Psalms 57:4

Bishops' Bible (1568)

My soule is among Lions, and I lye among those that are set on fire: among the children of men whose teeth are speares and arrowes, and their tongue a sharpe sword.

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  • Ps 58:6 : 6 Breake their teeth O Lorde in their mouthes: smite a sunder the chawe bones of Lions O God.
  • Ps 55:21 : 21 The wordes of his mouth were softer then butter, yet warre was in his heart: his wordes were smother then oyle, and yet be they very swordes.
  • Ps 35:17 : 17 Lorde howe long wylt thou looke vpon this: O deliuer my soule from their raginges, and my dearling from Lions whelpes.
  • Ps 64:3 : 3 Who haue whet their tongue lyke a sword: who haue drawne their arrow, euen a bitter worde.
  • Prov 12:18 : 18 A slaunderous person pricketh lyke a sworde: but a wise mans tongue is wholsome.
  • Prov 30:14 : 14 There is a generation whose teeth are as swordes, and their chawes as knyues, to deuour the poore from of the earth, & the needy from among men.
  • Ps 52:2 : 2 Thy tongue imagineth wickednes: and deceaueth like a sharpe raser.
  • Ps 59:7 : 7 Behold they speake with their mouth, swordes are in their lippes: for say they who doth heare vs?
  • Judg 9:20 : 20 But if you haue not dealt truely, then let a fire come out of Abimelech, & consume the men of Sichem, & the house of Mello: and let there come out a fire fro among the men of Sichem, & out of the house of Mello, & consume Abimelech.
  • Ps 10:9 : 9 He lieth in wayte lurking as a Lion in his denne: he lyeth in wayte lurkyng, that he may violently carry away the afflicted, he doth carry away violentlye the afflicted, in halyng hym into his net.
  • Ps 17:12-13 : 12 Aryse O God, preuent his commyng, make hym to bowe: delyuer thou my soule from the vngodly which is thy sworde. 13 Deliuer thou me O God from men which be thy hande: from men, from the worlde, whose portion is in this lyfe, whose bellyes thou fyllest with thy priuie treasure.
  • Ps 22:13-16 : 13 They gape vpon me with their mouthes: as it were a rampyng and a roryng lion. 14 I am as it were into water resolued, and all my bones are out of ioynt: my heart also is like waxe melted in the middest of my bowels. 15 My strength is dried vp like a potsheard, & my tongue cleaueth to my gummes: and thou hast brought me into the dust of death. 16 For dogges are come about me, the assemble of the wicked lay siege agaynst me: they haue pearced my handes and my feete, I may tell all my bones.
  • Dan 6:22-24 : 22 My God hath sent his angel, which hath shut the lions mouthes, so that they might not hurt me, for myne vngiltinesse is founde out before him: and as for thee O king, I neuer offended thee. 23 Then was the king exceeding glad for him, & commaunded to take Daniel out of the denne: So Daniel was brought out of ye denne, & no maner of hurt was founde vpon him, for he put his trust in his God. 24 And as for those men which had accused Daniel, the king commaunded to bring them, & to cast them into the lions denne, them, their children, & their wyues: so the lions had the maisterie of them, and brake all their bones asunder or euer they came at the grounde of the denne.
  • John 4:10-11 : 10 Iesus aunswered, and sayde vnto her: yf thou knewest the gyft of God, & who it is that sayeth to thee geue me drynke, thou wouldest haue asked of hym, and he woulde haue geuen thee water of lyfe. 11 The woman sayth vnto hym: Syr, thou hast nothyng to drawe with, and the well is deepe: from whence then hast thou that water of lyfe?
  • Jas 3:6 : 6 And the tongue is fyre, euen a worlde of wickednesse. So is the tongue set among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fyre the course of nature, & it is set on fyre of hell.
  • Rev 19:15 : 15 And out of his mouth went a sharpe sworde, that with it he shoulde smyte the heathen: and he shall rule the with a rodde of yron. And he trode the winefat of fiercenesse and wrath of almightie God.
  • Prov 25:18 : 18 Whoso beareth false witnesse against his neighbour, he is a very club, a sworde, and a sharpe arrowe.
  • Prov 28:15 : 15 As a roaring Lion and an hungrye Beare, so is an vngodly prince ouer the poore people.

