Psalm 22:16
Modern Translations
New International Version
Dogs surround me, a pack of villains encircles me; they pierce my hands and my feet.

New Living Translation
My enemies surround me like a pack of dogs; an evil gang closes in on me. They have pierced my hands and feet.

English Standard Version
For dogs encompass me; a company of evildoers encircles me; they have pierced my hands and feet—

Berean Study Bible
For dogs surround me; a band of evil men encircles me; they have pierced my hands and feet.

New American Standard Bible
For dogs have surrounded me; A band of evildoers has encompassed me; They pierced my hands and my feet.

NASB 1995
For dogs have surrounded me; A band of evildoers has encompassed me; They pierced my hands and my feet.

NASB 1977
For dogs have surrounded me; A band of evildoers has encompassed me; They pierced my hands and my feet.

Amplified Bible
For [a pack of] dogs have surrounded me; A gang of evildoers has encircled me, They pierced my hands and my feet.

Christian Standard Bible
For dogs have surrounded me; a gang of evildoers has closed in on me; they pierced my hands and my feet.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
For dogs have surrounded me; a gang of evildoers has closed in on me; they pierced my hands and my feet.

Contemporary English Version
Brutal enemies attack me like a pack of dogs, tearing at my hands and my feet.

Good News Translation
An evil gang is around me; like a pack of dogs they close in on me; they tear at my hands and feet.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Dogs have surrounded me. A mob has encircled me. They have pierced my hands and feet.

International Standard Version
For dogs have surrounded me; a gang of those who practice of evil has encircled me. They gouged my hands and my feet.

NET Bible
Yes, wild dogs surround me--a gang of evil men crowd around me; like a lion they pin my hands and feet.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.

New King James Version
For dogs have surrounded Me; The congregation of the wicked has enclosed Me. They pierced My hands and My feet;

King James 2000 Bible
For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have enclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.

New Heart English Bible
For many dogs have surrounded me. A company of evildoers have enclosed me. They have pierced my hands and my feet.

World English Bible
For dogs have surrounded me. A company of evildoers have enclosed me. They have pierced my hands and feet.

American King James Version
For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have enclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.

American Standard Version
For dogs have compassed me: A company of evil-doers have inclosed me; They pierced my hands and my feet.

A Faithful Version
Dogs have surrounded Me; a band of evildoers have encircled Me; they have pierced My hands and My feet; and You have brought Me into the dust of death.

Darby Bible Translation
For dogs have encompassed me; an assembly of evil-doers have surrounded me: they pierced my hands and my feet.

English Revised Version
For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of evil-doers have enclosed me; they pierced my hands and my feet.

Webster's Bible Translation
For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
For dogges haue compassed me, and the assemblie of the wicked haue inclosed me: they perced mine hands and my feete.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
For dogges are come about me, the assemble of the wicked lay siege agaynst me: they haue pearced my handes and my feete, I may tell all my bones.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
For dogges are come aboute me, the coucell of ye wicked hath layed sege agaynst me.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
And You appoint Me to the dust of death, "" For dogs have surrounded Me, "" A company of evildoers has surrounded Me, "" Piercing My hands and My feet.

Young's Literal Translation
And to the dust of death thou appointest me, For surrounded me have dogs, A company of evil doers have compassed me, Piercing my hands and my feet.

Smith's Literal Translation
For dogs surrounded me: the assembly of those being evil moved round about me: they digged my hands and my feet.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
For many dogs have encompassed me: the council of the malignant hath besieged me. They have dug my hands and feet.

Catholic Public Domain Version
For many dogs have surrounded me. The council of the malicious has besieged me. They have pierced my hands and feet.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
Because dogs surround me and the assembly of the evil have surrounded me; they have pierced my hands and my feet!

Lamsa Bible
For the vicious have surrounded me; the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me; they have pierced my hands and my feet.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
For dogs have encompassed me; A company of evil-doers have inclosed me; Like a lion, they are at my hands and my feet.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
For many dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked doers has beset me round: they pierced my hands and my feet.
















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