Psalms 17:12

Geneva Bible (1560)

Like as a lyon that is greedy of pray, and as it were a lyons whelp lurking in secret places.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 7:2 : 2 Least he deuoure my soule like a lion, and teare it in pieces, while there is none to helpe.
  • Ps 10:9 : 9 He lyeth in waite secretly, euen as a lyon in his denne: he lyeth in waite to spoyle the poore: he doeth spoyle the poore, when he draweth him into his net.
  • Ps 22:13 : 13 They gape vpon me with their mouthes, as a ramping and roaring lyon.
  • 2 Tim 4:17 : 17 Notwithstanding the Lord assisted me, and strengthened me, that by me the preaching might be fully beleeued, and that al the Gentiles should heare: and I was deliuered out of the mouth of the lion.
  • 1 Pet 5:8 : 8 Be sober, and watch: for your aduersarie the deuil as a roaring lyon walketh about, seeking whom he may deuoure:

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Lam 3:10-11
    2 verses
    83%

    10He was vnto me as a beare lying in waite, and as a Lion in secret places.

    11He hath stopped my wayes, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.

  • Ps 10:8-10
    3 verses
    83%

    8He lieth in waite in the villages: in the secret places doeth hee murther the innocent: his eyes are bent against the poore.

    9He lyeth in waite secretly, euen as a lyon in his denne: he lyeth in waite to spoyle the poore: he doeth spoyle the poore, when he draweth him into his net.

    10He croucheth and boweth: therefore heaps of the poore doe fall by his might.

  • Ps 22:12-13
    2 verses
    81%

    12Many yong bulles haue compassed me: mightie bulles of Bashan haue closed me about.

    13They gape vpon me with their mouthes, as a ramping and roaring lyon.

  • Nah 2:11-12
    2 verses
    81%

    11Where is the dwelling of the lyons, and the pasture of the lyons whelpes? where the lyon, and the lionesse walked, and the lyons whelpe, & none made them afrayde.

    12The lyon did teare in pieces ynough for his whelpes, and woryed for his lyonesse, and filled his holes with praye, and his dennes with, spoyle.

  • Hos 13:7-8
    2 verses
    80%

    7And I wil be vnto them as a very lyon, and as a leopard in the way of Asshur.

    8I will meete them, as a beare that is robbed of her whelpes, and I will breake the kall of their heart, and there will I deuoure them like a lion: the wilde beast shall teare them.

  • Isa 5:29
    79%

    29His roaring shalbe like a lyon, and he shall roare like lyons whelpes: they shall roare, and lay holde of the praye: they shall take it away, and none shall deliuer it.

  • Ps 17:11
    79%

    11They haue compassed vs now in our steps: they haue set their eyes to bring downe to the ground:

  • Ps 104:21
    78%

    21The lions roare after their praye, and seeke their meate at God.

  • Job 4:10-11
    2 verses
    78%

    10The roaring of the Lion, and the voyce of the Lionesse, & the teeth of the Lions whelpes are broken.

    11The Lyon perisheth for lacke of pray, and the Lyons whelpes are scattered abroade.

  • Job 38:39-40
    2 verses
    78%

    39(39:1) Wilt thou hunt the pray for the lyon? or fill the appetite of the lyons whelpes,

    40(39:2) When they couch in their places, and remaine in the couert to lye in waite?

  • Num 23:24
    77%

    24Behold, the people shal rise vp as a lyon, & lift vp himselfe as a yong lyon: hee shall not lye downe, till he eate of the pray, and till he drinke the blood of the slayne.

  • Ps 7:2
    77%

    2Least he deuoure my soule like a lion, and teare it in pieces, while there is none to helpe.

  • Ezek 19:6-7
    2 verses
    77%

    6Which went among the lyons, and became a lyon, and learned to catch the praye, and he deuoured men.

    7And he knew their widowes, & he destroyed their cities, and the land was wasted, and all that was therein by the noyse of his roaring.

  • Jer 25:38
    77%

    38He hath forsaken his couert, as the lyon: for their land is waste, because of the wrath of the oppressor, & because of ye wrath of his indignatio.

