Psalms 7:2
1 O LORD my God, in thee do I put my trust: save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me:
Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.
3 O LORD my God, if I have done this; if there be iniquity in my hands;
4 If I have rewarded evil unto him that was at peace with me; (yea, I have delivered him that without cause is mine enemy:)
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- or they will shred my soul like a lion and tear me to pieces with no one to rescue me.
- KJV
- Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.
- WEB
- lest they tear apart my soul like a lion, ripping it in pieces, while there is no one to deliver.
- ASV
- Lest they tear my soul like a lion, Rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.
- DARBY
- Lest he tear my soul like a lion, crushing it while there is no deliverer.
- BLB
- lest they tear my soul like a lion, tearing apart, and there is no one snatching me up.
- ÅB
- for at ikke fienden skal rive sjelen min i filler som en løve;
rive i stykker, uten at noen redder meg! - OTB
- Ellers vil han rive min sjel som en løve,
Dra meg bort, mens det ikke er noen som redder. - B1930
- forat ikke fienden skal sønderrive min sjel som en løve, sønderbryte, og det er ingen som redder!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 50:22
Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.
Read in context2 Timothy 4:17
Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that by me the preaching might be fully known, and that all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.
Read in contextIsaiah 38:13
I reckoned till morning, that, as a lion, so will he break all my bones: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
Read in context1 Peter 5:8
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
Read in contextDeuteronomy 33:20
And of Gad he said, Blessed be he that enlargeth Gad: he dwelleth as a lion, and teareth the arm with the crown of the head.
Read in contextPsalms 35:15
But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: yea, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not:
Read in contextPsalms 10:9
He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net.
Read in contextProverbs 19:12
The king’s wrath is as the roaring of a lion; but his favour is as dew upon the grass.
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