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 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 38:13
I 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.

Like

Psalm 10:9
He 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.
Psalm 17:12
Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.
Psalm 22:13
They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.
Deuteronomy 33:20
And 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 19:12
The king's wrath is as the roaring of a lion; but his favour is as dew upon the grass.
2 Timothy 4:17
Notwithstanding 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 5:8
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:

Rending

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

While

Judges 18:28
And 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 Bethrehob. And they built a city, and dwelt therein.
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 slew him.

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