Psalms 22:13
They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.
Psalms 22:13 in other translations
| BSB | They open their jaws against me like lions that roar and maul. |
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| WEB | They open their mouths wide against me, lions tearing prey and roaring. |
| ASV | They gape upon me with their mouth, As a ravening and a roaring lion. |
| YLT | They have opened against me their mouth, A lion tearing and roaring. |
| DARBY | They gape upon me with their mouth, as a ravening and a roaring lion. |
| BBE | I saw their mouths wide open, like lions crying after food. |
| Webster | They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion. |
What does Psalms 22:13 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 22:12-13
12-13. His enemies, with the vigor of bulls and rapacity of lions, surround him, eagerly seeking his ruin. The force of both figures is greater without the use of any particle denoting comparison.
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 22:11-21
In these verses we have Christ suffering, and Christ praying; by which we are directed to look for crosses, and to look up to God under them. The very manner of Christ's death is described, though not in use among the Jews. They pierced his hands and his feet, which were nailed to the accursed tree, and his whole body was left so to hang as to suffer the most severe pain and torture. His natural force failed, being…
Psalms 22:13 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Psalms 22:13
- 1 Peter 5:8
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
- Psalms 35:21
Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, and said, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen it.
- Psalms 17:12
Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.
- Lamentations 3:46
All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.
- 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.
- Matthew 26:3-4
Then assembled together the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people, unto the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas, And consulted that they might take Jesus by subtilty, and kill him.
- Matthew 26:59-65
Now the chief priests, and elders, and all the council, sought false witness against Jesus, to put him to death; But found none: yea, though many false witnesses came, yet found they none. At the last came two false witnesses, And said, This fellow said, I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days. And the high priest arose, and said unto him, Answerest thou nothing? what is it which these witness against thee? …
- 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.
- Psalms 22:21
Save me from the lion’s mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns.
- Psalms 7:2
Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.
- Psalms 35:17
Lord, how long wilt thou look on? rescue my soul from their destructions, my darling from the lions.
- Ezekiel 22:27-28
Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain. And her prophets have daubed them with untempered morter, seeing vanity, and divining lies unto them, saying, Thus saith the Lord God, when the Lord hath not spoken.
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Context
- Psalms 22:12
Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.
- Psalms 22:13
They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.
- Psalms 22:14
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.
Psalms 22:13 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Abrieron sobre mí su boca, como león rapante y rugiente. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Beaucoup de taureaux m’ont environné, des puissants de Basan m’ont entouré; |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Sie haben ihr Maul wider mich aufgesperrt, gleich einem reißenden und brüllenden Löwen. |