Komentarz do Psalmów 22:13

Great bulls Mighty kingdoms.

Bulls have surrounded me: – This is the trouble that is near at hand, that bulls have compassed me – a figure for lusty and powerful and wicked enemies. The interpretation of (רבים is)

the mighty ones of Bashan That too is an expression of the bulls of Bashan, which are fat.

mighty (ones): – that is, great in strength. So also

encompassed me Heb. כתרוני. They encompassed me like a crown (כתר), which encompasses the head.

strong ones of Bashan: – Bashan is a district in the land of Israel, a district of fat and rich pasture, and the cattle that feed there are fat and strong. He compares the wicked enemies with them. And so it says (Amos 4:1) in a figure "kine of Bashan" with reference to the women who oppress the poor, who crush the needy.

have beset me around (כתרוני): – equivalent to have surrounded me; just as the crown (כתר) surrounds (encircles) the head. And so we have (Judges 20:43): "they beset (כתרו) Benjamin around?