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Psalms 7:2
2Like a lion they will tear me to pieces and drag me off with no one to rescue me.
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 Lord my God, I have taken refuge in you. Save me, and rescue me from all who are pursuing me. Like a lion they will tear me to pieces and drag me off with no one to rescue me. 3O Lord my God, if I have done this— if my hands are stained with injustice, 4if I have paid back my friend with evil or rescued someone who has no reason to attack me—
Read all of Psalms 7Psalms 7:2 word by word
פֶּן־יִטְרֹ֣ף כְּאַרְיֵ֣ה נַפְשִׁ֑י פֹּ֝רֵ֗ק וְאֵ֣ין מַצִּֽיל׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 7:2
- Psalms 35:15Yet, when I stumbled, they rejoiced and gathered together. They gathered together against me. Unknown attackers tore me apart without stopping.
- Isaiah 38:13I cried out until morning as if a lion had crushed all my bones. You ended my life in one day.
- Psalms 10:9He lies in his hiding place like a lion in his den. He hides there to catch oppressed people. He catches oppressed people when he draws them into his net.
- Psalms 17:12Each one of them is like a lion eager to tear ⌞its prey⌟ apart and like a young lion crouching in hiding places.
- Psalms 22:13They have opened their mouths to attack me like ferocious, roaring lions.
- Deuteronomy 33:20About the tribe of Gad he said, “Blessed is the one who gives the people of Gad more land. They wait there like a lion. They can tear off an arm or a head.
- Proverbs 19:12The rage of a king is like the roar of a lion, but his favor is like dew on the grass.
- 2 Timothy 4:17However, the Lord stood by me and gave me strength so that I could finish spreading the Good News for all the nations to hear. I was snatched out of a lion’s mouth.
- 1 Peter 5:8Keep your mind clear, and be alert. Your opponent the devil is prowling around like a roaring lion as he looks for someone to devour.
- Psalms 50:22Consider this, you people who forget God. Otherwise, I will tear you to pieces, and there will be no one left to rescue you.
- Hosea 13:7So I will be like a lion. Like a leopard I will wait by the road to ambush you.
- Judges 18:28There was no one to rescue them because their city was far from Sidon and totally independent. The city was in the valley that belonged to Beth Rehob. The people of Dan rebuilt the city and lived in it.
- 2 Samuel 14:6I had two sons who quarreled in the field, and there was no one to separate them. One killed the other.
- Job 10:7You know I’m not guilty, but there is no one to rescue me from your hands.
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
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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
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