Psalms 22:13

They ¹  open their mouths to devour me ²  like a roaring lion that rips its prey. ³ 

Job 16:10; Ps 7:2; Ps 17:12; Ps 22:7; Ps 22:21; Ps 35:17; Ps 35:21; La 2:16; La 3:46; Eze 22:27,28; Mt 26:3,4,59-65; 1Pe 5:8

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.”