Psalms 35:17
Lord, how long will you look on? rescue my soul from their destructions, my darling from the lions.
Updated King James Version
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
16With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.
18I will give you thanks in the great congregation: I will praise you among much people.
Cross References
Psalms 10:14You have seen it; for you behold mischief and spite, to requite it with your hand: the poor commits himself unto you; you are the helper of the fatherless.
Psalms 22:20Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog.
Psalms 57:4My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
Psalms 74:9We see not our signs: there is no more any prophet: neither is there among us any that knows how long.
Psalms 94:3LORD, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked triumph?
Habakkuk 1:13You are of purer eyes than to behold evil, and can not look on iniquity: wherefore look you upon them that deal treacherously, and hold your tongue when the wicked devours the man that is more righteous than he?
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 →