For the music director, to be accompanied by stringed instruments; a psalm of David. When I call out, answer me, O God who vindicates me! Though I am hemmed in, you will lead me into a wide, open place. Have mercy on me and respond to my prayer!

He brought me out to a spacious place;
He rescued me because He delighted in me.

I saw their mouths wide open, like lions crying after food.

You do not deliver me over to the power of the enemy; you enable me to stand in a wide open place.

You have made the land quake, You have split it open;
Heal its rifts, for it shakes and totters.

You allowed men to ride over our heads; we passed through fire and water, but you brought us out into a wide open place.

In my distress I cried out to the Lord. The Lord answered me and put me in a wide open place.

I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.

They open their mouths wide against me;
They say, “Aha, aha, our eyes have seen it!”

All [who] see me mock me. They open wide [their] lips; they shake [the] head, [saying]:

My mouth was open wide, waiting with great desire for your teachings.