Psalm 17:12 - Modern English Version

¹² like a lion eager to rip its prey, and like a young lion lurking in secret places.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, And as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² Like a lion greedy and eager to tear his prey, and as a young lion lurking in hidden places.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² 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

¹² They are like a lion eager to rip its prey; they are like a strong young lion lying in wait.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² And he set darkness as his hiding place, with his tabernacle all around him: dark waters in the clouds of the air.

Psalm 17:12 Tagairtí Cros

Psalm 10:9

He lies in wait secretly as a lion in his den; he lies in wait to catch the poor; he catches the poor, drawing them into his net.

Psalm 22:13

They open wide their mouths at me, like a raging and roaring lion.

Psalm 7:2

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

2 Timothy 4:17

But the Lord stood with me and strengthened me, so that through 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 and watchful, because your adversary the devil walks around as a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.