Psalms 17:12

American Standard Version (1901)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 7:2 : 2 Lest they tear my soul like a lion, Rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.
  • Ps 10:9 : 9 He lurketh in secret as a lion in his covert; He lieth in wait to catch the poor: He doth catch the poor, when he draweth him in his net.
  • Ps 22:13 : 13 They gape upon me with their mouth, [As] a ravening and a roaring lion.
  • 2 Tim 4:17 : 17 But the Lord stood by me, and strengthened me; that through me the message might me fully proclaimed, and that all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.
  • 1 Pet 5:8 : 8 Be sober, be watchful: your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour,

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Lam 3:10-11
    2 verses
    83%

    10He is unto me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in secret places.

    11He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he hath made me desolate.

  • Ps 10:8-10
    3 verses
    83%

    8He sitteth in the lurking-places of the villages; In the secret places doth he murder the innocent; His eyes are privily set against the helpless.

    9He lurketh in secret as a lion in his covert; He lieth in wait to catch the poor: He doth catch the poor, when he draweth him in his net.

    10He croucheth, he boweth down, And the helpless fall by his strong ones.

  • Ps 22:12-13
    2 verses
    81%

    12Many bulls have compassed me; Strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.

    13They gape upon me with their mouth, [As] a ravening and a roaring lion.

  • Nah 2:11-12
    2 verses
    81%

    11Where is the den of the lions, and the feeding-place of the young lions, where the lion [and] the lioness walked, the lion's whelp, and none made them afraid?

    12The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his caves with prey, and his dens with ravin.

  • Hos 13:7-8
    2 verses
    80%

    7Therefore am I unto them as a lion; as a leopard will I watch by the way;

    8I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her whelps, and will rend the caul of their heart; and there will I devour them like a lioness; the wild beast shall tear them.

  • Isa 5:29
    79%

    29their roaring shall be like a lioness, they shall roar like young lions; yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and carry it away safe, and there shall be none to deliver.

  • Ps 17:11
    79%

    11They have now compassed us in our steps; They set their eyes to cast [us] down to the earth.

  • Ps 104:21
    78%

    21The young lions roar after their prey, And seek their food from God.

  • Job 4:10-11
    2 verses
    78%

    10The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, And the teeth of the young lions, are broken.

    11The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, And the whelps of the lioness are scattered abroad.

  • Job 38:39-40
    2 verses
    78%

    39Canst thou hunt the prey for the lioness, Or satisfy the appetite of the young lions,

    40When they couch in their dens, [And] abide in the covert to lie in wait?

  • Num 23:24
    77%

    24Behold, the people riseth up as a lioness, And as a lion doth he lift himself up: He shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, And drink the blood of the slain.

  • Ps 7:2
    77%

    2Lest they tear my soul like a lion, Rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.

  • Ezek 19:6-7
    2 verses
    77%

    6And he went up and down among the lions; he became a young lion, and he learned to catch the prey; he devoured men.

    7And he knew their palaces, and laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and the fulness thereof, because of the noise of his roaring.

  • Jer 25:38
    77%

    38He hath left his covert, as the lion; for their land is become an astonishment because of the fierceness of the oppressing [sword], and because of his fierce anger.

  • Ps 17:13
    77%

    13Arise, O Jehovah, Confront him, cast him down: Deliver my soul from the wicked by thy sword;

  • Ezek 19:2-3
    2 verses
    76%

    2and say, What was thy mother? A lioness: she couched among lions, in the midst of the young lions she nourished her whelps.

    3And she brought up one of her whelps: he became a young lion, and he learned to catch the prey; he devoured men.

  • Prov 28:15
    75%

    15[ As] a roaring lion, and a ranging bear, [So is] a wicked ruler over a poor people.

  • Amos 3:4
    75%

    4Will a lion roar in the forest, when he hath no prey? will a young lion cry out of his den, if he have taken nothing?

  • Jer 2:15
    75%

    15The young lions have roared upon him, and yelled; and they have made his land waste: his cities are burned up, without inhabitant.

  • Gen 49:9
    75%

    9Judah is a lion's whelp; From the prey, my son, thou art gone up: He stooped down, he couched as a lion, And as a lioness; who shall rouse him up?

  • Prov 1:12
    74%

    12Let us swallow them up alive as Sheol, And whole, as those that go down into the pit;

  • 1 Pet 5:8
    74%

    8Be sober, be watchful: your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour,

  • Job 28:8
    74%

    8The proud beasts have not trodden it, Nor hath the fierce lion passed thereby.

  • Ps 58:6
    74%

    6Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: Break out the great teeth of the young lions, O Jehovah.

  • Prov 30:30
    74%

    30The lion, which is mightiest among beasts, And turneth not away for any;

  • Ps 57:4
    74%

    4My soul is among lions; I lie among them that are set on fire, Even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, And their tongue a sharp sword.

  • Joel 1:6
    74%

    6For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number; his teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the jaw-teeth of a lioness.

  • Ps 35:17
    74%

    17Lord, how long wilt thou look on? Rescue my soul from their destructions, My darling from the lions.

  • Prov 1:18
    74%

    18And these lay wait for their own blood; They lurk privily for their own lives.

  • Lam 4:19
    73%

    19Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the heavens: They chased us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.

  • Ps 56:6
    73%

    6They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, They mark my steps, Even as they have waited for my soul.

  • Job 10:16
    73%

    16And if [my head] exalt itself, thou huntest me as a lion; And again thou showest thyself marvellous upon me.

  • Jer 4:7
    73%

    7A lion is gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations; he is on his way, he is gone forth from his place, to make thy land desolate, that thy cities be laid waste, without inhabitant.

  • Ps 34:10
    73%

    10The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger; But they that seek Jehovah shall not want any good thing.

  • Ps 17:9
    73%

    9From the wicked that oppress me, My deadly enemies, that compass me about.

  • Isa 31:4
    73%

    4For thus saith Jehovah unto me, As the lion and the young lion growling over his prey, if a multitude of shepherds be called forth against him, will not be dismayed at their voice, nor abase himself for the noise of them: so will Jehovah of hosts come down to fight upon mount Zion, and upon the hill thereof.

  • Prov 28:1
    73%

    1The wicked flee when no man pursueth; But the righteous are bold as a lion.

  • Jer 51:38
    72%

    38They shall roar together like young lions; they shall growl as lions' whelps.

  • Ps 37:32
    72%

    32The wicked watcheth the righteous, And seeketh to slay him.

  • Jer 5:6
    72%

    6Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, a wolf of the evenings shall destroy them, a leopard shall watch against their cities; every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces; because their transgressions are many, [and] their backslidings are increased.