Psalm 17:12 Parallel Translations

Each one of them is like a lion eager to tear its prey apart and like a young lion crouching in hiding places.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.

ASV:

He is like a lion that is greedy of his prey, And as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.

BBE:

Like a lion desiring its food, and like a young lion waiting in secret places.

DBY:

He is like a lion that is greedy of its prey, and as a young lion lurking in secret places.

ERV:

He is like a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.

JPS:

He is like a lion that is eager to tear in pieces, and like a young lion lurking in secret places.

WBS:

Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.

WEB:

He is like a lion that is greedy of his prey, as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.

YLT:

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

Psalm 17:12 Cross References

XREF:

Psalm 7:2 Or he will tear my soul like a lion, Dragging me away, while there is none to deliver.

Psalm 10:9 He lurks in a hiding place as a lion in his lair; He lurks to catch the afflicted; He catches the afflicted when he draws him into his net. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

MHC:

17:8-15 Being compassed with enemies, David prays to God to keep him in safety. This prayer is a prediction that Christ would be preserved, through all the hardships and difficulties of his humiliation, to the glories and joys of his exalted state, and is a pattern to Christians to commit the keeping of their souls to God, trusting him to preserve them to his heavenly kingdom. Those are our worst enemies, that are enemies to our souls. They are God's sword, which cannot move without him, and which he will sheathe when he has done his work with it. They are his hand, by which he chastises his people. There is no fleeing from God's hand, but by fleeing to it. It is very comfortable, when we are in fear of the power of man, to see it dependent upon, and in subjection to the power of God. Most men look on the things of this world as the best things; and they look no further, nor show any care to provide for another life. The things of this world are called treasures, they are so accounted; but to the soul, and when compared with eternal blessings, they are trash. The most afflicted Christian need not envy the most prosperous men of the world, who have their portion in this life. Clothed with Christ's righteousness, having through his grace a good heart and a good life, may we by faith behold God's face, and set him always before us. When we awake every morning, may we be satisfied with his likeness set before us in his word, and with his likeness stamped upon us by his renewing grace. Happiness in the other world is prepared only for those that are justified and sanctified: they shall be put in possession of it when the soul awakes, at death, out of its slumber in the body, and when the body awakes, at the resurrection, out of its slumber in the grave. There is no satisfaction for a soul but in God, and in his good will towards us, and his good work in us; yet that satisfaction will not be perfect till we come to heaven.

CONC:

Ambush Cover Crouching Desiring Desirous Dwelling Eager Greedy Hiding Hungry Likeness Lion Lurking Pieces Places Prey Secret Tear Waiting

Ambush Cover Crouching Desiring Desirous Dwelling Eager Food Great Greedy Hiding Hungry Lion Pieces Places Prey Secret Tear Waiting Young

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