  • Ps 17:13
    77%

    13Vp Lord, disappoint him: cast him downe: deliuer my soule from the wicked with thy sworde,

  • Ezek 19:2-3
    2 verses
    76%

    2And say, Wherefore lay thy mother as a lyonesse among the lyons? she nourished her yong ones among the lyons whelps,

    3And she brought vp one of her whelps, and it became a lyon, and it learned to catch the praye, and it deuoured men.

  • Prov 28:15
    75%

    15As a roaring lyon, and an hungry beare, so is a wicked ruler ouer the poore people.

  • Amos 3:4
    75%

    4Will a lion roare in ye forest, when he hath no pray? or wil a lions whelpe cry out of his den, if he haue taken nothing?

  • Jer 2:15
    75%

    15The lions roared vpon him & yelled, and they haue made his land waste: his cities are burnt without an inhabitant.

  • Gen 49:9
    75%

    9Iudah, as a Lions whelpe shalt thou come vp from the spoyle, my sonne. He shall lye downe and couche as a Lion, and as a Lionesse: Who shall stirre him vp?

  • Prov 1:12
    74%

    12We wil swallow them vp aliue like a graue euen whole, as those that goe downe into the pit:

  • 1 Pet 5:8
    74%

    8Be sober, and watch: for your aduersarie the deuil as a roaring lyon walketh about, seeking whom he may deuoure:

  • Job 28:8
    74%

    8The lyons whelpes haue not walked it, nor the lyon passed thereby.

  • Ps 58:6
    74%

    6Breake their teeth, O God, in their mouthes: breake the iawes of the yong lions, O Lorde.

  • Prov 30:30
    74%

    30A lyon which is strong among beastes, and turneth not at the sight of any:

  • Ps 57:4
    74%

    4My soule is among lions: I lie among the children of men, that are set on fire: whose teeth are speares and arrowes, & their tongue a sharpe sworde.

  • Joel 1:6
    74%

    6Yea, a nation commeth vpon my lande, mightie, & without nomber, whose teeth are like the teeth of a lyon, and he hath the iawes of a great lyon.

  • Ps 35:17
    74%

    17Lord, how long wilt thou beholde this? deliuer my soule from their tumult, euen my desolate soule from the lions.

  • Prov 1:18
    74%

    18So they lay waite for blood and lie priuily for their liues.

  • Lam 4:19
    73%

    19Our persecuters are swifter then the egles of the heauen: they pursued vs vpon the mountaines, and layed waite for vs in the wildernes.

  • Ps 56:6
    73%

    6They gather together, and keepe them selues close: they marke my steps, because they waite for my soule.

  • Job 10:16
    73%

    16But let it increase: hunt thou me as a lyon: returne and shew thy selfe marueilous vpon me.

  • Jer 4:7
    73%

    7The lyon is come vp from his denne, and the destroyer of the Gentiles is departed, and gone forth of his place to lay thy land waste, and thy cities shalbe destroyed without an inhabitant.

  • Ps 34:10
    73%

    10The lyons doe lacke and suffer hunger, but they, which seeke the Lord, shall want nothing that is good.

  • Ps 17:9
    73%

    9From the wicked that oppresse mee, from mine enemies, which compasse me round about for my soule.

  • Isa 31:4
    73%

    4For thus hath the Lord spoken vnto me, As the lyon or lyons whelpe roareth vpon his praye, against whom if a multitude of shepheards be called, hee will not be afraide at their voyce, neither will humble him selfe at their noise: so shall the Lord of hostes come downe to fight for mount Zion, and for the hill thereof.

  • Prov 28:1
    73%

    1The wicked flee when none pursueth: but the righteous are bolde as a lyon.

  • Jer 51:38
    72%

    38They shal rore together like lions, and yell as the lyons whelpes.

  • Ps 37:32
    72%

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

  • Jer 5:6
    72%

    6Wherefore a lyon out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolfe of the wildernesse shall destroy them: a leopard shall watch ouer their cities: euery one that goeth out thence, shall be torne in pieces, because their trespasses are many, and their rebellions are increased.