Parallel Verses
The Emphasized Bible
Lest one tear, as a lion, my soul, - and there be no deliverer to rescue.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.
Holman Bible
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.
American Standard 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.
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.
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 7:2
Verse Info
Context Readings
Prayer For Justice
1 O Yahweh my God, in thee, have I sought refuge, - Save me from all my pursuers, and deliver me: 2 Lest one tear, as a lion, my soul, - and there be no deliverer to rescue. 3 O Yahweh my God, If I have done this, If there hath been perversity in my hands:
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Psalm 50:22
Understand this, I pray you, ye forgetters of GOD, Lest I tear in pieces, and there be none to deliver: -
Isaiah 38:13
I cried out, until morning, like a lion, Thus, will he break all my bones! From day until night, Thou wilt finish me!
Deuteronomy 33:20
And, of Gad, he said: Blessed, be he that hath made room for Gad, - As a lioness, hath he laid himself down, And hath torn an arm likewise the crown of the head;
Judges 18:28
And there was no one to rescue, because it was, far, from Zidon, and they had no, dealings, with any one, it, being in the vale that pertaineth to Beth-rehob. Then built they the city, and dwelt therein,
2 Samuel 14:6
Now, thy maidservant, had two sons, and they two strove together in the field, with none to tear them apart, - so the one smote the other, and slew him.
Job 10:7
Though it is, within thine own knowledge, that I would not be lawless, and, none, out of thy hand, can deliver?
Psalm 10:9
He lieth in wait in a hiding-place, like a lion in his covert, He lieth in wait to catch the humbled, He catcheth the humbled, by drawing him into his net:
Psalm 17:12
His likeness, is as a lion, that longeth to rend, and as a young lion, lurking in secret places.
Psalm 22:13
They have opened wide against me their mouth, A lion rending and roaring.
Psalm 35:15
But, in mine overthrow, have they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together, - There gathered themselves together against me foolish men, and I knew it not, They have torn in pieces, and not been silent;
Proverbs 19:12
The growl as of a young lion, is the rage of a king, but, like dew upon the grass, is his good pleasure.
Hosea 13:7-8
Therefore am I become to them as a lion, - As a leopard by the way, do I watch.
2 Timothy 4:17
But, the Lord, stood by me, and empowered me, in order that, through me, the proclamation, might be fully made, and, all the nations, might hear; and I was delivered out of the mouth of a lion: -
1 Peter 5:8
Be sober! be watchful! Your slanderous adversary, as a roaring lion, is walking about - seeking to devour: