Psalms 54:3
For strangers have risen up against me And terrible ones have sought my soul, They have not set God before them. Selah.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
2O God, hear my prayer, Give ear to the sayings of my mouth,
4Lo, God [is] a helper to me, The Lord [is] with those supporting my soul,
Cross References
Psalms 16:8I did place Jehovah before me continually, Because — at my right hand I am not moved.
Psalms 22:16And to the dust of death thou appointest me, For surrounded me have dogs, A company of evil doers have compassed me, Piercing my hands and my feet.
Psalms 40:14They are ashamed and confounded together, Who are seeking my soul to destroy it, They are turned backward, And are ashamed, who are desiring my evil.
Psalms 53:4Have not workers of iniquity known, Those eating my people have eaten bread, God they have not called.
Psalms 69:8A stranger I have been to my brother, And a foreigner to sons of my mother.
Matthew 27:20And the chief priests and the elders did persuade the multitudes that they might ask for themselves Barabbas, and might 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 →