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All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,
Psalms 22:7 · King James Version
Parallel translations
  • WEB All those who see me mock me. They insult me with their lips. They shake their heads, saying,
  • BSB All who see me mock me; they sneer and shake their heads:
  • NKJV All those who see Me ridicule Me; They shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,
  • NASB All who see me deride me; They sneer, they shake their heads, saying,
  • NLT Everyone who sees me mocks me. They sneer and shake their heads, saying,

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Quick answer

All who see him mock him, sneering and shaking their heads. He is the target of public scorn and derision.

Overview

The sufferer is surrounded by mockers who deride him with gestures of contempt. The Gospels record this very scene at the cross, where passersby 'wagged their heads' and reviled Jesus (Matt 27:39). The detail confirms the psalm's prophetic depiction of the Messiah's rejection and suffering.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 20

  • Mark 15:29And they that passed by railed on him, wagging their heads, and saying, Ah, thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it in three days,
  • Matt 27:39–40And they that passed by reviled him, wagging their heads,
  • Ps 109:25I became also a reproach unto them: when they looked upon me they shaked their heads.
  • Luke 23:11And Herod with his men of war set him at nought, and mocked him, and arrayed him in a gorgeous robe, and sent him again to Pilate.
  • Matt 27:29And when they had platted a crown of thorns, they put it upon his head, and a reed in his right hand: and they bowed the knee before him, and mocked him, saying, Hail, King of the Jews!
  • Matt 26:66–68What think ye? They answered and said, He is guilty of death.
  • Mark 15:20And when they had mocked him, they took off the purple from him, and put his own clothes on him, and led him out to crucify him.
  • Ps 44:14Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.
  • Isa 53:3He 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 16:4I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul’s stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you.
  • Ps 35:15–16But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: yea, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not:
  • Isa 57:4Against whom do ye sport yourselves? against whom make ye a wide mouth, and draw out the tongue? are ye not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood,
  • Ps 31:18Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.
  • Luke 23:35–39And the people stood beholding. And the rulers also with them derided him, saying, He saved others; let him save himself, if he be Christ, the chosen of God.
  • Job 16:10They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.
  • Matt 9:24He said unto them, Give place: for the maid is not dead, but sleepeth. And they laughed him to scorn.
  • Luke 16:14And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him.
  • Mark 11:29–32And Jesus answered and said unto them, I will also ask of you one question, and answer me, and I will tell you by what authority I do these things.
  • Job 30:9–11And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.
  • Isa 37:22–23This is the word which the LORD hath spoken concerning him; The virgin, the daughter of Zion, hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee.

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Christ at the center

The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.

How Psalms 22:7 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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