Verse Lens · Context pointer
Psalms 57:4 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 4. 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.
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Role in This Section
Psalm 57:4: The speaker's “My soul is among lions” contributes testimony, resolve, or self-address to “Refuge under wings until danger passes.”
Read It With
- Psalms 57:1–11
Read Psalms 57:4 with 57:1–11. Read alone, “My soul is among lions” could lose the individual voice, the parallel line or movement it develops, and the psalm's outcome. The complete movement establishes: Within Psalms 57:1–11, the individual voice carries the movement “Refuge under wings until danger passes” as part of “Refuge under wings until danger passes.” Its lament-confidence form and poetic parallelism hold the petitions, images, memories, or praise together before any single line is applied.
Why It Needs Context
The line “My soul is among lions” is a premise, image, address, response, or transition inside Psalms 57:1–11; its parallel neighbors and the movement titled “Refuge under wings until danger passes” must supply the claim before teaching or application.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Psalms 57:1–11 — Refuge under wings until danger passesSources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? probable
These are the sources used directly for this lens. Language, grammar, disagreements, and the complete source shelf remain attached to the full thought-unit research record.
Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete thought-unit coverage.
Exact location: Psalms 57:1–11, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Psalms
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording and morphology checked at the exact unit without treating morphology as a complete apparatus or interpretation.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Ps.xml, OSIS 57:1–11
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