Mazmur 22:13

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

like a roaring lion that rips its prey. ³ 

Mazmur 69:12

69:12 Those who sit at the city gate gossip about me;

drunkards mock me in their songs. ⁴ 

Mazmur 119:51

119:51 Arrogant people do nothing but scoff at me. ⁵ 

Yet I do not turn aside from your law.

[22:13]  ¹ tn “They” refers to the psalmist’s enemies, who in the previous verse are described as “powerful bulls.”

[22:13]  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).

[22:13]  ³ tn Heb “a lion ripping and roaring.”

[69:12]  ⁴ tn Heb “the mocking songs of the drinkers of beer.”

[119:51]  ⁵ tn Heb “scoff at me to excess.”