Psalms 17:12
Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.
Psalms 17:12 in other translations
| BSB | like a lion greedy for prey, like a young lion lurking in ambush. |
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| WEB | He is like a lion that is greedy of his prey, 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. |
| YLT | His likeness as a lion desirous to tear, As a young lion dwelling in secret places. |
| DARBY | He is like a lion that is greedy of its prey, and as a young lion lurking in secret places. |
| BBE | Like a lion desiring its food, and like a young lion waiting in secret places. |
| Webster | Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places. |
What does Psalms 17:12 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 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…
Psalms 17:12 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Psalms 17:12
- Psalms 7:2
Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.
- Psalms 10:9
He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net.
- 1 Peter 5:8
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
- 2 Timothy 4:17
Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that by me the preaching might be fully known, and that all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.
- Psalms 22:13
They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.
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Context
- Psalms 17:11
They have now compassed us in our steps: they have set their eyes bowing down to the earth;
- Psalms 17:12
Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.
- Psalms 17:13
Arise, O Lord, disappoint him, cast him down: deliver my soul from the wicked, which is thy sword:
Psalms 17:12 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Parecen al león que desea hacer presa, y al leoncillo que está escondido. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Il est semblable au lion avide de déchirer, et comme le lionceau qui se tient dans les lieux cachés. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Er ist gleich einem Löwen, der nach Raub schmachtet, und wie ein junger Löwe, sitzend im Versteck. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Et posuit tenebras latibulum suum; in circuitu ejus tabernaculum ejus, tenebrosa aqua in nubibus aëris. |