Psalms 54:3
(54:5) For strangers [to goodness] are risen up against me, and powerful oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
2(54:4) O God, hear my prayer; give ear to the words of my mouth.
4(54:6) Behold, God is a helper unto me: the Lord is among those that uphold my soul.
Cross References
Psalms 16:8I have always set the Lord before me, that, being at my right hand, I might not be moved.
Psalms 22:16(22:17) For dogs have encompassed me; the assembly of the wicked have enclosed me: like lions [they threaten] my hands and my feet.
Psalms 40:14(40:15) May those be made ashamed and put to the blush together that seek after my soul to take her away: let them be driven backward and be confounded, that wish for my mishap.
Psalms 53:4(53:5) Is there no knowledge in the workers of wickedness? who eat up my people as they eat bread: [while] they do not call on God.
Psalms 69:8(69:9) A stranger am I become unto my brothers, and an alien unto my mother's children.
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 →