They gape upon me with their mouth, As a ravening and a roaring lion.
Be sober, be watchful: your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me; They said, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen it.
All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us.
All thine enemies have opened their mouth wide 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.
He is like a lion that is greedy of his prey, And as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.
They have gaped upon me with their mouth; They have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully: They gather themselves together against me.
Lord, how long wilt thou look on? Rescue my soul from their destructions, My darling from the lions.
Save me from the lion’s mouth; Yea, from the horns of the wild-oxen thou hast answered me.
All they that see me laugh me to scorn: They shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,
Lest they tear my soul like a lion, Rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.