1 For the music director. With stringed instruments. A psalm (maskil) of David, concerning the time when the Ziphites came to Saul and told him, “David is hiding among us.” God, because of your very nature, please save me! Vindicate me by your power! 2 God, please hear my prayer; listen to what I'm saying. 3 For strangers are coming to attack me—violent men who don't care about God are trying to kill me. Selah. 4 But God helps me; the Lord saves my life! 5 The evil my enemies have done will come back upon them. I depend on you to destroy them. 6 I will happily offer a sacrifice to you; I will praise the kind of person you are, Lord, for you are good. 7 For he has saved me from all my troubles; and I have seen those who hated me defeated.
Psalm 54 Free Bible Version
Audio: World English Bible (WEB), read by Winfred W. Henson · About the recordings
Notes on this text (1)
- Greek and Latin Bibles number most Psalms one lower than Hebrew and English Bibles.
Cross references (7)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Proverbs 18:10; 1 Samuel 26:1; Psalm 79:9; Psalm 20:1; Acts 4:12
- 2 Psalm 130:2; Psalm 143:7; Psalm 13:3; Psalm 55:1–2; Psalm 5:1–3
- 3 Psalm 86:14; Psalm 36:1; John 16:3; Psalm 53:4; Job 19:13–15
- 4 Hebrews 13:6; Psalm 118:6–7; Isaiah 41:10; Romans 8:31; Psalm 118:13
- 5 Psalm 143:12; Psalm 89:49; Psalm 31:23; Psalm 94:23; Psalm 137:8
- 6 Psalm 52:9; Psalm 140:13; Psalm 147:1; Psalm 7:17; Psalm 107:22
- 7 Psalm 59:10; Psalm 112:8; Psalm 92:11; Psalm 118:7; 2 Timothy 4:18
Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences
What the Fathers said
Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).
How these were chosen
“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
Of this Psalm we undertake to treat with you, as far as the Lord supplieth us. A brother biddeth us that we may have the will, and prayeth that we may have the power.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)