New King James Version
Psalms 7:2
2Lest they tear me like a lion, Rending me in pieces, while there is none to deliver.
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 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 You I put my trust; Save me from all those who persecute me; And deliver me, Lest they tear me like a lion, Rending me in pieces, while there is none to deliver. 3O Lord my God, if I have done this: If there is iniquity in my hands, 4If I have repaid evil to him who was at peace with me, Or have plundered my enemy without cause,
Read all of Psalms 7Psalms 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 my adversity they rejoiced And gathered together; Attackers gathered against me, And I did not know it; They tore at me and did not cease;
- Isaiah 38:13I have considered until morning— Like a lion, So He breaks all my bones; From day until night You make an end of me.
- Psalms 10:9He lies in wait secretly, as a lion in his den; He lies in wait to catch the poor; He catches the poor when he draws him into his net.
- Psalms 17:12As a lion is eager to tear his prey, And like a young lion lurking in secret places.
- Psalms 22:13They gape at Me with their mouths, Like a raging and roaring lion.
- Deuteronomy 33:20And of Gad he said: “Blessed is he who enlarges Gad; He dwells as a lion, And tears the arm and the crown of his head.
- Proverbs 19:12The king’s wrath is like the roaring of a lion, But his favor is like dew on the grass.
- 2 Timothy 4:17But the Lord stood with me and strengthened me, so that the message might be preached fully through me, and that all the Gentiles might hear. Also I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.
- 1 Peter 5:8Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.
- Psalms 50:22“Now consider this, you who forget God, Lest I tear you in pieces, And there be none to deliver:
- Hosea 13:7“So I will be to them like a lion; Like a leopard by the road I will lurk;
- Judges 18:28There was no deliverer, because it was far from Sidon, and they had no ties with anyone. It was in the valley that belongs to Beth Rehob. So they rebuilt the city and dwelt there.
- 2 Samuel 14:6Now your maidservant had two sons; and the two fought with each other in the field, and there was no one to part them, but the one struck the other and killed him.
- Job 10:7Although You know that I am not wicked, And there is no one who can deliver from Your 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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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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