Psalms 54:3
For proud men have risen against me, and terrible men seek my life, men who do not set God before them. Selah
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2Listen, O God, to my prayer, attend to the words of my mouth.
4But see! God is my helper, the Lord is sustaining my life.
Cross References
Psalms 16:8I keep the Lord always in mind: with him at my hand, I can never be moved.
Psalms 22:16For dogs are round about me, a band of knaves encircles me, gnawing my hands and my feet.
Psalms 40:14May those who are seeking my life be ashamed and confounded together; may those who delight in my hurt be defeated and brought to dishonor.
Psalms 53:4Have they learned their lesson, those workers of evil? Who ate up my people, eating, devouring, never calling to the Lord.
Psalms 69:8I became to my kindred a foreigner, to my mother’s sons a stranger.
Matthew 27:20But the chief priests and elders persuaded the crowds to ask for Barabbas, and to kill 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 →