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 in my adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together. The wretches gathered themselves together against me, and I knew [it] not. They tore me, and ceased not.
Isaiah 38:13
I quieted [myself] until morning. As a lion, so he breaks all my bones. From day even to night will thou make an end of me.

Like

Psalm 10:9
He lurks in secret as a lion in his covert. He lays in wait to catch the poor man. He catches the poor man when he draws him in his net.
Psalm 17:12
He is like a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.
Psalm 22:13
They gape upon me with their mouth, [as] a ravening and a roaring lion.
Deuteronomy 33:20
And of Gad he said, Blessed be he who enlarges Gad. He dwells as a lioness, and tears the arm, yea, the crown of the head.
Proverbs 19:12
The king's wrath is as the roaring of a lion, but his favor is as dew upon the grass.
2 Timothy 4:17
But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, so that through me the sacred message might be brought to fullness, and all the Gentiles might hear. And I was rescued out of the mouth of the lion.
1 Peter 5:8
Be sober, be vigilant. Your opponent the devil, as a roaring lion, walks about seeking whom to devour.

Rending

Psalm 50:22
Now consider this, ye who forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver:
Hosea 13:7
Therefore I am to them as a lion. As a leopard I will watch by the way.

While

Judges 18:28
And 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 lays by Beth-rehob. And they built the city, and dwelt in it.
2 Samuel 14:6
And 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.