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Contemporary English Version

Psalms 22:13

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

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Jesus, the Christ;   Jesus Continued;   Lion;   Persecution;   The Topic Concordance - Jesus Christ;   Suffering;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Lion, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Psalms, the Book of;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Psalms, book of;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Aijeleth Shahar;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Raven, Ravin;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Aijeleth Hash-Shahar;   Atonement;   English Versions;   Greek Versions of Ot;   Psalms;   Ravin;   Sin;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Bashan ;   Dan;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Cedron;   Naphtali;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Messiah;   Psalms the book of;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Ox;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Lion;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Raven;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Bashan;   Eschatology;   Lion;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
They open their mouths against me—lions, mauling and roaring.
Hebrew Names Version
They open their mouths wide against me, Lions tearing prey and roaring.
King James Version
They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.
English Standard Version
they open wide their mouths at me, like a ravening and roaring lion.
New Century Version
Like hungry, roaring lions they open their mouths at me.
New English Translation
They open their mouths to devour me like a roaring lion that rips its prey.
Amplified Bible
They open wide their mouths against me, Like a ravening and a roaring lion.
New American Standard Bible
They open their mouths wide at me, As a ravening and roaring lion.
World English Bible
They open their mouths wide against me, Lions tearing prey and roaring.
Geneva Bible (1587)
They gape vpon me with their mouthes, as a ramping and roaring lyon.
Legacy Standard Bible
They open wide their mouth at me,As a lion that tears and roars.
Berean Standard Bible
They open their jaws against me like lions that roar and maul.
Complete Jewish Bible
Many bulls surround me, wild bulls of Bashan close in on me.
Darby Translation
They gape upon me with their mouth, [as] a ravening and a roaring lion.
Easy-to-Read Version
Their mouths are opened wide, like a lion roaring and tearing at its prey.
George Lamsa Translation
Their mouths snarl against me, as a ravening and roaring lion.
Good News Translation
They open their mouths like lions, roaring and tearing at me.
Lexham English Bible
They open their mouth against me like a lion tearing and roaring.
Literal Translation
They opened their mouth on Me, like a lion ripping and roaring.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
They gape vpon me with their mouthes, as it were a rampinge and roaringe lyon.
American Standard Version
They gape upon me with their mouth, As a ravening and a roaring lion.
Bible in Basic English
I saw their mouths wide open, like lions crying after food.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Many bulls have encompassed me; strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.
King James Version (1611)
They gaped vpon me with their mouthes, as a rauening and a roaring Lyon.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
They gape vpon me with their mouthes: as it were a rampyng and a roryng lion.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
They have opened their mouth against me, as a ravening and roaring lion.
English Revised Version
They gape upon me with their mouth, as a ravening and a roaring lion.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Thei openyden her mouth on me; as doith a lioun rauyschynge and rorynge.
Update Bible Version
They gape on me with their mouth, [As] a ravening and a roaring lion.
Webster's Bible Translation
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 Living Translation
Like lions they open their jaws against me, roaring and tearing into their prey.
New Life Bible
They open their mouths wide against me, like a loud, hungry lion.
New Revised Standard
they open wide their mouths at me, like a ravening and roaring lion.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
They have opened wide against me their mouth, A lion rending and roaring.
Douay-Rheims Bible
(21-14) have opened their mouths against me, as a lion ravening and roaring.
Revised Standard Version
they open wide their mouths at me, like a ravening and roaring lion.
Young's Literal Translation
They have opened against me their mouth, A lion tearing and roaring.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
They open wide their mouth at me, As a ravening and a roaring lion.

Contextual Overview

11 Don't stay far off when I am in trouble with no one to help me. 12 Enemies are all around like a herd of wild bulls. Powerful bulls from Bashan are everywhere. 13 My enemies are like lions roaring and attacking with jaws open wide. 14 I have no more strength than a few drops of water. All my bones are out of joint; my heart is like melted wax. 15 My strength has dried up like a broken clay pot, and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You, God, have left me to die in the dirt. 16 Brutal enemies attack me like a pack of dogs, tearing at my hands and my feet. 17 I can count all my bones, and my enemies just stare and sneer at me. 18 They took my clothes and gambled for them. 19 Don't stay far away, Lord ! My strength comes from you, so hurry and help. 20 Rescue me from enemy swords and save me from those dogs.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

gaped: etc. Heb. opened their mouths against me, Psalms 22:7, Psalms 35:21, Job 16:10, Lamentations 2:16, Lamentations 3:46, Matthew 26:3, Matthew 26:4, Matthew 26:59-65

as a: Psalms 22:21, Psalms 7:2, Psalms 17:12, Psalms 35:17, Ezekiel 22:27, Ezekiel 22:28, 1 Peter 5:8

Reciprocal: Leviticus 2:9 - an offering Leviticus 8:28 - Moses Psalms 18:4 - floods Psalms 57:4 - among Psalms 68:30 - multitude Psalms 124:2 - when men Isaiah 57:4 - draw Matthew 27:41 - General Mark 10:34 - mock Luke 11:39 - ravening Luke 11:53 - to urge Luke 22:63 - mocked Luke 23:5 - they Luke 23:23 - General Luke 23:35 - the people

Cross-References

Genesis 22:6
Abraham put the wood on Isaac's shoulder, but he carried the hot coals and the knife. As the two of them walked along,
Genesis 22:7
Isaac said, "Father, we have the coals and the wood, but where is the lamb for the sacrifice?" "My son," Abraham answered, "God will provide the lamb." The two of them walked on, and
Genesis 22:9
when they reached the place that God had told him about, Abraham built an altar and placed the wood on it. Next, he tied up his son and put him on the wood.
Genesis 22:10
He then took the knife and got ready to kill his son.
Genesis 22:19
Abraham and Isaac went back to the servants who had come with him, and they returned to Abraham's home in Beersheba.
Genesis 22:20
Abraham's brother Nahor had married Milcah, and Abraham was later told that they had eight sons. Uz was their first-born; Buz was next, and then there was Kemuel who became the father of Aram; their other five sons were: Chesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph, and Bethuel, who became the father of Rebekah.
Isaiah 30:21
Whether you turn to the right or to the left, you will hear a voice saying, "This is the road! Now follow it."
1 Corinthians 10:13
You are tempted in the same way that everyone else is tempted. But God can be trusted not to let you be tempted too much, and he will show you how to escape from your temptations.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

They gaped upon me [with] their mouths,.... Either by way of derision and contempt, Job 16:10; or belching out blasphemy against him, or rather, with the greatest vehemency, crying out "Crucify him, crucify him", Luke 23:21; and this they did

[as] a ravening and roaring lion, when it has got its prey and rejoices, Amos 3:4; and being in such hands, and encompassed about with such enemies, as Christ was in the garden, in the high priest's hall, and in Pilate's judgment hall, is a third reason or argument used by him with God his Father, to be near to him and not far from him.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

They gaped upon me with their mouths - Margin, as in Hebrew, “opened their mouths against me.” That is, they opened their mouths wide as if they would devour me, as a lion does when he seizes upon his prey. In Psalms 22:7 they are represented as “opening” the mouth for another purpose - that of derision or scorn; here they are described as if they were fierce and wild beasts ready to fall upon their prey.

As a ravening and roaring lion - The word “ravening” means “voraciously devouring,” and the allusion in the Hebrew word is to the lion as he tears his prey - טרף ṭâraph - rending it in pieces to devour it. All this is designed to denote the greediness with which the enemies of the Redeemer sought his life.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 22:13. They gaped upon me — They were fiercely and madly beat on my destruction.


 
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