Psalms 22:6 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 22:6

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

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ASV

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

WEB

But I am a worm and not a man, scorned by men and despised by the people.

YLT

And I am a worm, and no man, A reproach of man, and despised of the people.

DBT

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

About this book

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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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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.
Hebrews 12:2
Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Job 25:6
How much less man, that is a worm? and the son of man, which is a worm?
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.
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.

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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

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.

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

They make mouths at him, make merry over him, and make a jest of his sufferings: They shoot out the lip, they shake their head, saying, This was he that said he trusted God would deliver him; now let him deliver him. David was sometimes taunted for his confidence in God; but in the sufferings of Christ this was literally and exactly fulfilled.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

A worm - Neglected and despised. People - Not only of the great men, but also of the common people. Which doth not so truly agree to David as to Christ.

John Wesley (NT Notes)· Explanatory Notes upon the Bible, 1765evangelical

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Lexical Typology Strong's H8438
'I am a worm (tolaat)' -- the psalm Jesus quotes (Matt 27:46) uses the same tolaat that names the crimson dye-grub. FLAG: surface the lexical fact only; the mother-worm life-cycle sermon is folklore.
STEPBible; Ps 22:6; Matt 27:46

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H95944× in canon H278173× in canon H595359× in canon

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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 22:6ISA 53:3 MAT 26:67
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
PSA 22:6ISA 53:3 JHN 1:10-11
PSA 22:6ISA 53:3 ISA 53:10
PSA 22:6ISA 53:3 HEB 12:2-3
PSA 22:6ISA 53:3 ISA 49:7
PSA 22:6ISA 49:7 1PE 2:4
PSA 22:6ISA 49:7 ISA 53:3
PSA 22:6ISA 49:7 ISA 48:17

The whole web at once: see the Arc.

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