Psalms 7:2

Psalms 7:2 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.
• New International Version (NIV)or they will tear me apart like a lion and rip me to pieces with no one to rescue me.
• English Standard Version (ESV)lest like a lion they tear my soul apart, rending it in pieces, with none to deliver.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Lest they tear me like a lion, Rending me in pieces, while there is none to deliver.

Context of Psalms 7:2

1O Jehovah my God, in thee do I take refuge: Save me from all them that pursue me, and deliver me, Lest they tear my soul like a lion, Rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver. 3O Jehovah my God, if I have done this; If there be iniquity in my hands; 4If I have rewarded evil unto him that was at peace with me (Yea, I have delivered him that without cause was mine adversary);

Psalms 7:2 word by word

פֶּן־יִטְרֹ֣ף כְּאַרְיֵ֣ה נַפְשִׁ֑י פֹּ֝רֵ֗ק וְאֵ֣ין מַצִּֽיל׃Read the interlinear

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Cross-references for Psalms 7:2

• Psalms 35:15But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: The abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; They did tear me, and ceased not:
• Isaiah 38:13I quieted myself until morning; as a lion, so he breaketh all my bones: From day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
• Psalms 10:9He lurketh in secret as a lion in his covert; He lieth in wait to catch the poor: He doth catch the poor, when he draweth him in his net.
• Psalms 17:12He is like a lion that is greedy of his prey, And as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.
• Psalms 22:13They gape upon me with their mouth, Asa ravening and a roaring lion.
• Deuteronomy 33:20And of Gad he said, Blessed be he that enlargeth Gad: He dwelleth as a lioness, And teareth the arm, yea, the crown of the head.
• Proverbs 19:12The king’s wrath is as the roaring of a lion; But his favor is as dew upon the grass.
• 2 Timothy 4:17But the Lord stood by me, and strengthened me; that through me the message might be fully proclaimed, and that all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.
• 1 Peter 5:8Be sober, be watchful: your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
• Psalms 50:22Now consider this, ye that forget God, Lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver:
• Hosea 13:7Therefore am I unto them as a lion; as a leopard will I watch by the way;
• Judges 18:28And there was no deliverer, because it was far from Sidon, and they had no dealings with any man; and it was in the valley that lieth by Beth-rehob. And they built the city, and dwelt therein.
• 2 Samuel 14:6And thy handmaid had two sons, and they two strove together in the field, and there was none to part them, but the one smote the other, and killed him.
• Job 10:7Although thou knowest that I am not wicked, And there is none that can deliver out of thy hand?

Commentaries on Psalms 7:2

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 2Lest he tear my soul like a lion - These words seem to answer well to Saul. As the lion is king in the forest; so was Saul king over the land. As the lion, in his fierceness, seizes at once, and tears his prey in pieces; so David expected to be seized and suddenly destroyed by Saul. He had already, in his rage, thrown his javelin at him, intending to have pierced him to the wall with it. As from the power of the lion no beast in the forest could deliver…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 2Lest he - Lest “Cush” should do this. See the title, and the introduction to the psalm, Section 2. Tear my soul like a lion - Tear or rend my “life” - that is, “me” - like a lion. The word rendered “soul” here - נפשׁ nephesh - refers, as it properly does elsewhere, to the “life,” and not to the soul, as we use the term, denoting the thinking, immortal part. The simple idea is, that David was apprehensive of his “life,” and, in order to indicate his great…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 2Like a lion, a wicked enemy relentlessly and violently pursues its prey (Psalms 10:9; 17:12; 22:13, 21; 35:17; 57:4), but God promises victory (91:13).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-171-2. 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).Read the comment

Topics related to Psalms 7:2

• Afflictions and Adversities
• Lion

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Commentaries on Psalms 7

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• The Treasury of David
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary