Psalms 7:2-3 - Compare All Versions
Psalms 7:2-3 NIV (New International Version)
or they will tear me apart like a lion and rip me to pieces with no one to rescue me. LORD my God, if I have done this and there is guilt on my hands
Psalms 7:2-3 ESV (English Standard Version 2025)
lest like a lion they tear my soul apart, rending it in pieces, with none to deliver. O LORD my God, if I have done this, if there is wrong in my hands
Psalms 7:2-3 NLT (New Living Translation)
If you don’t, they will maul me like a lion, tearing me to pieces with no one to rescue me. O LORD my God, if I have done wrong or am guilty of injustice
Psalms 7:2-3 CSB (Christian Standard Bible)
or they will tear me like a lion, ripping me apart with no one to rescue me. LORD my God, if I have done this, if there is injustice on my hands
Psalms 7:2-3 KJV (King James Version)
Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, While there is none to deliver. O LORD my God, if I have done this; If there be iniquity in my hands
Psalms 7:2-3 NKJV (New King James Version)
Lest they tear me like a lion, Rending me in pieces, while there is none to deliver. O LORD my God, if I have done this: If there is iniquity in my hands
Psalms 7:1-5 MSG (The Message)
GOD! God! I am running to you for dear life; the chase is wild. If they catch me, I’m finished: ripped to shreds by foes fierce as lions, dragged into the forest and left unlooked for, unremembered. GOD, if I’ve done what they say— betrayed my friends, ripped off my enemies— If my hands are really that dirty, let them get me, walk all over me, leave me flat on my face in the dirt.
Psalms 7:2-3 NASB2020 (New American Standard Bible - NASB)
Or he will tear my soul like a lion, Dragging me away, while there is no one to rescue me. ¶O LORD my God, if I have done this, If there is injustice in my hands
Psalms 7:2-3 AMP (Amplified Bible)
So that my enemy will not tear me like a lion, Dragging me away while there is no one to rescue [me]. ¶O LORD my God, if I have done this, If there is injustice in my hands
Psalms 7:2-3 NET (New English Translation)
Otherwise they will rip me to shreds like a lion; they will tear me to bits and no one will be able to rescue me. O LORD my God, if I have done what they say, or am guilty of unjust actions