^{12 Ref} Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.

^{13 Ref} They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.

^{14 Ref} I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.

^{15 Ref} My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.

^{16 Ref} For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.

^{17 Ref} I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me.

^{18 Ref} They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.

^{19 Ref} But be not thou far from me, O LORD: O my strength, haste thee to help me.

^{20 Ref} Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog.

^{21 Ref} Save me from the lion's mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns.