Psalms 35:17
How long, O Lord, will You look on? Rescue my soul from their ravages, my precious life from these lions.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
Lord, how long wilt thou look on? rescue my soul from their destructions, my darling from the lions.
In Context
16Like godless jesters at a feast, they gnashed their teeth at me.
18Then I will give You thanks in the great assembly; I will praise You among many people.
Cross References
Psalms 10:14But You have regarded trouble and grief; You see to repay it by Your hand. The victim entrusts himself to You; You are the helper of the fatherless.
Psalms 22:20Deliver my soul from the sword, my precious life from the power of wild dogs.
Psalms 57:4My soul is among the lions; I lie down with ravenous beasts—with men whose teeth are spears and arrows, whose tongues are sharp swords.
Psalms 74:9There are no signs for us to see. There is no longer any prophet. And none of us knows how long this will last.
Psalms 94:3How long will the wicked, O LORD, how long will the wicked exult?
Habakkuk 1:13Your eyes are too pure to look upon evil, and You cannot tolerate wrongdoing. So why do You tolerate the faithless? Why are You silent while the wicked swallow up those more righteous than themselves?
Matthew Henry on Psalms 35:12-17
Prayer for Deliverance; Sorrowful Complaints. 11 False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not. 12 They rewarded me evil for good to the spoiling of my soul. 13 But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom. 14 I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother. 15 But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves… Read the whole commentary →