Psalm 22:7

7 All [who] see me mock me. They open wide [their] lips; they shake [the] head, [saying]:

Psalm 22:7 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 22:7

All they that see me laugh me to scorn
To the afflicted pity should be shown; but instead or pitying him in his distresses they laughed at him; this must be understood of the soldiers when they had him in Pilate's hall, and of the Jews in general when he hung upon the cross; some particular persons must be excepted, as John the beloved disciple, the mother of our Lord, Mary Magdalene, and some other women, who stood afar off beholding him;

they shoot out the lip;
or "open with the lip" ^F25; they made mouths at him, they put out their lips, or gaped upon him with their mouths, and in a way of sport and pastime made wide mouths and drew out their tongues, as in ( Job 16:10 ) ( Isaiah 57:4 ) ;

they shake the head, [saying];
in a way of scorn and derision, as in ( Lamentations 2:15 ) . This was fulfilled in the Jews, ( Matthew 27:39 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F25 (hpvb wryjpy) "hiatum fecerunt labiis suis", Grotius; "they make a mow with their lip", Ainsworth.

Psalm 22:7 In-Context

5 They cried to you and were saved; they trusted you and were not ashamed.

6 But I [am] a worm and not a man, scorned by humankind and despised by people.

7 All [who] see me mock me. They open wide [their] lips; they shake [the] head, [saying]:

8 "{He trusts Yahweh}. Let him rescue him. Let him deliver him because he delights in him."

9 Yet [you] took me from [the] belly; you made me trust [while] on my mother's breasts.