Mazmur 7:2

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

(7-3) supaya jangan mereka seperti singa menerkam aku dan menyeret aku, dengan tidak ada yang melepaskan.

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Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
(7-3) supaya jangan mereka seperti singa menerkam aku dan menyeret aku, dengan tidak ada yang melepaskan.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Ya Tuhan, Allahku, kepadamu aku berlindung; lepaskanlah kiranya aku dari pada segala orang yang mengusir akan daku, dan luputkanlah aku dari padanya.

Contextual Overview

¹ O God my Lord, in thee I haue put my trust: saue me from all them that do persecute me, and deliuer thou me. ² Lest he like a Lion seasoneth on my soule: teareth it in peeces, hauyng no rescue. ³ O God my Lord, if I haue done any such thing: or if there be any wickednesse in my handes. ⁴ If I haue done euyll vnto hym that had peace with me: and [if] I haue [not] deliuered hym that is without a cause myne aduersarie? ⁵ [Then] let myne enemie persecute my soule and take me: yea, let hym put me to death, and lay myne honour in the dust. Selah. ⁶ Arise O God in thy wrath, and stand thou vp agaynst the rage of myne enemies: stirre thou for me [according] to the iudgement [whiche] thou hast geuen. ⁷ And so shall the congregation of the people come about thee: for their sakes therfore place thy selfe on high. ⁸ God wyll iudge the people: geue thou sentence with me O God according to my righteousnesse, and according to my perfection [that is] within me. ⁹ My desire is, that ye wickednesse of the vngodly may come to an ende: and that thou wouldest assist the iust, who art the tryer of heartes and of reynes, O most righteous Lorde.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Lest: Psalms 35:15, Isaiah 38:13

like: Psalms 10:9, Psalms 17:12, Psalms 22:13, Deuteronomy 33:20, Proverbs 19:12, 2 Timothy 4:17, 1 Peter 5:8

rending: Psalms 50:22, Hosea 13:7, Hosea 13:8

while: Judges 18:28, 2 Samuel 14:6, *marg. Job 10:7, not to deliver, Heb. not a deliverer

Reciprocal: Job 4:11 - old lion Job 5:4 - neither Psalms 13:2 - enemy Psalms 59:1 - Deliver Psalms 71:11 - for there Psalms 94:5 - break Psalms 143:3 - the enemy Lamentations 5:8 - there Daniel 8:4 - neither Hosea 5:14 - as a lion Acts 23:10 - fearing

Cross-References

Genesis 7:1
And the Lord said vnto Noah: come thou and al thy house into ye arke: for thee haue I seen ryghteous before me in this generation.

Genesis 7:8
Of cleane beastes, and of vncleane beastes, and of foules, and of euery such as creepeth vpon the earth,

Genesis 7:11
In the sixe hundreth yere of Noahs lyfe, in the seconde moneth, the seuenteene day of ye moneth, in the same day were all the fountaynes of the great deepe broken vp, and the wyndowes of heauen were opened.

Genesis 7:15
And they came vnto Noah into the arke, two and two, of all fleshe wherein is the breath of lyfe.

Genesis 7:19
And the waters preuayled exceedingly vpon the earth, and al the high hilles that are vnder the whole heauen, were couered.

Genesis 7:21
And all fleshe perished, that moued vpon the earth, in foule, in cattell, in beast, and in euery worme that creepeth vpon the earth, yea, and euery man also.

Genesis 8:20
And Noah builded an aulter vnto ye Lorde, and tooke of euery cleane beast, and of euery cleane foule, & offred burnt offering on the aulter

Leviticus 10:10
And that ye may put difference betweene holy and vnholy, betweene vncleane and cleane:

Ezekiel 44:23
They shall shewe my people the difference betweene the holy and vnholy, and cause them to discerne betwixt the cleane and vncleane.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Lest he tear my soul like a lion,.... That is, one of his persecutors, the chief of them; it may be Saul, whom the psalmist compares to a lion for his majesty and greatness, the lion being the king among beasts; and for his authority, power, and might, and for his wrath and cruelty, which he feared; and which, should it be exerted on him, would tear his soul, or himself, in pieces; would rend his soul from his body, and dispatch his life; see Proverbs 19:12. So the Apostle Paul calls the Roman governor, before whom he was, and from whose hands he was delivered, a lion, for his power and fierceness, 2 Timothy 4:17. And so our adversary the devil, the chief of all persecutors, and who instigates others against the saints, is by Peter said to go about like a roaring lion, 1 Peter 5:8;

rending [it] in pieces, as the lion does his prey when hungry. So Homer s compares Polyphemus to a mountain lion, which devours and leaves nothing, neither the intestines, nor flesh, nor bones; and represents t it first taking hold of the creature with its strong teeth, and breaking its neck, and drawing out its blood and all its inwards; see

Isaiah 38:13;

while [there is] none to deliver; no saviour, no deliverer: for if God does not save and deliver his people out of the hands of their persecutors, none can; especially out of the hands of such an one as is here described tearing and rending in pieces. As there is no God besides the Lord, there is no saviour besides him: there is no temporal nor spiritual saviour but he: salvation is not to be expected from any other; and were it not for him, saints must fall a prey to their enemies.

s Odyss. 9. v. 292, 293. t Iliad. 11. v. 175, 176. & Iliad. 17. v. 63.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Lest he - Lest “Cush” should do this. See the title, and the introduction to the psalm, Section 2.

Tear my soul like a lion - Tear or rend my “life” - that is, “me” - like a lion. The word rendered “soul” here - נפשׁ nephesh - refers, as it properly does elsewhere, to the “life,” and not to the soul, as we use the term, denoting the thinking, immortal part. The simple idea is, that David was apprehensive of his “life,” and, in order to indicate his great peril, he uses language derived from the fierceness of the lion. Such imagery would be well understood in a country where lions abounded, and nothing could more strikingly denote the danger in which David was, or the fierceness of the wrath of the enemy that he dreaded.

Rending it in pieces - Rending me in pieces. Or rather, perhaps, breaking or crushing the bones, for the word used - פרק pâraq (from our English word “break”) - means “to break, to crush,” and would apply to the act of the lion crushing or breaking the bones of his victim as he devoured it.

While there is none to deliver - Denoting the complete destruction which he feared would come upon him. The figure is that of a solitary man seized by a powerful lion, with no one at hand to rescue him. So David felt that if God did not interfere, he would fall into the hands of this fierce and wrathful enemy.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 7:2. Lest he tear my soul like a lion — These words seem to answer well to Saul. As the lion is king in the forest; so was Saul king over the land. As the lion, in his fierceness, seizes at once, and tears his prey in pieces; so David expected to be seized and suddenly destroyed by Saul. He had already, in his rage, thrown his javelin at him, intending to have pierced him to the wall with it. As from the power of the lion no beast in the forest could deliver any thing; so David knew that Saul's power was irresistible, and that none of his friends or well-wishers could save or deliver him out of such hands. "Lest he tear my soul (my life) like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver." All this answers to Saul, and to none else.