King James Version
Psalms 7:2
Psalms 7:2 in other versions
- 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.
- New Living Translation (NLT)If you don’t, they will maul me like a lion, tearing me to pieces with no one to rescue me.
Context of Psalms 7:2
1O 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. 3O Lord 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 is mine enemy:)
Read all of Psalms 7Psalms 7:2 word by word
פֶּן־יִטְרֹ֣ף כְּאַרְיֵ֣ה נַפְשִׁ֑י פֹּ֝רֵ֗ק וְאֵ֣ין מַצִּֽיל׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Psalms 7:2
- Psalms 35:15But 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:
- Isaiah 38:13I 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.
- Psalms 10:9He 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.
- Psalms 17:12Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.
- Psalms 22:13They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.
- Deuteronomy 33:20And 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.
- Proverbs 19:12The king’s wrath is as the roaring of a lion; but his favour is as dew upon the grass.
- 2 Timothy 4:17Notwithstanding 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.
- 1 Peter 5:8Be sober, be vigilant; because 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 I will be unto them as a lion: as a leopard by the way will I observe them:
- Judges 18:28And there was no deliverer, because it was far from Zidon, and they had no business with any man; and it was in the valley that lieth by Beth–rehob. And they built a 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 slew him.
- Job 10:7Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of thine 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
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Notes
- 1. Psalms 7:2 none…: Heb. not a deliverer ↩
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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