Psalms 17:12

KJV1611 – Modern English

Like a lion that is eager for its prey, and as a young lion lurking in secret places.

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  • 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 lies in wait secretly, as a lion in his den; he lies in wait to catch the poor; he catches the poor when he draws him into his net.
  • Ps 22:13 : 13 They gaped at me with their mouths, like a ravening and roaring lion.
  • 2 Tim 4:17 : 17 But the Lord stood with me and strengthened me, so that the message might be fully preached through me, and that all the Gentiles might hear. Also I was delivered from the mouth of the lion.
  • 1 Pet 5:8 : 8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walks about, seeking whom he may devour:

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Lam 3:10-11
    2 verses
    83%

    10He was to me like a bear lying in wait, and like a lion in hiding.

    11He has turned aside my ways and torn me to pieces; He has made me desolate.

  • Ps 10:8-10
    3 verses
    83%

    8He sits in the lurking places of the villages; in the secret places he murders the innocent; his eyes are secretly set against the poor.

    9He lies in wait secretly, as a lion in his den; he lies in wait to catch the poor; he catches the poor when he draws him into his net.

    10He crouches and humbles himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones.

  • Ps 22:12-13
    2 verses
    81%

    12Many bulls have surrounded me; strong bulls of Bashan have encircled me.

    13They gaped at me with their mouths, like a ravening and roaring lion.

  • Nah 2:11-12
    2 verses
    81%

    11Where is the dwelling of the lions, and the feeding place of the young lions, where the lion, even the old lion, walked, and the lion's cub, and none made them afraid?

    12The lion tore in pieces enough for his cubs, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his caves with prey, and his dens with plunder.

  • Hos 13:7-8
    2 verses
    80%

    7Therefore I will be to them as a lion: as a leopard by the way I will observe them:

    8I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her cubs, and will tear the covering of their heart, and there will I devour them like a lion: the wild beast shall tear them.

  • Isa 5:29
    79%

    29Their roaring shall be like a lion, they shall roar like young lions: yes, they shall roar, and seize the prey, and shall carry it away safely, and none shall deliver it.

  • Ps 17:11
    79%

    11They have now surrounded us in our steps; they have set their eyes, bending 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 perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the stout lion are scattered abroad.

  • Job 38:39-40
    2 verses
    78%

    39Will you hunt the prey for the lion, or satisfy the appetite of the young lions,

    40When they crouch in their dens, and lie in wait in the thickets?

  • Num 23:24
    77%

    24Behold, the people shall rise up as a great lion and lift himself up like a young lion; he shall not lie down until he eats of the prey and drinks 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 learned to catch prey, and devoured men.

    7And he knew their desolate palaces, and he laid waste their cities; the land was desolate, with all its fullness, by the noise of his roaring.

  • Jer 25:38
    77%

    38He has forsaken His shelter, like a lion; for their land is desolate because of the fierceness of the oppressor, and because of His fierce anger.

  • Ps 17:13
    77%

    13Arise, O LORD, confront him, cast him down; deliver my soul from the wicked, which is your sword:

  • Ezek 19:2-3
    2 verses
    76%

    2And say, What is your mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her cubs among young lions.

    3And she brought up one of her cubs; it became a young lion, and it learned to catch prey; it devoured men.

  • Prov 28:15
    75%

    15As a roaring lion and a raging bear, so is a wicked ruler over poor people.

  • Amos 3:4
    75%

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

  • Jer 2:15
    75%

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

  • Gen 49:9
    75%

    9Judah is a lion's whelp: from the prey, my son, you have gone up: he stooped down, he crouched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up?

  • Prov 1:12
    74%

    12Let us swallow them alive like the grave, and whole, like those who go down into the pit;

  • 1 Pet 5:8
    74%

    8Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walks about, seeking whom he may devour:

  • Job 28:8
    74%

    8The lion's cubs have not trodden it, nor has the fierce lion passed by it.

  • Ps 58:6
    74%

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

  • Prov 30:30
    74%

    30A lion, which is mighty among beasts, and does not turn away from anything;

  • Ps 57:4
    74%

    4My soul is among lions, and I lie among those who 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 has come up against my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he has the cheek teeth of a great lion.

  • Ps 35:17
    74%

    17Lord, how long will you look on? Rescue my soul from their destructions, my darling from the lions.

  • Prov 1:18
    74%

    18And they lie in wait for their own blood; they lurk secretly for their own lives.

  • Lam 4:19
    73%

    19Our persecutors were swifter than the eagles of the sky; they pursued us on the mountains, they lay in wait for us in the wilderness.

  • Ps 56:6
    73%

    6They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, waiting for my life.

  • Job 10:16
    73%

    16For it increases. You hunt me as a fierce lion; and again You show Yourself marvelous upon me.

  • Jer 4:7
    73%

    7The lion has come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the nations is on his way; he has gone forth from his place to make your land desolate; and your cities shall be laid waste, without an inhabitant.

  • Ps 34:10
    73%

    10The young lions lack and suffer hunger: but those who seek the LORD shall not lack any good thing.

  • Ps 17:9
    73%

    9From the wicked who oppress me, from my deadly enemies who surround me.

  • Isa 31:4
    73%

    4For thus has the LORD spoken to me, Like a lion and the young lion roaring over his prey, when a multitude of shepherds is called against him, he will not be afraid of their voice, nor humble himself for the noise of them: so shall the LORD of hosts come down to fight for Mount Zion, and for its hill.

  • Prov 28:1
    73%

    1The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion.

  • Jer 51:38
    72%

    38They shall roar together like lions; they shall growl like lions' cubs.

  • Ps 37:32
    72%

    32The wicked watch the righteous, and seek to slay him.

  • Jer 5:6
    72%

    6Therefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: everyone that goes out from there shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, and their backslidings have increased.