Psalms 35:17
How long, Lord, will you look on? Rescue me from their roaring, my precious life from the lions.
Open English Bible (US)
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
16impiously mocking and mocking, bearing their teeth at me.
18I will then give you thanks in the great congregation, and praise you before many people.
Cross References
Psalms 10:14You have seen the trouble and sorrow; you mark it all, and will take it in hand. The hapless can count on you, helper of orphans.
Psalms 22:20Deliver my life from the sword my life from the power of the dogs.
Psalms 57:4In the midst of lions I lie, who devour human prey. Their teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue is a sharpened sword.
Psalms 74:9No symbol of ours do we see any more: no prophet is there any more, none is with us who knows how long.
Psalms 94:3Lord, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked exult,
Habakkuk 1:13Your eyes are too pure to look at evil, you cannot condone iniquity. So why do you regard the treacherous in silence, while the wicked swallows the upright?
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 →