Parallel Verses

American Standard Version

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

New American Standard Bible

Or he will tear my soul like a lion,
Dragging me away, while there is none to deliver.

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

or they will tear me like a lion,
ripping me apart with no one to rescue me.

International Standard Version

Otherwise, they will rip me to shreds like a lion, tearing me apart with no one to rescue me.

A Conservative Version

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

Amplified


So that my enemy will not tear me like a lion,
Dragging me away while there is no one to rescue [me].

Bible in Basic English

So that he may not come rushing on my soul like a lion, wounding it, while there is no one to be my saviour.

Darby Translation

Lest he tear my soul like a lion, crushing it while there is no deliverer.

Julia Smith Translation

Lest he shall rend my soul as the lion, breaking in pieces and none delivering.

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

Or else he will tear me apart like a lion, ripping to pieces, with none [to] deliver.

Modern King James verseion

lest he tear my soul like a lion, tearing it in pieces, and there is no one to deliver.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

lest he devour my soul like a lion, and tear it in pieces, while there is none to help.

NET Bible

Otherwise they will rip me to shreds like a lion; they will tear me to bits and no one will be able to rescue me.

New Heart English Bible

lest they tear apart my soul like a lion, ripping it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.

The Emphasized Bible

Lest one tear, as a lion, my soul, - and there be no deliverer to rescue.

Webster

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

World English Bible

lest they tear apart my soul like a lion, ripping it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.

Youngs Literal Translation

Lest he tear as a lion my soul, Rending, and there is no deliverer.

References

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Context Readings

Prayer For Justice

1 O Jehovah my God, in thee do I take refuge: Save me from all them that pursue me, and deliver me, 2 Lest they tear my soul like a lion, Rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver. 3 O Jehovah my God, if I have done this; If there be iniquity in my hands;

Cross References

Psalm 50:22

Now consider this, ye that forget God, Lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver:

Isaiah 38:13

I quieted myself until morning; as a lion, so he breaketh all my bones: From day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.

Deuteronomy 33:20

And of Gad he said, Blessed be he that enlargeth Gad: He dwelleth as a lioness, And teareth the arm, yea, the crown of the head.

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 lieth by Beth-rehob. And they built the 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 killed him.

Job 10:7

Although thou knowest that I am not wicked, And there is none that can deliver out of thy hand?

Psalm 10:9

He lurketh in secret as a lion in his covert; He lieth in wait to catch the poor: He doth catch the poor, when he draweth 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.

Psalm 35:15

But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: The abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; They did tear me, and ceased not:

Proverbs 19:12

The king's wrath is as the roaring of a lion; But his favor is as dew upon the grass.

Hosea 13:7-8

Therefore am I unto them as a lion; as a leopard will I watch by the way;

2 Timothy 4:17

But the Lord stood by me, and strengthened me; that through me the message might me fully proclaimed, 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 watchful: your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour,

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