Psalms 22:21 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²¹Save me from the lion's mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns.

Psalms 22:21 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.
1 Peter 5:8
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
Numbers 23:22
God brought them out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn.
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,
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.

Topics

Accusation, False Afflictions and Adversities Bigotry Intolerance, Religious Martyrdom Persecution Suffering Unicorn (wild Ox, R. V.)

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 11-21)

In these verses we have Christ suffering and Christ praying, by which we are directed to look for crosses and to look up to God under them. I. Here is Christ suffering. David indeed was often in trouble, and beset with enemies; but many of the particulars here specified are such as were never true of David, and therefore must be appropriated to Christ in the depth of his humiliation. 1. He is here…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 21)

21. Deliverance pleaded in view of former help, when in the most imminent danger, from the most powerful enemy, represented by the unicorn or wild buffalo. the lion’s mouth--(Compare Psa 22:13). The lion often used as a figure representing violent enemies; the connecting of the mouth intimates their rapacity.