), the female of the hart or stag. It is referred to as an emblem of activity (Gen. 49:21), gentleness (Prov. 5:19), feminine…
Lip — Besides its literal sense (Isa. 37:29, etc.), is used in the original (saphah) metaphorically for an edge or border, as of a cup (1 Kings 7:26), a garment (Ex. 28:32), a curtain (26:4), the sea (Gen.…
Head · Derision expressed by shaking — Derision expressed by shaking
Malice · General scriptures concerning — General scriptures concerning
Persecution · OF JESUS — OF JESUS
Prophecies Respecting Christ · His being mocked — His being mocked
Scorning And Mocking · The sufferings of Christ by, predicted — The sufferings of Christ by, predicted

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Psalms 22:7

Word by word — the Hebrew

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 22:1-10

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 22:7

John Gill on Psalms 22:7

John Calvin on Psalms 22:3-8

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Psalms 22:7

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 22:1-10

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 22:7

John Gill on Psalms 22:7

John Calvin on Psalms 22:3-8

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Keil & Delitzsch on Psalms 22:6-8

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Psalms 22:7

Spurgeon's Treasury of David on Psalms 22:7