Psalms 54:1
Listen, O God, to my prayer; and disregard not my supplication. 1
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
Save me, O God, by thy name, and judge me by thy strength.
In Context
2Attend to me, and listen to me: I was grieved in my meditation, and troubled; 1
Cross References
Exodus 23:21Take heed to yourself and listen to him, and disobey him not; for he will not give way to you, for my name is on him.
1 Samuel 23:19And the Ziphites came up out of the dry country to Saul to the hill, saying, Behold, is not David hidden with us in Messara, in the narrows in Caene in the hill of Echela, which is on the right of Jessaemon?
2 Chronicles 20:6And he said, O Lord God of my fathers, are not you God in heaven above, and are not you Lord of all the kingdoms of the nations? and is there not in your hand the might of dominion, and there is no one who can resist you?
Psalms 26:1The Lord is my light and my Saviour; whom shall I fear? the Lord is the defender of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? 1
Psalms 48:10When he shall see wise men dying, the fool and the senseless one shall perish together; and they shall leave their wealth to strangers. 1
Psalms 99:4Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and his courts with hymns; give thanks to him, praise his name. 1
Matthew Henry on Psalms 54:1
The key of this psalm hangs at the door, for the title tells us upon what occasion it was penned—when the inhabitants of Ziph, men of Judah (types of Judas the traitor), betrayed David to Saul, by informing him where he was and putting him in a way how to seize him. This they did twice ( 1 Sam. xxiii. 19 ; xxvi. 1 ), and it is upon record to their everlasting infamy. The psalm is sweet; the former part of it, perhaps, was meditated when he was in his distress and put into writing when the danger was over, with the… Read the whole commentary →