Psalms 22:13

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 35:21 : 21 Their mouths were open wide against me, and they said, Aha, aha, our eyes have seen it.
  • Lam 2:16 : 16 All your haters are opening their mouths wide against you; making hisses and whistling through their teeth, they say, We have made a meal of her: certainly this is the day we have been looking for; it has come, we have seen it.
  • Lam 3:46 : 46 The mouths of all our haters are open wide against us.
  • Ps 17:12 : 12 Like a lion desiring its food, and like a young lion waiting in secret places.
  • Job 16:10 : 10 Their mouths are open wide against me; the blows of his bitter words are falling on my face; all of them come together in a mass against me.
  • Ps 7:2 : 2 So that he may not come rushing on my soul like a lion, wounding it, while there is no one to be my saviour.
  • Ps 22:7 : 7 I am laughed at by all those who see me: pushing out their lips and shaking their heads they say,
  • Ps 22:21 : 21 Be my saviour from the lion's mouth; let me go free from the horns of the cruel oxen.
  • Ps 35:17 : 17 Lord, how long will you be looking on? take my soul from their destruction, my life from the lions.
  • Ezek 22:27-28 : 27 Her rulers in her are like wolves violently taking their food; putting men to death and causing the destruction of souls, so that they may get their profit. 28 And her prophets have been using whitewash, seeing foolish visions and making false use of secret arts, saying, This is what the Lord has said, when the Lord has said nothing.
  • Matt 26:3-4 : 3 Then the chief priests and the rulers of the people came together in the house of the high priest, who was named Caiaphas. 4 And they made designs together to take Jesus by some trick, and put him to death.
  • Matt 26:59-65 : 59 Now the chief priests and all the Sanhedrin were looking for false witness against Jesus, so that they might put him to death; 60 And they were not able to get it, though a number of false witnesses came. 61 But later there came two who said, This man said, I am able to give the Temple of God to destruction, and to put it up again in three days. 62 And the high priest got up and said to him, Have you no answer? what is it which these say against you? 63 But Jesus said not a word. And the high priest said to him, I put you on oath, by the living God, that you will say to us if you are the Christ, the Son of God. 64 Jesus says to him, You say so: but I say to you, From now you will see the Son of man seated at the right hand of power, and coming on the clouds of heaven. 65 Then the high priest, violently parting his robes, said, He has said evil against God: what more need have we of witnesses? for now his words against God have come to your ears:
  • 1 Pet 5:8 : 8 Be serious and keep watch; the Evil One, who is against you, goes about like a lion with open mouth in search of food;

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 22:12
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    12 A great herd of oxen is round me: I am shut in by the strong oxen of Bashan.

  • Ps 17:11-12
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    81%

    11 They have made a circle round our steps: their eyes are fixed on us, forcing us down to the earth;

    12 Like a lion desiring its food, and like a young lion waiting in secret places.

  • Job 16:9-10
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    9 I am broken by his wrath, and his hate has gone after me; he has made his teeth sharp against me: my haters are looking on me with cruel eyes;

    10 Their mouths are open wide against me; the blows of his bitter words are falling on my face; all of them come together in a mass against me.

  • Lam 3:10-11
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    78%

    10 He is like a bear waiting for me, like a lion in secret places.

    11 By him my ways have been turned on one side and I have been pulled in bits; he has made me waste.

  • Isa 5:29-30
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    29 The sound of their armies will be like the voice of a lion, and their war-cry like the noise of young lions: with loud cries they will come down on their food and will take it away safely, and there will be no one to take it out of their hands.

    30 And his voice will be loud over him in that day like the sounding of the sea: and if a man's eyes are turned to the earth, it is all dark and full of trouble; and the light is made dark by thick clouds.

  • Ps 35:15-17
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    15 But they took pleasure in my trouble, and came together, yes, low persons came together against me without my knowledge; they never came to an end of wounding me.

    16 Like men of deceit they put me to shame; the voice of their wrath was loud against me.

    17 Lord, how long will you be looking on? take my soul from their destruction, my life from the lions.

  • Hos 13:7-8
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    7 So I will be like a lion to them; as a cruel beast I will keep watch by the road;

    8 I will come face to face with them like a bear whose young ones have been taken from her, and their inmost hearts will be broken; there the dogs will make a meal of them; they will be wounded by the beasts of the field.

