For dogs have surrounded me. A company of evildoers have enclosed me. They have pierced my hands and feet.
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- KJV For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.
- BSB For dogs surround me; a band of evil men encircles me; they have pierced my hands and feet.
- NKJV For dogs have surrounded Me; The congregation of the wicked has enclosed Me. They pierced My hands and My feet;
- NASB For dogs have surrounded me; A band of evildoers has encompassed me; They pierced my hands and my feet.
- NLT My enemies surround me like a pack of dogs; an evil gang closes in on me. They have pierced my hands and feet.
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- John 19:37Again another Scripture says, “They will look on him whom they pierced.”
- Zech 12:10I will pour on David’s house, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication; and they will look to me whom they have pierced; and they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son, and will grieve bitterly for him, as one grieves for his firstborn.
- Matt 27:35When they had crucified him, they divided his clothing among them, casting lots,
- John 20:25The other disciples therefore said to him, “We have seen the Lord!” But he said to them, “Unless I see in his hands the print of the nails, put my finger into the print of the nails, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe.”
- John 19:23Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also the coat. Now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout.
- John 19:34However one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and immediately blood and water came out.
- Mark 15:24Crucifying him, they parted his garments among them, casting lots on them, what each should take.
- John 20:27Then he said to Thomas, “Reach here your finger, and see my hands. Reach here your hand, and put it into my side. Don’t be unbelieving, but believing.”
- Luke 23:33When they came to the place that is called The Skull, they crucified him there with the criminals, one on the right and the other on the left.
- Mark 15:16–20The soldiers led him away within the court, which is the Praetorium; and they called together the whole cohort.
- Phil 3:2Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of the false circumcision.
- Ps 22:20Deliver my soul from the sword, my precious life from the power of the dog.
- Isa 53:5But he was pierced for our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities. The punishment that brought our peace was on him; and by his wounds we are healed.
- Luke 23:4–5Pilate said to the chief priests and the multitudes, “I find no basis for a charge against this man.”
- Luke 23:23But they were urgent with loud voices, asking that he might be crucified. Their voices and the voices of the chief priests prevailed.
- Ps 59:6They return at evening, howling like dogs, and prowl around the city.
- Luke 23:10–11The chief priests and the scribes stood, vehemently accusing him.
- Ps 22:1For the Chief Musician; set to “The Doe of the Morning.” A Psalm by David. My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning?
- Ps 86:14God, the proud have risen up against me. A company of violent men have sought after my soul, and they don’t hold regard for you before them.
- Rev 22:15Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
- Luke 11:53–54As he said these things to them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to be terribly angry, and to draw many things out of him;
- Matt 26:57Those who had taken Jesus led him away to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders were gathered together.
- Luke 22:63–71The men who held Jesus mocked him and beat him.
- Matt 7:6“Don’t give that which is holy to the dogs, neither throw your pearls before the pigs, lest perhaps they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.
- Ps 59:14At evening let them return. Let them howl like a dog, and go around the city.
- Jer 12:6For even your brothers, and the house of your father, even they have dealt treacherously with you; even they have cried aloud after you! Don’t believe them, though they speak beautiful words to you.
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