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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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or they will tear me apart like a lion(A)
    and rip me to pieces with no one to rescue(B) me.

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22 Repent, all of you who forget me,
    or I will tear you apart,
    and no one will help you.

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22 “Consider this, you who forget God,(A)
    or I will tear you to pieces, with no one to rescue you:(B)

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13 I waited patiently all night,
    but I was torn apart as though by lions.
    Suddenly, my life was over.

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13 I waited patiently(A) till dawn,
    but like a lion he broke(B) all my bones;(C)
    day and night(D) you made an end of me.

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Stay alert! Watch out for your great enemy, the devil. He prowls around like a roaring lion, looking for someone to devour.

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Be alert and of sober mind.(A) Your enemy the devil prowls around(B) like a roaring lion(C) looking for someone to devour.

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17 But the Lord stood with me and gave me strength so that I might preach the Good News in its entirety for all the Gentiles to hear. And he rescued me from certain death.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 4:17 Greek from the mouth of a lion.

17 But the Lord stood at my side(A) and gave me strength,(B) so that through me the message might be fully proclaimed and all the Gentiles might hear it.(C) And I was delivered from the lion’s mouth.(D)

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So now I will attack you like a lion,
    like a leopard that lurks along the road.
Like a bear whose cubs have been taken away,
    I will tear out your heart.
I will devour you like a hungry lioness
    and mangle you like a wild animal.

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So I will be like a lion(A) to them,
    like a leopard I will lurk by the path.
Like a bear robbed of her cubs,(B)
    I will attack them and rip them open;
like a lion(C) I will devour them—
    a wild animal will tear them apart.(D)

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12 The king’s anger is like a lion’s roar,
    but his favor is like dew on the grass.

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12 A king’s rage is like the roar of a lion,(A)
    but his favor is like dew(B) on the grass.(C)

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15 But they are glad now that I am in trouble;
    they gleefully join together against me.
I am attacked by people I don’t even know;
    they slander me constantly.

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15 But when I stumbled, they gathered in glee;(A)
    assailants gathered against me without my knowledge.
    They slandered(B) me without ceasing.

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13 Like lions they open their jaws against me,
    roaring and tearing into their prey.

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13 Roaring lions(A) that tear their prey(B)
    open their mouths wide(C) against me.

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12 They are like hungry lions, eager to tear me apart—
    like young lions hiding in ambush.

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12 They are like a lion(A) hungry for prey,(B)
    like a fierce lion crouching in cover.

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Like lions crouched in hiding,
    they wait to pounce on the helpless.
Like hunters they capture the helpless
    and drag them away in nets.

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    like a lion in cover he lies in wait.
He lies in wait to catch the helpless;(A)
    he catches the helpless and drags them off in his net.(B)

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Although you know I am not guilty,
    no one can rescue me from your hands.

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though you know that I am not guilty(A)
    and that no one can rescue me from your hand?(B)

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My two sons had a fight out in the field. And since no one was there to stop it, one of them was killed.

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I your servant had two sons. They got into a fight with each other in the field, and no one was there to separate them. One struck the other and killed him.

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