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  • Ps 22:12-16
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    12Many oxen are come about me: fat bulles of Bashan close me in on euery syde.

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    15My strength is dried vp like a potsheard, & my tongue cleaueth to my gummes: and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.

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    17Lorde howe long wylt thou looke vpon this: O deliuer my soule from their raginges, and my dearling from Lions whelpes.

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    12Aryse O God, preuent his commyng, make hym to bowe: delyuer thou my soule from the vngodly which is thy sworde.

    13Deliuer thou me O God from men which be thy hande: from men, from the worlde, whose portion is in this lyfe, whose bellyes thou fyllest with thy priuie treasure.

  • Ps 57:3
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    3He wyll sende from heauen, and saue me from the reproofe of him that woulde deuour me vp, Selah: the Lorde wyll sende foorth his mercie and trueth.

  • Ps 57:5-6
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    5Exalt thy selfe O God aboue the heauen: thy glory is aboue all the earth.

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    10He layeth wayte for me lyke a beare, and as a lion in a hole.

    11He hath marred my wayes, and broken me in peeces, he hath layde me waste altogether.

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    6Breake their teeth O Lorde in their mouthes: smite a sunder the chawe bones of Lions O God.

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    13His archers compasse me rounde about, he woundeth my raines, and doth not spare, my bowels hath he powred vpon the grounde.

  • Job 4:10-11
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    10The roring of the lion, and the voyce of the lion, and the teeth of the lions whelpes are pulled out.

    11The lion perisheth for lake of pray, & the lions whelpes are scattered abrode.

  • Ps 59:3
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    3For lo, they lye in wayte for my soule: men of power are gathered together against me who haue committed no wickednes nor fault O God.

  • Isa 49:2
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    2He hath made my mouth lyke a sharpe sworde, vnder the shadowe of his hande hath he defended me, and hid me in his quiuer as a good arrowe,

  • Ps 35:3
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    3Bryng foorth the speare, and stop the way against them that persecute me: say vnto my soule, I am thy saluation.

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    10For myne enemies speake against me: and they that lay awayte for my soule take their counsayle together.

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    14O God, the proude are rysen against me: a companie of outragious naughtipackes haue sought after my soule, and haue not set thee before their eyes.

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    20Delyuer my soule from the sworde: and my dearlyng from the dogges pawes.

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    7Arise vp O God, saue thou me O my Lorde: for thou hast smitten all myne enemies vpon the cheeke bone, thou hast broken the teeth of the vngodly.

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    4My heart trembleth within me: and the feare of death is fallen vpon me.

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    12They swarmed about me lyke bees, and they be extinguished as the fire made of thornes: for I trusted in the name of God that I should destroy them.

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    2Myne enemies are dayly in hande to swalowe me vp: for they be many that fight against me, O thou most highest.

  • Ps 57:1
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    1To the chiefe musition (to be song lyke vnto the song beginning) destroy not, a golden psalme of Dauid, when he fled from Saul into the caue. Be mercifull vnto me O Lorde, be mercifull vnto me: for my soule trusteth in thee, and vnder the shadowe of thy wynges wyll I trust, vntyll this tiranny be ouerpast.

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    9His wrath hath torne me he hateth me, & gnasheth vpon me with his teeth: myne enemie loketh fiercely vpon me with his eyes.

  • Ps 140:3-5
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    3They haue sharpened their tongue lyke a serpent: Adders poyson is vnder their lippes. Selah.

    4Kepe me O God from the handes of the vngodly: preserue me from the outragious man, who haue deuised to thrust my feete from me.

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    13I thought I woulde haue lyued vntyll the morowe, but he brused my bones lyke a lion: and in one day thou wylt make an ende of me.

  • Ps 143:3-4
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    3For the enemie hath persecuted my soule, he hath smitten my lyfe downe to the grounde: he hath layde me in darknesse as men that haue ben long dead.

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    6For a nation is come vp vpon my lande, mightie and without number: his teeth are as the teeth of a lion, and he hath the iawes of a great lion.

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    9And they that seeke my soule to oppresse it: shall go vnder the earth.

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