Psalms 54:2

Attend to me, and listen to me: I was grieved in my meditation, and troubled; 1

LXX2012 (US English)

In The King James Version

Hear my prayer, O God; give ear to the words of my mouth.

In Context

1Listen, O God, to my prayer; and disregard not my supplication. 1

3because of the voice of the enemy, and because of the oppression of the sinner: for they brought iniquity against me, and were wrathfully angry with me. 1

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Cross References

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?

Psalms 5:1Listen to my words, O Lord, + 5:1 Lit. understand. attend to my cry. 1

Psalms 55:1Have mercy upon me, O God; for man has trodden me down; all the day long he warring has afflicted me. 1

Psalms 143:7Send forth your hand from on high; rescue me, and deliver me out of great + 143:7 Gr. many. waters, out of the hand of strange children; 1

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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