Psalms 54:1
Save me, God, by your name. Vindicate me in your might.
World English Bible
In The King James Version
Save me, O God, by thy name, and judge me by thy strength.
In Context
2Hear my prayer, God. Listen to the words of my mouth.
Cross References
Exodus 23:21Pay attention to him, and listen to his voice. Don’t provoke him, for he will not pardon your disobedience, for my name is in him.
1 Samuel 23:19Then the Ziphites came up to Saul to Gibeah, saying, “Doesn’t David hide himself with us in the strongholds in the woods, in the hill of Hachilah, which is on the south of the desert?
2 Chronicles 20:6and he said, “LORD, the God of our fathers, aren’t you God in heaven? Aren’t you ruler over all the kingdoms of the nations? Power and might are in your hand, so that no one is able to withstand you.
Psalms 26:1Judge me, LORD, for I have walked in my integrity. I have trusted also in the LORD without wavering.
Psalms 48:10As is your name, God, so is your praise to the ends of the earth. Your right hand is full of righteousness.
Psalms 99:4The King’s strength also loves justice. You establish equity. You execute justice and righteousness in 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 →