Psalms 54:3
For strangers are risen up against me, and the violent seek after my life: they have not set God before them. Selah.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
2O God, hear my prayer; give ear to the words of my mouth.
4Behold, God is my helper; the Lord is among them that uphold my soul.
Cross References
Psalms 16:8I have set Jehovah continually before me; because [he is] at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
Psalms 22:16For dogs have encompassed me; an assembly of evil-doers have surrounded me: they pierced my hands and my feet.
Psalms 40:14Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be turned backward and confounded that take pleasure in mine adversity;
Psalms 53:4Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, eating up my people [as] they eat bread? they call not upon God.
Psalms 69:8I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother's sons;
Matthew 27:20But the chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowds that they should beg 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 →