Psalms 17:12 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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

Psalms 17:12 —

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Psalms 7:2
Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.
Psalms 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.
1 Peter 5:8
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
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.
Psalms 22:13
They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 8-15)

We may observe, in these verses, I. What David prays for. Being compassed about with enemies that sought his life, he prays to God to preserve him safely through all their attempts against him, to the crown to which he was anointed. This prayer is both a prediction of the preservation of Christ through all the hardships and difficulties of his humiliation, to the glories and joys of his exalted st…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 12)

12. The figure made more special by that of a lion lurking.