Psalms 22:13 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 22:13

They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.

KJV

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ASV

They gape upon me with their mouth, Asa ravening and a roaring lion.

WEB

They open their jaws against me like lions that roar and maul.

YLT

They have opened against me their mouth, A lion tearing and roaring.

DBT

They gape upon me with their mouth, [as] a ravening and a roaring lion.

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Psalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.

Author: David principally (73 Psalms + 2 NT-cited); Asaph, Sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan; ~50 anonymous.
Date: Composed c. 1400 BC (Mosaic Ps 90) through the post-exilic period (Ps 126 ''when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion''). Roughly a millennium of composition; editorial compilation likely into the Persian period.

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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.
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.
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 17:12
Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.

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), where David, as a type of Christ, complains of the very calamitous condition he was in upon many accounts. He complains, and mixes comforts with his complaints; he complains (

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

): They gaped upon me with their mouths, to show me that they would swallow me up; and this with as much strength and fierceness as a roaring ravening lion leaps upon his prey." 3. The very manner of his death is described, though never in use among the Jews: They pierced my hands and my feet (

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

PSA 22:131PE 5:8 EPH 6:11
PSA 22:131PE 5:8 JAS 4:7
PSA 22:131PE 5:8 EPH 4:27
PSA 22:131PE 5:8 JOB 2:2
PSA 22:131PE 5:8 1PE 1:13
PSA 22:13JOB 16:10 PSA 35:15
PSA 22:13JOB 16:10 ISA 50:6
PSA 22:13LAM 2:16 PSA 35:21

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