Caravaggio, Saint Jerome Writing (c. 1605), Galleria Borghese. Public domain.
14 verses in the King James Version. Word study for “lest” →
Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.
Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.
Consider and hear me, O LORD my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;
Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him; and those that trouble me rejoice when I am moved.
Unto thee will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.
Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto thee.
For I said, Hear me , lest otherwise they should rejoice over me: when my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves against me.
Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.
Slay them not, lest my people forget: scatter them by thy power; and bring them down, O Lord our shield.
They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.
Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy them .
For the rod of the wicked shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous; lest the righteous put forth their hands unto iniquity.
Grant not, O LORD , the desires of the wicked: further not his wicked device; lest they exalt themselves. Selah.
Hear me speedily, O LORD : my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.
