Psalm 7:2 {3}
Good News Translation
or else like a lion they will carry me off where no one can save me, and there they will tear me to pieces.

New Revised Standard Version
or like a lion they will tear me apart; they will drag me away, with no one to rescue.

Contemporary English Version
Or else they will rip me apart like lions attacking a victim, and no one will save me.

New American Bible
Lest someone maul me like a lion, tear my soul apart with no one to deliver.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Lest at any time he seize upon my soul like a lion, while there is no one to redeem me, nor to save.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Lest at any time he seize upon my soul like a lion, while there is no one to redeem me, nor to save.

Lest

Psalm 35:15 But they rejoiced against me, and came together: scourges were gathered together upon me, and I knew not.

Isaiah 38:13 I hoped till morning, as a lion so hath he broken all my bones: from morning even to night thou wilt make an end of me.

like

Psalm 10:9 His eyes are upon the poor man: He lieth in wait in secret like a lion in his den. He lieth in ambush that he may catch the poor man: to catch the poor, whilst he draweth him to him.

Psalm 17:12 They have taken me, as a lion prepared for the prey; and as a young lion dwelling in secret places.

Psalm 22:13 They have opened their mouths against me, as a lion ravening and roaring.

Deuteronomy 33:20 And to Gad he said: Blessed be Gad in his breadth: he hath rested as a lion, and hath seized upon the arm and the top of the head.

Proverbs 19:12 As the roaring of a lion, so also is the anger of a king: and his cheerfulness as the dew upon the grass.

2 Timothy 4:17 But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, that by me the preaching may be accomplished and that all the Gentiles may hear. And I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.

1 Peter 5:8 Be sober and watch: because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, goeth about seeking whom he may devour.

rending

Psalm 50:22 Understand these things, you that forget God; lest he snatch you away, and there be none to deliver you.

Hosea 13:7,8 And I will be to them as a lioness, as a leopard in the way of the Assyrians. . . .

while

Judges 18:28 There being no man at all who brought them any succour, because they dwelt far from Sidon, and had no society or business with any man. And the city was in the land of Rohob: and they rebuilt it, and dwelt therein,

2 Samuel 14:6 And thy handmaid had two sons: and they quarrelled with each other in the field, and there was none to part them: and the one struck the other, and slew him.

Job 10:7 And shouldst know that I have done no wicked thing, whereas there is no man that can deliver out of thy hand?

not to deliver.

Context
I Take Refuge in You
1The psalm of David, which he sung to the Lord, for the words of Chusi, the son of Jemini. [2] O Lord, my God, in thee have I put my trust; save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me. 2Lest at any time he seize upon my soul like a lion, while there is no one to redeem me, nor to save.3O Lord, my God, if I have done this thing, if there be iniquity in my hands:…
Cross References
Psalm 17:12
They have taken me, as a lion prepared for the prey; and as a young lion dwelling in secret places.

Psalm 35:15
But they rejoiced against me, and came together: scourges were gathered together upon me, and I knew not.

Psalm 50:22
Understand these things, you that forget God; lest he snatch you away, and there be none to deliver you.

Psalm 57:4
And he hath delivered my soul from the midst of the young lions. I slept troubled. The sons of men, whose teeth are weapons and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

Psalm 71:11
Saying: God hath forsaken him: pursue and take him, for there is none to deliver him.

Isaiah 38:13
I hoped till morning, as a lion so hath he broken all my bones: from morning even to night thou wilt make an end of me.

Lamentations 5:8
Servants have ruled over us: there was none to redeem us out of their hand.

Hosea 5:14
For I will be like a lioness to Ephraim, and like a lion's whelp to the house of Juda: I, I will catch, and go: I will take away, and there is none that can rescue.

Psalm 7:1
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