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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Psalm 22:16 Catholic Bible: An evil gang is around me; like a pack of dogs they close in on me; they tear at my hands and feet. </title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/catholic/psalms/22-16.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/15002new8.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../vmenus/psalms/22-16.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/psalms/22-16.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/catholic/">Bible</a> > <a href="/gntd/psalms/1.htm">Psalms</a> > <a href="/gntd/psalms/22.htm">Chapter 22</a> > Verse 16</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div><div id="ad1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/ad1.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../psalms/22-15.htm" title="Psalm 22:15">◄</a> Psalm 22:16 {21:17} <a href="../psalms/22-17.htm" title="Psalm 22:17">►</a></div></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/nabre/psalms/22.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#552200" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gntd/psalms/22.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />An evil gang is around me; like a pack of dogs they close in on me; they tear at my hands and feet. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/psalms/22.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />For dogs are all around me; a company of evildoers encircles me. My hands and feet have shriveled;<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cevd/psalms/22.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />Brutal enemies attack me like a pack of dogs, tearing at my hands and my feet. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/psalms/22.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />Dogs surround me; a pack of evildoers closes in on me. They have pierced my hands and my feet <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/psalms/22.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />For many dogs have encompassed me: the council of the malignant hath besieged me. They have dug my hands and feet.<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">For many dogs have encompassed me: the council of the malignant hath besieged me. They have dug my hands and feet.</p><p class="hdg">dogs</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/22-1.htm">Psalm 22:1,20</a> Unto the end, for the morning protection, a psalm for David. [2] O God my God, look upon me: why hast thou forsaken me? Far from my salvation are the words of my sins. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/59-6.htm">Psalm 59:6,14</a> They shall return at evening, and shall suffer hunger like dogs: and shall go round about the city. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../matthew/7-6.htm">Matthew 7:6</a> Give not that which is holy to dogs; neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest perhaps they trample them under their feet, and turning upon you, they tear you.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../philippians/3-2.htm">Philippians 3:2</a> Beware of dogs: beware of evil workers: beware of the concision.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../revelation/22-15.htm">Revelation 22:15</a> Without are dogs and sorcerers and unchaste and murderers and servers of idols and every one that loveth and maketh a lie.</p><p class="hdg">compassed</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../luke/11-53.htm">Luke 11:53,54</a> And as he was saying these things to them, the Pharisees and the lawyers began violently to urge him and to oppress his mouth about many things, . . . </p><p class="hdg">assembly</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/86-14.htm">Psalm 86:14</a> O God, the wicked are risen up against me, and the assembly of the mighty have sought my soul: and they have not set thee before their eyes.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../jeremiah/12-6.htm">Jeremiah 12:6</a> For even thy brethren, and the house of thy father, even they have fought against thee, and have cried after thee with full voice: believe them not when they speak good things to thee.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../matthew/26-57.htm">Matthew 26:57</a> But they holding Jesus led him to Caiphas the high priest, where the scribes and the ancients were assembled.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../mark/15-16.htm">Mark 15:16-20</a> And the soldiers led him away into the court of the palace: and they called together the whole band. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../luke/22-63.htm">Luke 22:63-71</a> And the men that held him mocked him and struck him. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../luke/23-4.htm">Luke 23:4,5,10,11,23</a> And Pilate said to the chief priests and to the multitudes: I find no cause in this man. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../zechariah/12-10.htm">Zechariah 12:10</a> And I will pour out upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace, and of prayers: and they shall look upon me, whom they have pierced: and they shall mourn for him as one mourneth for an only son, and they shall grieve over him, as the manner is to grieve for the death of the firstborn.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../matthew/27-35.htm">Matthew 27:35</a> And after they had crucified him, they divided his garments, casting lots; that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying: They divided my garments among them; and upon my vesture they cast lots.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../mark/15-24.htm">Mark 15:24</a> And crucifying him, they divided his garments, casting lots upon them, what every man should take.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../luke/23-33.htm">Luke 23:33</a> And when they were come to the place which is called Calvary, they crucified him there: and the robbers, one on the right hand, and the other on the left.