Psalms 7:2
| NET© | Otherwise they will rip 1 me 2 to shreds like a lion; they will tear me to bits and no one will be able to rescue me. 3 |
| NIV© | or they will tear me like a lion and rip me to pieces with no-one to rescue me. |
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| NASB© | Or he will tear my soul like a lion, Dragging me away, while there is none to deliver. |
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| NLT© | If you don’t, they will maul me like a lion, tearing me to pieces with no one to rescue me. |
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| MSG© | If they catch me, I'm finished: ripped to shreds by foes fierce as lions, dragged into the forest and left unlooked for, unremembered. |
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| BBE© | So that he may not come rushing on my soul like a lion, wounding it, while there is no one to be my saviour. |
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| NRSV© | or like a lion they will tear me apart; they will drag me away, with no one to rescue. |
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| NKJV© | Lest they tear me like a lion, Rending me in pieces, while there is none to deliver. |
| biblegateway Psa 7:2 | |
| KJV | Lest he tear <02963> (8799) my soul <05315> like a lion <0738>, rending [it] in pieces <06561> (8802), while [there is] none to deliver <05337> (8688). {none...: Heb. not a deliverer} |
| NASB© | Or <06435> he will tear <02963> my soul <05315> like a lion <0743>, Dragging <06561> me away <06561>, while there <0369> is none <0369> to deliver <05337>. |
| Hebrew | <05337> lyum <0369> Nyaw <06561> qrp <05315> yspn <0738> hyrak <02963> Prjy <06435> Np |
| NET© [draft] ITL | |
| NET© | Otherwise they will rip 1 me 2 to shreds like a lion; they will tear me to bits and no one will be able to rescue me. 3 |
| NET© Notes |
1 tn The verb is singular in the Hebrew text, even though “all who chase me” in v. 1 refers to a whole group of enemies. The singular is also used in vv. 4-5, but the psalmist returns to the plural in v. 6. The singular is probably collective, emphasizing the united front that the psalmist’s enemies present. This same alternation between a collective singular and a plural referring to enemies appears in Pss 9:3, 6; 13:4; 31:4, 8; 41:6, 10-11; 42:9-10; 55:3; 64:1-2; 74:3-4; 89:22-23; 106:10-11; 143:3, 6, 9. 2 tn Heb “my life.” The pronominal suffix attached to נֶפֶשׁ (nefesh) is equivalent to a personal pronoun. See Ps 6:3. 3 tn Heb “tearing and there is no one rescuing.” The verbal form translated “tearing” is a singular active participle. |
