Psalm 22:16 in every translation
Leer en españolThe same verse in each translation we publish, grouped by language and by the tradition that made it. Numbering is matched for each text (for example, Psalms in the Septuagint).
Why does my Bible say something different?
- Psalm 22:16: “they pierced” or “like a lion”?
Most Hebrew manuscripts of Psalm 22:16 (22:17 in Hebrew) read ka’ari, “like a lion, my hands and my feet,” a line with no verb. The Greek Septuagint reads “they dug my hands and my feet,” which Christian Bibles have long rendered “pierced.” A Psalms fragment from the Judean desert has a different spelling that may be a verb. What the original Hebrew said is honestly debated.
English
Catholic
DRB Douay-Rheims (Challoner), American Edition 1899 In this text: Psalm 21:17
For many dogs have encompassed me: the council of the malignant hath besieged me. They have dug my hands and feet.
CPDV Catholic Public Domain Version In this text: Psalm 21:17
For many dogs have surrounded me. The council of the malicious has besieged me. They have pierced my hands and feet.
Protestant
WEB World English Bible (Classic, with Deuterocanon)
For dogs have surrounded me. A company of evildoers have enclosed me. They have pierced my hands and feet.
WEBBE World English Bible British Edition (with Deuterocanon)
For dogs have surrounded me. A company of evildoers have enclosed me. They have pierced my hands and feet.
KJV King James Version (with Apocrypha)
For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.
RV Revised Version with Apocrypha
For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of evil-doers have enclosed me; they pierced my hands and my feet.
MSB Majority Standard Bible
For dogs surround me; a band of evil men encircles me; they have pierced my hands and feet.
BSB Berean Standard Bible
For dogs surround me; a band of evil men encircles me; they have pierced my hands and feet.
ASV American Standard Version (1901)
For dogs have compassed me: A company of evil-doers have inclosed me; They pierced my hands and my feet.
LSV 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.
Read in context · Literal Standard Version. Copyright © 2020 Covenant Press. Text from eBible.org (https://ebible.org/englsv/), unaltered. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Darby Darby Translation
For dogs have encompassed me; an assembly of evil-doers have surrounded me: they pierced my hands and my feet.
Webster Noah Webster's Bible (1833)
For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.
GNV Geneva Bible (1599)
For dogges haue compassed me, and the assemblie of the wicked haue inclosed me: they perced mine hands and my feete.
ULB Unlocked Literal Bible
For dogs have surrounded me; a company of evildoers has encircled me; they have pierced my hands and my feet.
Read in context · Unlocked Literal Bible. Copyright © 2017 Door43 World Missions Community. Text from eBible.org (https://ebible.org/engULB/), unaltered. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Jewish
JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)
(22-17) For dogs have encompassed me; a company of evil-doers have inclosed me; like a lion, they are at my hands and my feet.
Individual translator
Brenton Brenton's English Septuagint In this text: Psalm 21:17
For many dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked doers has beset me round: they pierced my hands and my feet.
LXXUP Updated Brenton English Septuagint In this text: Psalm 21:17
For many dogs have compassed me: The assembly of the wicked doers has beset me round: They pierced my hands and my feet.
YLT 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.
FBV Free Bible Version
Evil men surround me like a pack of dogs. They have pierced my hands and feet.
Read in context · Free Bible Version. Copyright © 2018 Dr. Jonathan Gallagher. Text from eBible.org (https://ebible.org/engfbv/), unaltered. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Scholarly edition
BBE Bible in Basic English
Dogs have come round me: I am shut in by the band of evil-doers; they made wounds in my hands and feet.
Spanish
Protestant
RV1909 Reina-Valera 1909
Porque perros me han rodeado, hame cercado cuadrilla de malignos: horadaron mis manos y mis pies.
ONBV Biblica Open New Living Bible (Nueva Biblia Viva 2008)
Mis enemigos me rodean, me rodean como perros en jauría; me ha cercado una banda de malvados; me han traspasado las manos y los pies.