  • Ps 22:14-17
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    78%

    14 I am flowing away like water, and all my bones are out of place: my heart is like wax, it has become soft in my body.

    15 My throat is dry like a broken vessel; my tongue is fixed to the roof of my mouth, and the dust of death is on my lips.

    16 Dogs have come round me: I am shut in by the band of evil-doers; they made wounds in my hands and feet.

    17 I am able to see all my bones; their looks are fixed on me:

  • Ps 7:2
    78%

    2 So that he may not come rushing on my soul like a lion, wounding it, while there is no one to be my saviour.

  • Ps 57:4
    78%

    4 My soul is among lions; I am stretched out among those who are on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and whose tongue is a sharp sword.

  • Joel 1:6
    77%

    6 For a nation has come up over my land, strong and without number; his teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he has the back teeth of a great lion.

  • Job 4:10-11
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    10 Though the noise of the lion and the sounding of his voice, may be loud, the teeth of the young lions are broken.

    11 The old lion comes to his end for need of food, and the young of the she-lion go wandering in all directions.

  • Nah 2:11-12
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    11 Everything has been taken from her, all is gone, she has nothing more: the heart is turned to water, the knees are shaking, all are twisted in pain, and colour has gone from all faces.

    12 Where is the lions' hole, the place where the young lions got their food, where the lion and the she-lion were walking with their young, without cause for fear?

  • Isa 38:13
    76%

    13 I am crying out with pain till the morning; it is as if a lion was crushing all my bones.

  • Ps 104:21
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    21 The young lions go thundering after their food; searching for their meat from God.

  • Ps 58:6
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    6 O God, let their teeth be broken in their mouths; let the great teeth of the young lions be pulled out, O Lord.

  • Ps 109:2
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    2 For the mouth of the sinner is open against me in deceit: his tongue has said false things against me.

  • Job 16:13-14
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    13 His bowmen come round about me; their arrows go through my body without mercy; my life is drained out on the earth.

    14 I am broken with wound after wound; he comes rushing on me like a man of war.

  • Job 30:14
    74%

    14 As through a wide broken place in the wall they come on, I am overturned by the shock of their attack.

  • Ps 35:21
    74%

    21 Their mouths were open wide against me, and they said, Aha, aha, our eyes have seen it.

  • Ezek 19:6
    74%

    6 And he went up and down among the lions and became a young lion, learning to go after beasts for his food; and he took men for his meat.

  • Ps 31:13
    74%

    13 False statements against me have come to my ears; fear was on every side: they were talking together against me, designing to take away my life.

  • Ps 22:7
    74%

    7 I am laughed at by all those who see me: pushing out their lips and shaking their heads they say,

  • Num 23:24
    74%

    24 See, Israel comes up like a she-lion, lifting himself up like a lion: he will take no rest till he has made a meal of those he has overcome, drinking the blood of those he has put to death.

  • Ps 27:2
    74%

    2 When evil-doers, even my haters, came on me to put an end to me, they were broken and put to shame.

  • Ps 55:3
    73%

    3 I am troubled because of the voice of the cruel ones, because of the loud cry of the evil-doers; for they put a weight of evil on me, and they are cruel in their hate for me.

  • Jer 51:38
    73%

    38 They will be crying out together like lions, their voices will be like the voices of young lions.

  • Prov 28:15
    73%

    15 Like a loud-voiced lion and a wandering bear, is an evil ruler over a poor people.

  • Jer 2:15
    73%

    15 The young lions have made an outcry against him with a loud voice: they have made his land waste; his towns are burned up, with no one living in them.

  • Ps 17:9
    73%

    9 From the evil-doers who are violent to me, and from those who are round me, desiring my death.

  • Ps 22:1
    73%

    1 <To the chief music-maker on Aijeleth-hash-shahar. A Psalm. Of David.> My God, my God, why are you turned away from me? why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my crying?

  • Ps 118:12
    73%

    12 They are round me like bees; but they are put out like a fire among thorns; for in the name of the Lord I will have them cut down.

  • Job 10:16
    72%

    16 And that if there was cause for pride, you would go after me like a lion; and again put out your wonders against me:

  • Ps 59:7
    72%

    7 See, hate is dropping from their lips; curses are on their tongues: they say, Who gives attention to it?

  • Job 30:10
    72%

    10 I am disgusting to them; they keep away from me, and put marks of shame on me.