Psalm 17:12 - King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

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Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Like a lion greedy and eager to tear his prey, and as a young lion lurking in hidden places.

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

They are like a lion eager to rip its prey; they are like a strong young lion lying in wait.

Catholic Public Domain Version

And he set darkness as his hiding place, with his tabernacle all around him: dark waters in the clouds of the air.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And he made darkness his covert, his pavilion round about him: dark waters in the clouds of the air.

English Standard Version 2016

He is like a lion eager to tear, as a young lion lurking in ambush.

Psalm 17:12 Cross References

Psalm 10:9

He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: He lieth in wait to catch the poor: He doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net.

Psalm 22:13

They gaped upon me with their mouths, As a ravening and a roaring lion.

Psalm 7:2

Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, While there is none to deliver.

2 Timothy 4:17

Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that by me the preaching might be fully known, and that all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.

1 Peter 5:8

Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: