Psalms 22:21 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 22:21

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

KJV

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ASV

Save me from the lion’s mouth; Yea, from the horns of the wild-oxen thou hast answered me.

WEB

Save me from the mouth of the lion; at the horns of the wild oxen You have answered me!

YLT

Save me from the mouth of a lion: --And--from the horns of the high places Thou hast answered me!

DBT

Save me from the lion's mouth. Yea, from the horns of the buffaloes hast thou answered me.

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Psalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.

Author: David principally (73 Psalms + 2 NT-cited); Asaph, Sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan; ~50 anonymous.
Date: Composed c. 1400 BC (Mosaic Ps 90) through the post-exilic period (Ps 126 ''when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion''). Roughly a millennium of composition; editorial compilation likely into the Persian period.

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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:
Psalms 118:25
Save now, I beseech thee, O Lord: O Lord, I beseech thee, send now prosperity.
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,

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), where David, as a type of Christ, complains of the very calamitous condition he was in upon many accounts. He complains, and mixes comforts with his complaints; he complains (

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

27 All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the L ORD : and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee. 28 For the kingdom is the L ORD 's: and he is the governor among the nations. 29 All they that be fat upon earth shall eat and worship: all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him: and none can keep alive his own soul.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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 Ps 22:13). The lion often used as a figure representing violent enemies; the connecting of the mouth intimates their rapacity.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

PSA 22:211PE 5:8 EPH 6:11
PSA 22:211PE 5:8 JAS 4:7
PSA 22:211PE 5:8 EPH 4:27
PSA 22:211PE 5:8 JOB 2:2
PSA 22:211PE 5:8 1PE 1:13
PSA 22:21JHN 14:30 1JN 5:19
PSA 22:21JHN 14:30 1JN 4:4
PSA 22:21JHN 14:30 JHN 12:31

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