Psalms 22:6 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁶But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.

Psalms 22:6 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 53:3
He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
Job 25:6
How much less man, that is a worm? and the son of man, which is a worm?
Isaiah 49:7
Thus saith the LORD, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, to him whom man despiseth, to him whom the nation abhorreth, to a servant of rulers, Kings shall see and arise, princes also shall worship, because of the LORD that is faithful, and the Holy One of Israel, and he shall choose thee.
Isaiah 41:14
Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith the LORD, and thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.
Psalms 69:7-12
Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face. …

Topics

Accusation, False Afflictions and Adversities Bigotry Fasting Gentleness Humiliation and Self-Affliction Humility Intolerance, Religious

Commentary

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

(vv. 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 (Song 8:14), as the loving hind and the pleasant roe, to all believers (Prov. 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…

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

(vv. 6)

6. He who was despised and rejected of His own people, as a disgrace to the nation, might well use these words of deep abasement, which express not His real, but esteemed, value.