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Psalms 22:13 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" They open their mouths wide against me, lions tearing prey and roaring. "
Psalms 22:13
Verse in Context
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11 Don’t be far from me, for trouble is near. For there is no one to help.
12 Many bulls have surrounded me. Strong bulls of Bashan have encircled me.
13 They open their mouths wide against me, lions tearing prey and roaring.
14 I am poured out like water. All my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax. It is melted within me.
15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd. My tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You have brought me into the dust of death.
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Psalms 22:1
"My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning?"
Psalms 22:2
"My God, I cry in the daytime, but you don’t answer; in the night season, and am not silent."
Psalms 22:3
"But you are holy, you who inhabit the praises of Israel."
Psalms 22:4
"Our fathers trusted in you. They trusted, and you delivered them."
Psalms 22:5
"They cried to you, and were delivered. They trusted in you, and were not disappointed."
Psalms 22:6
"But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised by the people."
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