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Psalms 22:21

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

KJV

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

ASV

הַצִּ֣ילָ/ה מֵ/חֶ֣רֶב נַפְשִׁ֑/י מִ/יַּד כֶּ֝֗לֶב יְחִידָתִֽ/י

Hebrew

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

YLT

Save me from the lion’s mouth! Yes, you have rescued me from the horns of the wild oxen.

WEB

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In the original Hebrew

6 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

וֹ
v
noun · 1620×
חֶ֖רֶב
chrb
noun · 409×
י
y
adjective · 12×
י
y
noun · 752×
כְּלָבִ֛ים
klbym
noun · 32×
נִי
ny
verb · 211×

Historic Christian voices

2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • 1Pet 5:8 — Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
  • 2Tim 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.
  • 2Tim 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.
  • 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,
  • Deut 33:17 — His glory is like the firstling of his bullock, and his horns are like the horns of unicorns: with them he shall push the people together to the ends of the earth: and they are the ten thousands of Ep
  • Isa 34:7 — And the unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.
  • Job 39:9 — Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib?
  • John 8:59 — Then took they up stones to cast at him: but Jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so passed by.
  • John 14:30 — Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me.
  • Num 23:22 — God brought them out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn.
  • Num 23:22 — God brought them out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn.
  • Ps 118:25 — Save now, I beseech thee, O LORD: O LORD, I beseech thee, send now prosperity.