lest they tear apart my soul like a lion, ripping it in pieces, while there is no one to deliver.
Parallel translations
- KJV Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.
- BSB or they will shred my soul like a lion and tear me to pieces with no one to rescue me.
- NKJV Lest they tear me like a lion, Rending me in pieces, while there is none to deliver.
- NASB Or he will tear my soul like a lion, Dragging me away, while there is no one to rescue me.
- NLT If you don’t, they will maul me like a lion, tearing me to pieces with no one to rescue me.
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- Ps 50:22“Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you into pieces, and there be no one to deliver.
- 2 Tim 4:17But the Lord stood by me, and strengthened me, that through me the message might be fully proclaimed, and that all the Gentiles might hear; and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.
- Isa 38:13I waited patiently until morning. He breaks all my bones like a lion. From day even to night you will make an end of me.
- 1 Pet 5:8Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.
- Ps 35:15But in my adversity, they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together. The attackers gathered themselves together against me, and I didn’t know it. They tore at me, and didn’t cease.
- Deut 33:20About Gad he said, “He who enlarges Gad is blessed. He dwells as a lioness, and tears the arm, yes, the crown of the head.
- Ps 10:9He lurks in secret as a lion in his ambush. He lies in wait to catch the helpless. He catches the helpless, when he draws him in his net.
- Prov 19:12The king’s wrath is like the roaring of a lion, but his favor is like dew on the grass.
- Ps 17:12He is like a lion that is greedy of his prey, as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.
- 2 Sam 14:6Your servant had two sons, and they both fought together in the field, and there was no one to part them, but the one struck the other, and killed him.
- Job 10:7Although you know that I am not wicked, there is no one who can deliver out of your hand.
- Judg 18:28There was no deliverer, because it was far from Sidon, and they had no dealings with anyone else; and it was in the valley that lies by Beth Rehob. They built the city, and lived in it.
- Hos 13:7–8Therefore I am like a lion to them. Like a leopard, I will lurk by the path.
- Ps 22:13They open their mouths wide against me, lions tearing prey and roaring.
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