Psalm 7:2 or they will tear me apart like a lion and rip me to pieces with no one to rescue me.

◄ Psalm 7:2 ►

Parallel Verses

New International Version
or they will tear me apart like a lion and rip me to pieces with no one to rescue me.

English Standard Version
lest like a lion they tear my soul apart, rending it in pieces, with none to deliver.

New American Standard Bible
Or he will tear my soul like a lion, Dragging me away, while there is none to deliver.

King James Bible
Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
or they will tear me like a lion, ripping me apart with no one to rescue me.

International Standard Version
Otherwise, they will rip me to shreds like a lion, tearing me apart with no one to rescue me.

American Standard Version
Lest they tear my soul like a lion, Rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Lest at any time he seize upon my soul like a lion, while there is no one to redeem me, nor to save.

Darby Bible Translation
Lest he tear my soul like a lion, crushing it while there is no deliverer.

Young's Literal Translation
Lest he tear as a lion my soul, Rending, and there is no deliverer.

Cross References

Psalm 17:12
Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.

Psalm 35:15
But in my adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: yes, the attackers gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not:

Psalm 50:22
Now consider this, you that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.

Psalm 57:4
My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

Psalm 71:11
Saying, God has forsaken him: persecute and take him; for there is none to deliver him.

Isaiah 38:13
I reckoned till morning, that, as a lion, so will he break all my bones: from day even to night will you make an end of me.

Lamentations 5:8
Servants have ruled over us: there is none that does deliver us out of their hand.

Hosea 5:14
For I will be to Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Judah: I, even I, will tear and go away; I will take away, and none shall rescue him.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

7:1-9 David flees to God for succour. But Christ alone could call on Heaven to attest his uprightness in all things. All His works were wrought in righteousness; and the prince of this world found nothing whereof justly to accuse him. Yet for our sakes, submitting to be charged as guilty, he suffered all evils, but, being innocent, he triumphed over them all. The plea is, For the righteous God trieth the hearts and the reins. He knows the secret wickedness of the wicked, and how to bring it to an end; he is witness to the secret sincerity of the just, and has ways of establishing it. When a man has made peace with God about all his sins, upon the terms of grace and mercy, through the sacrifice of the Mediator, he may, in comparison with his enemies, appeal to God's justice to decide.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

PSALM 7

Ps 7:1-17. Shiggaion—a plaintive song or elegy. Though obscure in details, this title seems to intimate that the occasion of this Psalm was some event in David's persecution by Saul. He prays for relief because he is innocent, and God will be glorified in his vindication. He thus passes to the celebration of God's righteous government, in defending the upright and punishing the wicked, whose malignant devices will result in their own ruin; and, confident of God's aid, he closes with rejoicing.

1, 2. Though many enemies set upon him, one is singled out as prominent, and compared to a wild beast tearing his prey to pieces (compare 1Sa 20:1; 23:23; 26:19).