Psalms Chapter 22 verse 12 Holy Bible
Many bulls have compassed me; Strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.
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A great herd of oxen is round me: I am shut in by the strong oxen of Bashan.
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Many bulls have encompassed me; Bashan's strong ones have beset me round.
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Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.
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Be not far from me; for trouble is near; for there is none to help.
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Many bulls have surrounded me. Strong bulls of Bashan have encircled me.
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Many bulls have surrounded me, Mighty ones of Bashan have compassed me,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 12. - Many bulls have compassed me. The Sufferer represents the adversaries who crowd around him under the figure of "bulls" - fierce animals in all parts of the world, and in Palestine particularly' wild and ferocious. "Bulls,, and buffaloes are very numerous, says Canon Tristram, "in Southern Judaea; they are in the habit of gathering in a circle around any novel or unaccustomed object, and may be easily instigated into charging with their horns" ('Natural History of the Bible,' p. 71). Strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round. Bashan, the richest pasture-g"round of Palestine, produces the largest and strongest animals (Ezekiel 39:18). Hence "the kine of Bashan" became an expression for powerful oppressors (Amos 4:1).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(12) Bulls of Bashan.--For "Bashan" see Numbers 21:33; for its pastures and cattle, comp. Deuteronomy 32:14, and for the figures, Amos 4:1. Instead of "fat bulls," the LXX. and Vulgate paraphrase "strong ones of Bashan." The point of the comparison lies in the wantonness and insolence of pampered pride, displayed by the minions of fortune.
