2 Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.
2 or they will tear me apart like a lion and rip me to pieces with no one to rescue me.
2 lest like a lion they tear my soul apart, rending it in pieces, with none to deliver.
2 If they catch me, I'm finished: ripped to shreds by foes fierce as lions, dragged into the forest and left unlooked for, unremembered.
2 Lest they tear me like a lion, Rending me in pieces, while there is none to deliver.
2 If you don't, they will maul me like a lion, tearing me to pieces with no one to rescue me.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Psalm 7:2
Commentary on Psalm 7:1-9
(Read Psalm 7:1-9)
David flees to God for succour. But Christ alone could call on Heaven to attest his uprightness in all things. All His works were wrought in righteousness; and the prince of this world found nothing whereof justly to accuse him. Yet for our sakes, submitting to be charged as guilty, he suffered all evils, but, being innocent, he triumphed over them all. The plea is, "For the righteous God trieth the hearts and the reins." He knows the secret wickedness of the wicked, and how to bring it to an end; he is witness to the secret sincerity of the just, and has ways of establishing it. When a man has made peace with God about all his sins, upon the terms of grace and mercy, through the sacrifice of the Mediator, he may, in comparison with his enemies, appeal to God's justice to decide.