Psalm 22:12 {21:13}
Good News Translation
Many enemies surround me like bulls; they are all around me, like fierce bulls from the land of Bashan.

New Revised Standard Version
Many bulls encircle me, strong bulls of Bashan surround me;

Contemporary English Version
Enemies are all around like a herd of wild bulls. Powerful bulls from Bashan are everywhere.

New American Bible
Many bulls surround me; fierce bulls of Bashan encircle me.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Many calves have surrounded me: fat bulls have besieged me.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Many calves have surrounded me: fat bulls have besieged me.

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Psalm 68:30 Rebuke the wild beasts of the reeds, the congregation of bulls with the kine of the people; who seek to exclude them who are tried with silver. Scatter thou the nations that delight in wars:

Jeremiah 50:11 Because you rejoice, and speak great things, pillaging my inheritance: because you are spread abroad as calves upon the grass, and have bellowed as bulls.

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Deuteronomy 32:14,15 Butter of the herd, and milk of the sheep with the fat of lambs, and of the rams of the breed of Basan: and goats with the marrow of wheat, and might drink the purest blood of the grape. . . .

Isaiah 34:7 And the unicorns shall go down with them, and the bulls with the mighty: their land shall be soaked with blood, and their ground with the fat of fat ones.

Ezekiel 39:18 You shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and you shall drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, and of lambs, and of he goats, and bullocks, and of all that are well fed and fat.

Amos 4:1-3 Hear this word, ye fat kine that are in the mountains of Samaria: you that oppress the needy, and crush the poor: that say to your masters: Bring, and we will drink. . . .

Matthew 27:1 And when morning was come, all the chief priests and ancients of the people took counsel against Jesus, that they might put him to death.

Acts 4:27 For of a truth there assembled together in this city against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel,

Context
The Psalm of the Cross
11Depart not from me. For tribulation is very near: for there is none to help me. 12Many calves have surrounded me: fat bulls have besieged me.13They have opened their mouths against me, as a lion ravening and roaring.…
Cross References
Luke 21:20
And when you shall see Jerusalem compassed about with an army, then know that the desolation thereof is at hand.

Deuteronomy 32:14
Butter of the herd, and milk of the sheep with the fat of lambs, and of the rams of the breed of Basan: and goats with the marrow of wheat, and might drink the purest blood of the grape.

Psalm 22:21
Save me from the lion's mouth; and my lowness from the horns of the unicorns.

Psalm 68:30
Rebuke the wild beasts of the reeds, the congregation of bulls with the kine of the people; who seek to exclude them who are tried with silver. Scatter thou the nations that delight in wars:

Psalm 88:17
They have come round about me like water all the day: they have compassed me about together.

Ezekiel 39:18
You shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and you shall drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, and of lambs, and of he goats, and bullocks, and of all that are well fed and fat.

Amos 4:1
Hear this word, ye fat kine that are in the mountains of Samaria: you that oppress the needy, and crush the poor: that say to your masters: Bring, and we will drink.

Habakkuk 1:4
Therefore the law is torn in pieces, and judgment cometh not to the end: because the wicked prevaileth against the just, therefore wrong judgment goeth forth.

Psalm 22:11
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