Verse 3

Otherwise, they will tear me apart like a lion, ripping me to pieces with no one to rescue.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Sam 24:11 : 11 'This day you have seen with your own eyes how the LORD delivered you into my hands in the cave. Some urged me to kill you, but I spared you and said, "I will not lay my hand on my lord because he is the LORD’s anointed."'
  • 2 Sam 16:7-8 : 7 As he cursed, Shimei shouted, "Get out! Get out, you man of bloodshed, you worthless man! 8 The Lord has repaid you for all the bloodshed in the house of Saul, in whose place you have reigned. The Lord has given the kingdom into the hand of your son Absalom. You are now caught in your own evil, for you are a man of bloodshed."
  • Ps 59:3 : 3 Deliver me from evildoers, and save me from those who thirst for blood.
  • Ps 66:18 : 18 If I had cherished iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not have listened.
  • Job 11:14 : 14 if iniquity is in your hand, put it far away, and do not let wrongdoing dwell in your tent,
  • Job 16:17-19 : 17 Yet my hands are free of violence, and my prayer is pure. 18 O earth, do not cover my blood; may my cry never find a resting place. 19 Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my testimony is on high.
  • 1 Sam 26:18-19 : 18 And he added, "Why is my lord pursuing his servant? What have I done, and what wrong is in my hand? 19 Now, may my lord the king please hear the words of his servant. If the LORD has incited you against me, may He accept an offering. But if men have done it, may they be cursed before the LORD, because they have driven me out today to prevent me from having a share in the LORD's inheritance, saying, 'Go, serve other gods.'
  • Josh 22:22 : 22 The Mighty One, God, the LORD—the Mighty One, God, the LORD! He knows, and let Israel also know! If it was in rebellion or treachery against the LORD, do not spare us today.
  • 1 Sam 20:8 : 8 Therefore, deal kindly with your servant, for you have brought your servant into a covenant of the LORD with you. But if I am guilty, kill me yourself; why bring me to your father?
  • 1 Sam 22:8 : 8 'You have all conspired against me! No one reveals to me when my son makes a covenant with the son of Jesse. None of you feels sorry for me or tells me that my son has stirred up my servant to lie in wait for me, as he does today.'
  • 1 Sam 22:13 : 13 Saul said to him, 'Why have you conspired against me, you and the son of Jesse, giving him bread and a sword and inquiring of God for him, so that he has risen against me to lie in wait, as he does today?'
  • 1 Sam 24:9 : 9 David got up afterward, went out of the cave, and called after Saul, 'My lord the king!' When Saul looked behind him, David bowed down with his face to the ground and paid homage.