Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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

Bible References

Lest

Psalm 35:15
But at my stumbling they rejoiced and gathered themselves together;
The smiters whom I did not know gathered together against me,
They slandered me without ceasing.
Isaiah 38:13
“I composed my soul until morning.
Like a lion—so He breaks all my bones,
From day until night You make an end of me.

Like

Psalm 10:9
He lurks in a hiding place as a lion in his lair;
He lurks to catch the afflicted;
He catches the afflicted when he draws him into his net.
Psalm 17:12
He is like a lion that is eager to tear,
And as a young lion lurking in hiding places.
Psalm 22:13
They open wide their mouth at me,
As a ravening and a roaring lion.
Deuteronomy 33:20
Of Gad he said,
“Blessed is the one who enlarges Gad;
He lies down as a lion,
And tears the arm, also the crown of the head.
Proverbs 19:12
The king’s wrath is like the roaring of a lion,
But his favor is like dew on the grass.
2 Timothy 4:17
But the Lord stood with me and strengthened me, so that through me the proclamation might be fully accomplished, and that all the Gentiles might hear; and I was rescued out of the lion’s mouth.
1 Peter 5:8
Be of sober spirit, be on the alert. Your adversary, the devil, prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.

Rending

Psalm 50:22
“Now consider this, you who forget God,
Or I will tear you in pieces, and there will be none to deliver.
Hosea 13:7
So I will be like a lion to them;
Like a leopard I will lie in wait by the wayside.

While

Judges 18:28
And there was no one to deliver them, because it was far from Sidon and they had no dealings with anyone, and it was in the valley which is near Beth-rehob. And they rebuilt the city and lived in it.
2 Samuel 14:6
Your maidservant had two sons, but the two of them struggled together in the field, and there was no one to separate them, so one struck the other and killed him.