Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
They have opened against me their mouth, A lion tearing and roaring.
New American Standard Bible
As a ravening and a roaring
King James Version
They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.
Holman Bible
lions, mauling and roaring.
International Standard Version
Their mouths are opened wide toward me, like roaring and attacking lions.
A Conservative Version
They gape upon me with their mouth, [as] a ravening and a roaring lion.
American Standard Version
They gape upon me with their mouth, As a ravening and a roaring lion.
Amplified
They open wide their mouths against me,
Like a ravening and a roaring lion.
Bible in Basic English
I saw their mouths wide open, like lions crying after food.
Darby Translation
They gape upon me with their mouth, as a ravening and a roaring lion.
Julia Smith Translation
They opened their mouth upon me, a lion rending and roaring.
King James 2000
They gaped on me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.
Lexham Expanded Bible
They open their mouth against me [like] a lion tearing and roaring.
Modern King James verseion
They opened wide their mouths on Me, like a ripping and a roaring lion.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
They gape upon me with their mouths, as it were a rampaging and a roaring lion.
NET Bible
They open their mouths to devour me like a roaring lion that rips its prey.
New Heart English Bible
They open their mouths wide against me, lions tearing prey and roaring.
The Emphasized Bible
They have opened wide against me their mouth, A lion rending and roaring.
Webster
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.
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 22:13
Verse Info
Context Readings
From Suffering To Praise
12 Many bulls have surrounded me, Mighty ones of Bashan have compassed me, 13 They have opened against me their mouth, A lion tearing and roaring. 14 As waters I have been poured out, And separated themselves have all my bones, My heart hath been like wax, It is melted in the midst of my bowels.
Phrases
Cross References
Psalm 35:21
And they enlarge against me their mouth, They said, 'Aha, aha, our eye hath seen.'
Job 16:10
They have gaped on me with their mouth, In reproach they have smitten my cheeks, Together against me they set themselves.
Psalm 17:12
His likeness as a lion desirous to tear, As a young lion dwelling in secret places.
Lamentations 2:16
Opened against thee their mouth have all thine enemies, They have hissed, yea, they gnash the teeth, They have said: 'We have swallowed her up, Surely this is the day that we looked for, We have found -- we have seen.'
Lamentations 3:46
Opened against us their mouth have all our enemies.
Psalm 7:2
Lest he tear as a lion my soul, Rending, and there is no deliverer.
Psalm 22:7
All beholding me do mock at me, They make free with the lip -- shake the head,
Psalm 22:21
Save me from the mouth of a lion: -- And -- from the horns of the high places Thou hast answered me!
Psalm 35:17
Lord, how long dost thou behold? Keep back my soul from their desolations, From young lions my only one.
Ezekiel 22:27-28
Its princes in its midst are as wolves, Tearing prey, to shed blood, to destroy souls, For the sake of gaining dishonest gain.
Matthew 26:3-4
Then were gathered together the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people, to the court of the chief priest who was called Caiaphas;
Matthew 26:59-65
And the chief priests, and the elders, and all the council, were seeking false witness against Jesus, that they might put him to death,
1 Peter 5:8
Be sober, vigilant, because your opponent the devil, as a roaring lion, doth walk about, seeking whom he may swallow up,