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Everyone who sees me mocks me. They sneer and shake their heads, saying,
Psalms 22:7 · New Living Translation
Parallel translations
  • WEB All those who see me mock me. They insult me with their lips. They shake their heads, saying,
  • KJV All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, 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,

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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 15:29Those who passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads, and saying, “Ha! You who destroy the temple, and build it in three days,
  • Matt 27:39–40Those who passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads,
  • Ps 109:25I have also become a reproach to them. When they see me, they shake their head.
  • Luke 23:11Herod with his soldiers humiliated him and mocked him. Dressing him in luxurious clothing, they sent him back to Pilate.
  • Matt 27:29They braided a crown of thorns and put it on his head, and a reed in his right hand; and they kneeled down before him, and mocked him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!”
  • Matt 26:66–68What do you think?” They answered, “He is worthy of death!”
  • Mark 15:20When they had mocked him, they took the purple off of him, and put his own garments on him. They led him out to crucify him.
  • Ps 44:14You make us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples.
  • Isa 53:3He was despised, and rejected by men; a man of suffering, and acquainted with disease. He was despised as one from whom men hide their face; and we didn’t respect him.
  • Job 16:4I also could speak as you do. If your soul were in my soul’s place, I could join words together against you, and shake my head at you,
  • Ps 35:15–16But in my adversity, they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together. The attackers gathered themselves together against me, and I didn’t know it. They tore at me, and didn’t cease.
  • Isa 57:4Whom do you mock? Against whom do you make a wide mouth, and stick out your tongue? Aren’t you children of disobedience, and offspring of falsehood,
  • Ps 31:18Let the lying lips be mute, which speak against the righteous insolently, with pride and contempt.
  • Luke 23:35–39The people stood watching. The rulers with them also scoffed at him, saying, “He saved others. Let him save himself, if this is the Christ of God, his chosen one!”
  • Job 16:10They have gaped on me with their mouth. They have struck me on the cheek reproachfully. They gather themselves together against me.
  • Matt 9:24he said to them, “Make room, because the girl isn’t dead, but sleeping.” They were ridiculing him.
  • Luke 16:14The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, also heard all these things, and they scoffed at him.
  • Mark 11:29–32Jesus said to them, “I will ask you one question. Answer me, and I will tell you by what authority I do these things.
  • Job 30:9–11“Now I have become their song. Yes, I am a byword to them.
  • Isa 37:22–23this is the word which Yahweh has spoken concerning him. The virgin daughter of Zion has despised you and ridiculed you. The daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you.

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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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