Psalms 22 · Verse 20

Psalms 22:20

Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog.
Psalms 22:20, King James Version

Psalms 22:20 in other translations

BSBDeliver my soul from the sword, my precious life from the power of wild dogs.
WEBDeliver my soul from the sword, my precious life from the power of the dog.
ASVDeliver my soul from the sword, My darling from the power of the dog.
YLTDeliver from the sword my soul, From the paw of a dog mine only one.
DARBYDeliver my soul from the sword; my only one from the power of the dog;
BBEMake my soul safe from the sword, my life from the power of the dog.
WebsterDeliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog.

What does Psalms 22:20 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 22:19-20

19-20. He now turns with unabated desire and trust to God, who, in His strength and faithfulness, is contrasted with the urgent dangers described.

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 20 Deliver my soul from the sword - Deliver נפשי naphshi, my life; save me alive, or raise me again. My darling - יחידתי yechidathi, my only one. The only human being that was ever produced since the creation, even by the power of God himself, without the agency of man. Adam the first was created out of the dust of the earth; that was his mother; God was the framer. Adam the second was produced in the womb of the virgin; that was his mother. But that which was conceived in her was by the power of the Holy Ghost; hence the man Christ Jesus is the Only Son of God; God is his Father, and he is his Only One.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 22:11-21

In these verses we have Christ suffering, and Christ praying; by which we are directed to look for crosses, and to look up to God under them. The very manner of Christ's death is described, though not in use among the Jews. They pierced his hands and his feet, which were nailed to the accursed tree, and his whole body was left so to hang as to suffer the most severe pain and torture. His natural force failed, being…

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Psalms 22:20 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

הַצִּ֣ילָהha.Tzi.lahdeliver !H5337
מֵחֶ֣רֶבme.Che.revfrom [the] swordH2719
נַפְשִׁ֑יnaf.Shilife myH5315
מִיַּד\־mi.yad-from [the] hand ofH3027
כֶּ֝֗לֶבKe.leva dogH3611
יְחִידָתִֽי\׃ye.chi.da.Tionly [life] myH3173

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Psalms 22:20

  • Psalms 35:17

    Lord, how long wilt thou look on? rescue my soul from their destructions, my darling from the lions.

  • Zechariah 13:7

    Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith the Lord of hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn mine hand upon the little ones.

  • Psalms 17:13

    Arise, O Lord, disappoint him, cast him down: deliver my soul from the wicked, which is thy sword:

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
soul.
17:13; Zec 13:7
my darling, etc. Heb. my only one from the hand.
35:17
the dog.
16

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Psalms 22:19

    But be not thou far from me, O Lord: O my strength, haste thee to help me.

  • Psalms 22:20

    Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog.

  • Psalms 22:21

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

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Psalms 22:20 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Libra de la espada mi alma; del poder del perro mi única.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Et toi, Éternel! ne te tiens pas loin; ma Force! hâte-toi de me secourir.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Errette vom Schwert meine Seele, meine einzige von der Gewalt des Hundes;