Psalms 54:3

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

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

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

In Context

2Hearken, O God, to my prayer; 1 And disregard not my supplication. 1

4Because of the voice of the enemy, and because of the oppression of the sinner: 1 For they brought iniquity against me, 1 And were wrathfully angry with me. 1

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Cross References

Psalms 16:8Keep me as the apple of the eye 1 From those that resist thy right hand: 1 Thou shalt screen me by the covering of thy wings, 1

Psalms 40:14Blessed be the Lord God of Israel from everlasting, and to everlasting. 1 So be it, so be it.

Psalms 53:4O God, hear my prayer; 1 Hearken to the words of my mouth. 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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