Psalms 17:12

World English Bible (2000)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 7:2 : 2 lest they tear apart my soul like a lion, ripping it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.
  • Ps 10:9 : 9 He lurks in secret as a lion in his ambush. He lies in wait to catch the helpless. He catches the helpless, when he draws him in his net.
  • Ps 22:13 : 13 They open their mouths wide against me, lions tearing prey and roaring.
  • 2 Tim 4:17 : 17 But the Lord stood by me, and strengthened me, that through me the message might be 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 and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Lam 3:10-11
    2 verses
    83%

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

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

  • Ps 10:8-10
    3 verses
    83%

    8He lies in wait near the villages. From ambushes, he murders the innocent. His eyes are secretly set against the helpless.

    9He lurks in secret as a lion in his ambush. He lies in wait to catch the helpless. He catches the helpless, when he draws him in his net.

    10The helpless are crushed. They collapse. They fall under his strength.

  • Ps 22:12-13
    2 verses
    81%

    12Many bulls have surrounded me. Strong bulls of Bashan have encircled me.

    13They open their mouths wide against me, lions tearing prey and roaring.

  • 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 cubs, and no one made them afraid?

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

  • Hos 13:7-8
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    80%

    7Therefore I am like a lion to them. Like a leopard, I will lurk by the path.

    8I will meet them like a bear that is bereaved of her cubs, and will tear the covering of their heart. There I will devour them like a lioness. The wild animal will tear them.

  • Isa 5:29
    79%

    29Their roaring will be like a lioness. They will roar like young lions. Yes, they shall roar, and seize their prey and carry it off, and there will be no one to deliver.

  • Ps 17:11
    79%

    11They have now surrounded 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, the teeth of the young lions, are broken.

    11The old lion perishes for lack of prey. The cubs of the lioness are scattered abroad.

  • Job 38:39-40
    2 verses
    78%

    39"Can you hunt the prey for the lioness, or satisfy the appetite of the young lions,

    40when they crouch in their dens, and lie in wait in the thicket?

  • Num 23:24
    77%

    24Behold, the people rises up as a lioness, As a lion he lifts himself up. He shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, and drinks the blood of the slain."

  • Ps 7:2
    77%

    2lest they tear apart my soul like a lion, ripping it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.

  • Ezek 19:6-7
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    77%

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

    7He knew their palaces, and laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and its fullness, because of the noise of his roaring.

  • Jer 25:38
    77%

    38He has 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, Yahweh, confront him. Cast him down. Deliver my soul from the wicked by your sword;

  • Ezek 19:2-3
    2 verses
    76%

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

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

  • Prov 28:15
    75%

    15As a roaring lion or a charging bear, so is a wicked ruler over helpless people.

  • Amos 3:4
    75%

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

  • Jer 2:15
    75%

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

  • Gen 49:9
    75%

    9Judah is a lion's cub. From the prey, my son, you have gone up. He stooped down, he crouched as a lion, as a lioness. Who will rouse him up?

  • Prov 1:12
    74%

    12let's swallow them up alive like Sheol, and whole, like those who go down into the pit.

  • 1 Pet 5:8
    74%

    8Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

  • Job 28:8
    74%

    8The proud animals have not trodden it, nor has the fierce lion passed by there.

  • Ps 58:6
    74%

    6Break their teeth, God, in their mouth. Break out the great teeth of the young lions, Yahweh.

  • Prov 30:30
    74%

    30The lion, which is mightiest among animals, and doesn't turn away for any;

  • Ps 57:4
    74%

    4My soul is among lions. 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 on my land, strong, and without number. His teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he has the fangs of a lioness.

  • Ps 35:17
    74%

    17Lord, how long will you look on? Rescue my soul from their destruction, my precious life from the lions.

  • Prov 1:18
    74%

    18but these lay wait for their own blood. They lurk secretly for their own lives.

  • Lam 4:19
    73%

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

  • Ps 56:6
    73%

    6They conspire and lurk, watching my steps, they are eager to take my life.

  • Job 10:16
    73%

    16If my head is held high, you hunt me like a lion. Again you show yourself powerful to 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 your land desolate, that your cities be laid waste, without inhabitant.

  • Ps 34:10
    73%

    10The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger, but those who seek Yahweh shall not lack any good thing.

  • Ps 17:9
    73%

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

  • Isa 31:4
    73%

    4For thus says Yahweh to me, "As the lion and the young lion growling over his prey, if a multitude of shepherds is called together against him, will not be dismayed at their voice, nor abase himself for the noise of them, so Yahweh of Armies will come down to fight on Mount Zion and on its heights.

  • Prov 28:1
    73%

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

  • Jer 51:38
    72%

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

  • Ps 37:32
    72%

    32The wicked watches the righteous, and seeks to kill him.

  • Jer 5:6
    72%

    6Therefore a lion out of the forest shall kill them, a wolf of the evenings shall destroy them, a leopard shall watch against their cities; everyone who goes out there shall be torn in pieces; because their transgressions are many, [and] their backsliding is increased.