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../john/19-23.htm">John 19:23,37</a> The soldiers therefore, when they had crucified him, took his garments, (and they made four parts, to every soldier a part) and also his coat. Now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../john/20-25.htm">John 20:25,27</a> The other disciples therefore said to him: We have seen the Lord. But he said to them: Except I shall see in his hands the print of the nails and put my finger into the place of the nails and put my hand into his side, I will not believe. . . . </p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/psalms/22.htm">The Psalm of the Cross</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">15</span>My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue hath cleaved to my jaws: and thou hast brought me down into the dust of death. <span class="reftext">16</span><span class="highl">For many dogs have encompassed me: the council of the malignant hath besieged me. They have dug my hands and feet.</span><span class="reftext">17</span>They have numbered all my bones. And they have looked and stared upon me.…<div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../matthew/27-35.htm">Matthew 27:35</a></span><br />And after they had crucified him, they divided his garments, casting lots; that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying: They divided my garments among them; and upon my vesture they cast lots.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../john/20-25.htm">John 20:25</a></span><br />The other disciples therefore said to him: We have seen the Lord. But he said to them: Except I shall see in his hands the print of the nails and put my finger into the place of the nails and put my hand into his side, I will not believe.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../philippians/3-2.htm">Philippians 3:2</a></span><br />Beware of dogs: beware of evil workers: beware of the concision.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../psalms/59-6.htm">Psalm 59:6</a></span><br />They shall return at evening, and shall suffer hunger like dogs: and shall go round about the city.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../psalms/59-7.htm">Psalm 59:7</a></span><br />Behold they shall speak with their mouth, and a sword is in their lips: for who, say they, hath heard us?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../psalms/88-17.htm">Psalm 88:17</a></span><br />They have come round about me like water all the day: they have compassed me about together.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><div class="vheading2">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/isaiah/26-12.htm">Appointest</a> <a href="/psalms/7-7.htm">Assembly</a> <a href="/psalms/18-32.htm">Band</a> <a href="/psalms/14-5.htm">Company</a> <a href="/psalms/22-12.htm">Compassed</a> <a href="/psalms/22-15.htm">Death</a> <a href="/job/35-12.htm">Doers</a> <a href="/job/30-1.htm">Dogs</a> <a href="/psalms/22-15.htm">Dust</a> <a href="/psalms/22-12.htm">Encircled</a> <a href="/psalms/17-10.htm">Enclosed</a> <a href="/psalms/22-12.htm">Encompassed</a> <a href="/psalms/21-11.htm">Evil</a> <a href="/psalms/14-6.htm">Evildoers</a> <a href="/psalms/17-9.htm">Evil-Doers</a> <a href="/psalms/18-39.htm">Feet</a> <a href="/psalms/22-10.htm">Hands</a> <a href="/psalms/17-10.htm">Inclosed</a> <a href="/psalms/17-12.htm">Lion</a> <a href="/job/39-30.htm">Pierced</a> <a href="/hebrews/4-12.htm">Piercing</a> <a href="/1_samuel/26-8.htm">Pin</a> <a href="/psalms/22-12.htm">Round</a> <a href="/psalms/22-12.htm">Shut</a> <a href="/psalms/22-12.htm">Surrounded</a> <a href="/psalms/21-11.htm">Wicked</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/isaiah/26-12.htm">Appointest</a> <a href="/psalms/22-22.htm">Assembly</a> <a href="/psalms/26-5.htm">Band</a> <a href="/psalms/26-5.htm">Company</a> <a href="/psalms/40-12.htm">Compassed</a> <a href="/psalms/23-4.htm">Death</a> <a href="/psalms/26-5.htm">Doers</a> <a href="/psalms/22-20.htm">Dogs</a> <a href="/psalms/22-29.htm">Dust</a> <a href="/psalms/73-6.htm">Encircled</a> <a href="/psalms/119-61.htm">Enclosed</a> <a href="/psalms/40-12.htm">Encompassed</a> <a href="/psalms/23-4.htm">Evil</a> <a href="/psalms/26-5.htm">Evildoers</a> <a href="/psalms/26-5.htm">Evil-Doers</a> <a href="/psalms/25-15.htm">Feet</a> <a href="/psalms/24-4.htm">Hands</a> <a href="/songs/4-12.htm">Inclosed</a> <a href="/psalms/38-8.htm">Lion</a> <a href="/psalms/38-2.htm">Pierced</a> <a href="/proverbs/12-18.htm">Piercing</a> <a href="/ezekiel/15-3.htm">Pin</a> <a href="/psalms/26-6.htm">Round</a> <a href="/psalms/31-8.htm">Shut</a> <a href="/psalms/40-12.htm">Surrounded</a> <a href="/psalms/26-5.htm">Wicked</a><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/psalms/22-16.htm">Psalm 22:16 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/psalms/22-16.htm">Psalm 22:16 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/psalms/22-16.htm">Psalm 22:16 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/psalms/22-16.htm">Psalm 22:16 NASB</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/psalms/22-16.htm">Psalm 22:16 Bible Apps</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/psalms/22-16.htm">Psalm 22:16 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/psalms/22-16.htm">Psalm 22:16 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/psalms/22-16.htm">Psalm 22:16 French Bible</a><br /><a href="//bibeltext.com/psalms/22-16.htm">Psalm 22:16 German Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span>Alphabetical: a and band Dogs encircled encompassed evil evildoers feet For hands has have me men my of pierced surrounded they<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="https://biblehub.com/psalms/22-16.htm">OT Poetry: Psalm 22:16 For dogs have surrounded me (Psalm Ps Psa.) 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