Psalms 54:3

Be attentive to me, and heed me. I have been grieved in my training, and I have been disturbed

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For strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah.

In Context

2Listen to my prayer, O God, and despise not my supplication.

4at the voice of the adversary and at the tribulation of the sinner. For they have diverted iniquities toward me, and they have been harassing me with rage.

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Cross References

Psalms 16:8From those who resist your right hand, preserve me like the pupil of your eye. Protect me under the shadow of your wings,

Psalms 40:14Blessed is the Lord God of Israel, for all generations and even forever. Amen. Amen.

Psalms 53:4O God, listen to my prayer. Pay attention to the words of my mouth.

Matthew 27:20But the leaders of the priests and the elders persuaded the people, so that they would ask for Barabbas, and so that Jesus would perish.

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 →

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