Psalms 54:1
Save me, O God, by your name, by your power secure for me justice.
Open English Bible (US)
In The King James Version
Save me, O God, by thy name, and judge me by thy strength.
In Context
2Listen, O God, to my prayer, attend to the words of my mouth.
Cross References
Psalms 26:1Defend me, O Lord, for my walk has been blameless; in the Lord have I trusted unswervingly:
Psalms 48:10Your fame, O God, like your name, shall extend to the ends of the earth. Victory fills your hand.
Psalms 99:4You are a king who loves justice, equity you have established: justice and right you have wrought for Jacob.
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 →