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PDT God's Word for You (Latin American Textual Bible)
Perros me rodearon. Me cercó cuadrilla de perversos. Horadaron mis manos y mis pies.
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Individual translator
VBL Free Bible Version (Spanish)
Los hombres malvados me rodean como una manada de perros. Han perforado mis manos y mis pies.
Read in context · Versión Biblia Libre. Copyright © 2018-2020 Jonathan Gallagher y Shelly Barrios de Avila. Texto de eBible.org (https://ebible.org/spavbl/), sin cambios. Licencia CC BY-SA 4.0.
BES Bible in Simple Spanish (2026)
Los perros me rodean; una banda de malvados me cerca. Me han herido las manos y los pies.
Read in context · La Biblia en Español Sencillo, traducida y editada por Irma Flores (AudioBiblia.org).
Greek
Scholarly edition
LXX Brenton's Greek Septuagint In this text: Psalm 21:17
Ὅτι ἐκύκλωσάν με κύνες πολλοὶ, συναγωγὴ πονηρευομένων περιέσχον με· ὤρυξαν χεῖράς μου, καὶ πόδας,
Hebrew
Scholarly edition
WLC Westminster Leningrad Codex In this text: Psalm 22:17
כִּ֥י סְבָב֗וּנִי כְּלָ֫בִ֥ים עֲדַ֣ת מְ֭רֵעִים הִקִּיפ֑וּנִי כָּ֝אֲרִ֗י יָדַ֥י וְרַגְלָֽי׃
Latin
Catholic
VUL Clementine Vulgate In this text: Psalm 21:17
Quoniam circumdederunt me canes multi; concilium malignantium obsedit me. Foderunt manus meas et pedes meos;
Church Slavonic
Orthodox
Slavonic Church Slavonic Bible (Elizabeth Bible) In this text: Psalm 21:17
Ꙗ҆́кѡ ѡ҆быдо́ша мѧ̀ псѝ мно́зи, со́нмъ лꙋка́выхъ ѡ҆держа́ша мѧ̀: и҆скопа́ша рꙋ́цѣ моѝ и҆ но́зѣ моѝ.
Read in context · Church Slavonic text: Ponomar Project (github.com/typiconman/ponomar), © 2006–2018 Aleksandr Andreev and others, licensed under the GNU General Public License v3 or later. Changes for this site (2026-10-18): lectionary pericope markers, marginal glosses and the closing note of Genesis removed, Psalm verses renumbered to the Russian Synodal numbering, joined verses noted; the words are unchanged.
Russian
Orthodox
Synodal Russian Synodal Bible (1876) In this text: Psalm 21:17
Ибо псы окружили меня, скопище злых обступило меня, пронзили руки мои и ноги мои.
Greek (modern)
Individual translator
Vamvas Modern Greek Bible: Vamvas (1850)
Διότι κύνες με περιεκύκλωσαν· σύναξις πονηρευομένων με περιέκλεισεν· ετρύπησαν τας χείρας μου και τους πόδας μου·
Serbian
Individual translator
DK Serbian Bible: Daničić–Karadžić (Cyrillic)
Опколише ме пси многи; чета зликоваца иде око мене, прободоше руке моје и ноге моје.
DK latinica Serbian Bible: Daničić–Karadžić (Latin script)
Opkoliše me psi mnogi; četa zlikovaca ide oko mene, probodoše ruke moje i noge moje.
Arabic
Protestant
SVD Arabic Bible: Smith–Van Dyck (1865)
لِأَنَّهُ قَدْ أَحَاطَتْ بِي كِلَابٌ. جَمَاعَةٌ مِنَ ٱلْأَشْرَارِ ٱكْتَنَفَتْنِي. ثَقَبُوا يَدَيَّ وَرِجْلَيَّ.
Not in these translations (8)
Tyndale, Scío, PT1904, PT, RP2018, TR, Nestle 1904, SBLGNT