Psalms 54:3
For strangers are risen up against me, and violent men have sought after my soul. They have not set God before them. Selah.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
2Hear my prayer, O God. Give ear to the words of my mouth.
4Behold, God is my helper. LORD is of those who uphold my soul.
Cross References
Psalms 16:8I beheld (LXX/NT) LORD always before me. Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
Psalms 22:16For dogs have encompassed me. A company of evil-doers have enclosed me. They pierced (LXX/DSS) my hands and my feet.
Psalms 40:14Let them be put to shame and confounded together who seek after my soul to destroy it. Let them be turned backward and brought to dishonor who delight in my hurt.
Psalms 53:4Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people [as] they eat bread, and call not upon God?
Psalms 69:8I have become a stranger to my brothers, and an alien to my mother's sons.
Matthew 27:20But the chief priests and the elders persuaded the multitudes that they should ask for Barabbas, and destroy Jesus.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 54:2-4
Complaints. 1 Save me, O God, by thy name, and judge me by thy strength. 2 Hear my prayer, O God; give ear to the words of my mouth. 3 For strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah. We may observe here, 1. The great distress that David was now in, which the title gives an account of. The Ziphim came of their own accord, and informed Saul where David was, with a promise to deliver him into his hand. One would have thought that when David had… Read the whole commentary →