Psalms 54:3
For enemies have risen up against me, And oppressors seek my life; They have not set God before their eyes. [[Pause.]]
Noyes Bible
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 the support of my life.
Cross References
Psalms 16:8I set the LORD before me at all times; Since he is at my right hand, I shall not fall.
Psalms 22:16For dogs have surrounded me; Bands of evil-doers have encompassed me,—Like lions my hands and my feet.
Psalms 40:14May they all be confounded and covered with shame Who seek to take away my life! Let them be driven back with disgrace Who desire to do me injury!
Psalms 53:4Shall not the evil-doers be requited, Who eat up my people like bread, And call not upon God?
Psalms 69:8I am become a stranger to my brothers; Yea, an alien to my mother's sons.
Matthew 27:20But the chief priests and the elders persuaded the multitudes to ask for Barabbas, and to 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 →