Psalms 54:2
Listen to my prayer, O God, and despise not my supplication.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Hear my prayer, O God; give ear to the words of my mouth.
In Context
1Unto the end. In verses, the understanding of David.
3Be attentive to me, and heed me. I have been grieved in my training, and I have been disturbed
Cross References
1 Samuel 23:19Then the Ziphites ascended to Saul at Gibeah, saying: “Behold, is not David hidden with us in very secure places in the woods on the hill of Hachilah, which is to the right of the desert?
Psalms 5:1Unto the end. For her who pursues the inheritance. A Psalm of David.
Psalms 55:1Unto the end. For the people who have become far removed from the Sacred. Of David, with the inscription of a title, when the Philistines held him in Gath.
Psalms 143:7Send forth your hand from on high: rescue me, and free me from many waters, from the hand of the sons of foreigners.
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 →