Psalm 22:13
New International Version
Roaring lions that tear their prey open their mouths wide against me.

New Living Translation
Like lions they open their jaws against me, roaring and tearing into their prey.

English Standard Version
they open wide their mouths at me, like a ravening and roaring lion.

Berean Standard Bible
They open their jaws against me like lions that roar and maul.

King James Bible
They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.

New King James Version
They gape at Me with their mouths, Like a raging and roaring lion.

New American Standard Bible
They open their mouths wide at me, As a ravening and roaring lion.

NASB 1995
They open wide their mouth at me, As a ravening and a roaring lion.

NASB 1977
They open wide their mouth at me, As a ravening and a roaring lion.

Legacy Standard Bible
They open wide their mouth at me, As a lion that tears and roars.

Amplified Bible
They open wide their mouths against me, Like a ravening and a roaring lion.

Christian Standard Bible
They open their mouths against me — lions, mauling and roaring.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
They open their mouths against me— lions, mauling and roaring.

American Standard Version
They gape upon me with their mouth, As a ravening and a roaring lion.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
They opened their mouths against me like a lion that roars and plunders.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
They have opened their mouth against me, as a ravening and roaring lion.

Contemporary English Version
My enemies are like lions roaring and attacking with jaws open wide.

Douay-Rheims Bible
They have opened their mouths against me, as a lion ravening and roaring.

English Revised Version
They gape upon me with their mouth, as a ravening and a roaring lion.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
They have opened their mouths to attack me like ferocious, roaring lions.

Good News Translation
They open their mouths like lions, roaring and tearing at me.

International Standard Version
Their mouths are opened wide toward me, like roaring and attacking lions.

JPS Tanakh 1917
They open wide their mouth against me, As a ravening and a roaring lion.

Literal Standard Version
They have opened their mouth against Me, | A lion tearing and roaring.

Majority Standard Bible
They open their jaws against me like lions that roar and maul.

New American Bible
They open their mouths against me, lions that rend and roar.

NET Bible
They open their mouths to devour me like a roaring lion that rips its prey.

New Revised Standard Version
they open wide their mouths at me, like a ravening and roaring lion.

New Heart English Bible
They open their mouths wide against me, like lions tearing prey and roaring.

Webster's Bible Translation
They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.

World English Bible
They open their mouths wide against me, lions tearing prey and roaring.

Young's Literal Translation
They have opened against me their mouth, A lion tearing and roaring.

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Context
The Psalm of the Cross
12Many bulls surround me; strong bulls of Bashan encircle me. 13They open their jaws against me like lions that roar and maul. 14I am poured out like water, and all my bones are disjointed. My heart is like wax; it melts away within me.…

Cross References
Job 16:10
They open their mouths against me and strike my cheeks with contempt; they join together against me.

Psalm 10:9
He lies in wait like a lion in a thicket; he lurks to seize the oppressed; he catches the lowly in his net.

Psalm 17:12
like a lion greedy for prey, like a young lion lurking in ambush.

Psalm 22:21
Save me from the mouth of the lion; at the horns of the wild oxen You have answered me!

Psalm 35:21
They gape at me and say, "Aha, aha! Our eyes have seen!"

Lamentations 2:16
All your enemies open their mouths against you. They hiss and gnash their teeth, saying, "We have swallowed her up. This is the day for which we have waited. We have lived to see it!"

Lamentations 3:46
All our enemies open their mouths against us.


Treasury of Scripture

They gaped on me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.

gaped.

Psalm 22:7
All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,

Job 16:10
They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.

Lamentations 2:16
All thine enemies have opened their mouth against thee: they hiss and gnash the teeth: they say, We have swallowed her up: certainly this is the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen it.

as a

Psalm 22:21
Save me from the lion's mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns.

Psalm 7:2
Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.

Psalm 17:12
Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.

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9. He prays in great distress
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(13) Ravening.--Literally, tearing in pieces. (Comp. Lamentations 2:15-16; Lamentations 3:10.)

Roaring.--Comp. Amos 3:4.

Verse 13. - They gaped upon me with their mouths. One metaphor is superseded by another. Fierce and threatening as bulls, the adversaries are ravenous as lions. They "gape with their mouths," eager to devour, ready to spring on the prey and crush it in their monstrous jaws. As a ravening and a roaring lion. The tumult and noise made by those who demanded our Lord's death are noted by the evangelist, περισσῶς ἔκραζον - θόρυβος γίνεται (Matthew 27:23, 24).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
They open
פָּצ֣וּ (pā·ṣū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 6475: To rend, open

their jaws
פִּיהֶ֑ם (pî·hem)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 6310: The mouth, edge, portion, side, according to

against me
עָלַ֣י (‘ā·lay)
Preposition | first person common singular
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against

like lions
אַ֝רְיֵ֗ה (’ar·yêh)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 738: A lion

that roar
וְשֹׁאֵֽג׃ (wə·šō·’êḡ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's 7580: To rumble, moan

and maul.
טֹרֵ֥ף (ṭō·rêp̄)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's 2963: To pluck off, pull to pieces, to supply with food


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