Psalms 54:3
For strangers are risen vp against me, and tyrants seeke my soule: they haue not set God before them. Selah.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
In Context
2O God, heare my prayer: hearken vnto the wordes of my mouth.
4Beholde, God is mine helper: the Lord is with them that vpholde my soule.
Cross References
Psalms 16:8I haue set the Lord alwayes before me: for hee is at my right hand: therefore I shall not slide.
Psalms 22:16For dogges haue compassed me, and the assemblie of the wicked haue inclosed me: they perced mine hands and my feete.
Psalms 40:14Let them be confounded and put to shame together, that seeke my soule to destroye it: let them be driuen backward and put to rebuke, that desire mine hurt.
Psalms 53:4Doe not the workers of iniquitie knowe that they eate vp my people as they eate bread? they call not vpon God.
Psalms 69:8I am become a stranger vnto my brethren, euen an aliant vnto my mothers sonnes.
Matthew 27:20But the chiefe Priestes and the Elders had persuaded the people that they shoulde aske Barabbas, and should destroy Iesus.
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 →