Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

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

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.

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.

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.

References

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Context Readings

Prayer For Justice

1 'The Erring One,' by David, that he sung to Jehovah concerning the words of Cush a Benjamite. O Jehovah, my God, in Thee I have trusted, Save me from all my pursuers, and deliver me. 2 Lest he tear as a lion my soul, Rending, and there is no deliverer. 3 O Jehovah, my God, if I have done this, If there is iniquity in my hands,

Cross References

Psalm 50:22

Understand this, I pray you, Ye who are forgetting God, Lest I tear, and there is no deliverer.

Isaiah 38:13

I have set Him till morning as a lion, So doth He break all my bones, From day unto night Thou dost end me.

Deuteronomy 33:20

And of Gad he said: -- Blessed of the Enlarger is Gad, As a lioness he doth tabernacle, And hath torn the arm -- also the crown!

Judges 18:28

and there is no deliverer, for it is far off from Zidon, and they have no word with any man, and it is in the valley which is by Beth-Rehob; and they build the city, and dwell in it,

2 Samuel 14:6

and thy maid-servant hath two sons; and they strive both of them in a field, and there is no deliverer between them, and the one smiteth the other, and putteth him to death;

Job 10:7

For Thou knowest that I am not wicked, And there is no deliverer from Thy hand.

Psalm 10:9

He lieth in wait in a secret place, as a lion in a covert. He lieth in wait to catch the poor, He catcheth the poor, drawing him into his net.

Psalm 17:12

His likeness as a lion desirous to tear, As a young lion dwelling in secret places.

Psalm 22:13

They have opened against me their mouth, A lion tearing and roaring.

Psalm 35:15

And -- in my halting they have rejoiced, And have been gathered together, Gathered against me were the smiters, And I have not known, They have rent, and they have not ceased;

Proverbs 19:12

The wrath of a king is a growl as of a young lion, And as dew on the herb his good-will.

Hosea 13:7-8

And I am to them as a lion, As a leopard by the way I look out.

2 Timothy 4:17

and the Lord stood by me, and did strengthen me, that through me the preaching might be fully assured, and all the nations might hear, and I was freed out of the mouth of a lion,

1 Peter 5:8

Be sober, vigilant, because your opponent the devil, as a roaring lion, doth walk about, seeking whom he may swallow up,

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