Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
lest he devour my soul like a lion, and tear it in pieces, while there is none to help.
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.
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.
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 7:2
Verse Info
Context Readings
Prayer For Justice
1 {Shiggaion of David, which he sang for the words of Cush the son of Benjamin} O LORD my God, in thee have I put my trust; save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me, 2 lest he devour my soul like a lion, and tear it in pieces, while there is none to help. 3 O LORD my God, if I have done any such thing, or if there be any wickedness in my hands,
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Psalm 50:22
O consider this, ye that forget God, lest I pluck you away, and there be none to deliver you.
Isaiah 38:13
I thought I would have lived unto the morrow, but he bruised my bones like a lion, and made an end of me in one day.
Deuteronomy 33:20
And unto Gad he said, "Blessed is the room-maker Gad. He dwelleth as a lion that catcheth the arm with the of the head.
Judges 18:28
And there was no man to help, because it was far from Sidon, and they had no meddling with any other nation. And the city stood in the valley that lieth by Bethrehob. And they built the city and dwelt therein.
2 Samuel 14:6
And thy handmaid had two sons which fought together in the fields where was no man to go between them, and the one slew the other.
Job 10:7
Whereas, notwithstanding, thou knowest that I am no wicked person, and that there is no man able to deliver me out of thine hand.
Psalm 10:9
For he lieth waiting secretly; even as a lion lurketh he in his den, that he may ravish the poor. He doth ravish the poor when he getteth him into his net.
Psalm 17:12
like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a lion's whelp, lurking in secret places.
Psalm 22:13
They gape upon me with their mouths, as it were a rampaging and a roaring lion.
Psalm 35:15
But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: Yea, the very lame came together against me unawares, making mouths at me, and ceased not.
Proverbs 19:12
The king's disfavor is like the roaring of a Lion, but his friendship is like the dew upon the grass.
Hosea 13:7-8
Therefore will I be unto them as a lion, and as a leopard in the way to the Assyrians.
2 Timothy 4:17
notwithstanding the Lord assisted me, and strengthed me, that by me the preaching should be fulfilled to the utmost and that all the gentiles should hear. And I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.
1 Peter 5:8
Be sober, and watch. For your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: