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Myles Coverdale Bible

Psalms 22:13

They gape vpon me with their mouthes, as it were a rampinge and roaringe lyon.

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.
Contemporary English Version
My enemies are like lions roaring and attacking with jaws open wide.
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.
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 O go not fro me the, for trouble is harde at honde, and here is none to helpe me. 12 Greate bulles are come aboute me, fatt oxen close me in on euery syde. 13 They gape vpon me with their mouthes, as it were a rampinge and roaringe lyon. 14 I am poured out like water, all my bones are out of ioynt: my hert in the myddest off my body is euen like meltinge waxe. 15 My strength is dried vp like a potsherde, my tunge cleueth to my goomes, and thou hast brought me in to the dust of death. 16 For dogges are come aboute me, the coucell of ye wicked hath layed sege agaynst me. 17 They pearsed my hondes and my fete, I might haue tolde all my bones: as for them, they stode staringe and lokinge vpon me. 18 They haue parted my garmentes amonge them, ad cast lottes vpon my vesture. 19 But be not thou farre fro me, o LORDE: thou art my sucoure, haist the to helpe me. 20 Delyuer my soule from the swearde, my dearlinge from the power of the dogge.

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
And Abraha toke the wodd to the brentofferynge, and layed it vpon Isaac his sonne. As for him self, he toke the fyre and a knyfe in his hande, and wente on both together.
Genesis 22:7
Then sayde Isaac vnto his father Abraham: My father. Abraham answered: here I am, my sonne. And he sayde: lo, here is fyre and wodd, but where is the shepe for the brentofferynge?
Genesis 22:8
Abraham answered: My sonne, God shall prouyde him a shepe for the brentofferynge. And they wente both together.
Genesis 22:9
And whan they came to the place which God shewed him, Abraham buylded there an altare, and layed the wodd vpon it, and bande his sonne Isaac, layed him on the altare, aboue vpo the wodd,
Genesis 22:10
and stretched out his hande, and toke the knyfe, to haue slayne his sonne.
Genesis 22:19
So Abraham turned ageyne to the yonge men, and they gat vp, and wente together vnto Berseba, and dwelt there.
Genesis 22:20
After these actes it fortuned, that it was tolde Abraham: Beholde, Milca hath borne children also vnto thy brother Nahor:
Isaiah 30:21
and thine eares harken to his worde, that crieth after the and saieth: This is the waye, go this, and turne nether to the right honde nor the leffte.
1 Corinthians 10:13
There hath yet no teptacion ouertaken you, but soch as foloweth the nature of man. Neuertheles God is faithfull, which shal not suffre you to be tempted aboue youre strength, but shal in the myddes of ye temptacion make a waye to come out, that ye maye beare it.

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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