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Psalms 22:13

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22:13 They 1  open their mouths to devour me 2 

like a roaring lion that rips its prey. 3 

1 tn “They” refers to the psalmist’s enemies, who in the previous verse are described as “powerful bulls.”

2 tn Heb “they open against me their mouth[s].” To “open the mouth against” is a Hebrew idiom associated with eating and swallowing (see Ezek 2:8; Lam 2:16).

3 tn Heb “a lion ripping and roaring.”



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