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All those who see me mock me. They insult me with their lips. They shake their heads, saying,
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A Prophecy of the Cross
Commentators unanimously identify this verse as a precise prophecy of Jesus' crucifixion. The specific actions of being laughed to scorn, the mocking gesture of 'shooting out the lip,' and the derisive 'shaking of the head' are all recorded as happening to Jesus in the Gospels, particularly in Matthew 27:39 and Luke 23:35.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
All they that see me laugh me to scorn—They deride or mock me. On the word used here—לעג lâ‛ag—see the notes at Psa…
19th Century
Anglican
Laugh me to scorn. — Septuagint, ἐξεμυκτήρισάν, the verb used by St. Luke in his description of the cruc…
Baptist
All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying, He trusted on the LORD that he would deliver him: …
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16th Century
Protestant
All those who see me mock at me, etc., This is an explanation of the preceding sentence. He had said that he was an object of scorn to the…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
All they that see me laugh me to scorn To the afflicted pity should be shown; but instead of pitying him in h…
The Spirit of Christ, who was in the prophets, testifies clearly and fully in this psalm to the sufferings of Christ and the glory that would follo…
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13th Century
Catholic
In the previous psalms, the sufferings which David endured from his son and from Saul seemed to be addressed. Now here, in the third set …
