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Psalm 7 Literal Standard Version
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Notes on this text (1)
- Greek and Latin Bibles number most Psalms one lower than Hebrew and English Bibles.
1 A SHIGGAION OF DAVID, THAT HE SUNG TO YHWH CONCERNING THE WORDS OF CUSH, A BENJAMITE. O YHWH, my God, in You I have trusted, || Save me from all my pursuers, and deliver me.
1 A meditation by David, which he sang to Yahweh, concerning the words of Cush, the Benjamite. Yahweh, my God, I take refuge in you. Save me from all those who pursue me, and deliver me,
2 Lest he tear my soul as a lion, || Tearing, and there is no deliverer.
2 lest they tear apart my soul like a lion, ripping it in pieces, while there is no one to deliver.
3 O YHWH, my God, if I have done this, || If there is iniquity in my hands,
3 Yahweh, my God, if I have done this, if there is iniquity in my hands,
4 If I have done my well-wisher evil, || And draw my adversary without cause,
4 if I have rewarded evil to him who was at peace with me (yes, I have plundered him who without cause was my adversary),
5 [Then] an enemy pursues my soul, and overtakes, || And treads down my life to the earth, || And places my glory in the dust. Selah.
5 let the enemy pursue my soul, and overtake it; yes, let him tread my life down to the earth, and lay my glory in the dust. Selah.
6 Rise, O YHWH, in Your anger, || Be lifted up at the wrath of my adversaries, || And awake Yourself for me: You have commanded judgment.
6 Arise, Yahweh, in your anger. Lift up yourself against the rage of my adversaries. Awake for me. You have commanded judgment.
7 And a congregation of peoples surround You, || And over it turn back on high.
7 Let the congregation of the peoples surround you. Rule over them on high.
8 YHWH judges the peoples; Judge me, O YHWH, || According to my righteousness, || And according to my integrity [that is] on me.
8 Yahweh administers judgment to the peoples. Judge me, Yahweh, according to my righteousness, and to my integrity that is in me.
9 Please let the evil of the wicked be ended, || And establish the righteous, || And a trier of hearts and reins is the righteous God.
9 Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end, but establish the righteous; their minds and hearts are searched by the righteous God.
10 My shield [is] on God, || Savior of the upright in heart!
10 My shield is with God, who saves the upright in heart.
11 God [is] judging right, || And He is not angry at all times.
11 God is a righteous judge, yes, a God who has indignation every day.
12 If [one] does not turn, || He sharpens His sword, || He has bent His bow [and] He prepares it,
12 If a man doesn’t repent, he will sharpen his sword; he has bent and strung his bow.
13 Indeed, He has prepared for Himself || Instruments of death, || He makes His arrows for burning pursuers.
13 He has also prepared for himself the instruments of death. He makes ready his flaming arrows.
14 Behold, he travails [with] iniquity, || And he has conceived perverseness, || And has brought forth falsehood.
14 Behold, he travails with iniquity. Yes, he has conceived mischief, and brought out falsehood.
15 He has prepared a pit, and he digs it, || And he falls into a ditch he makes.
15 He has dug a hole, and has fallen into the pit which he made.
16 His perverseness returns on his head, || And his violence comes down on his crown.
16 The trouble he causes shall return to his own head. His violence shall come down on the crown of his own head.
17 I thank YHWH, || According to His righteousness, || And I praise the Name of YHWH Most High!
17 I will give thanks to Yahweh according to his righteousness, and will sing praise to the name of Yahweh Most High.
Cross references (17)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Psalm 31:15; Habakkuk 3:1; 1 Peter 4:19; Psalm 18:2; Psalm 35:1–3
- 2 Psalm 50:22; 2 Timothy 4:17; Isaiah 38:13; 1 Peter 5:8; Deuteronomy 33:20
- 3 1 Samuel 24:11; 1 Samuel 26:18–19; Psalm 59:3; Job 11:14; Joshua 22:22
- 4 1 Samuel 24:17–19; Psalm 55:20; Jeremiah 18:20–21; Psalm 109:5; 1 Samuel 24:7
- 5 Malachi 4:3; Psalm 44:5; Psalm 49:12; Jeremiah 17:13; Psalm 3:2
- 6 Psalm 35:23; Psalm 44:23; Isaiah 33:10; Psalm 3:7; Psalm 138:7
- 7 Revelation 19:2; Revelation 18:20; Revelation 16:5–7; Psalm 138:6; Psalm 113:5–6
- 8 Psalm 96:13; Romans 14:10–12; 2 Corinthians 1:12; Psalm 43:1; Psalm 98:9
- 9 Jeremiah 17:10; Jeremiah 11:20; Jeremiah 20:12; 1 Chronicles 28:9; 1 Samuel 16:7
- 10 Psalm 125:4; Psalm 84:11; Genesis 15:1; Proverbs 28:18; Proverbs 2:21
- 11 Nahum 1:2; Nahum 1:6; Psalm 7:8; Psalm 94:15; Psalm 140:12–13
- 12 Acts 3:19; Matthew 3:10; Isaiah 55:6–7; Deuteronomy 32:41; Psalm 85:4
- 13 2 Thessalonians 1:6; Habakkuk 3:13; Revelation 6:10; Revelation 16:6; Psalm 64:7
- 14 Job 15:35; James 1:15; Isaiah 33:11; Job 15:20; Isaiah 59:4–5
- 15 Job 4:8; Psalm 141:10; Proverbs 26:27; Ecclesiastes 10:8–9; Psalm 35:7–8
- 16 Esther 9:25; Psalm 37:12–13; 1 Kings 2:32; 1 Samuel 28:19; 1 Samuel 24:12–13
- 17 Psalm 9:2; Psalm 98:2; Psalm 71:15–16; Psalm 111:3; Psalm 92:8
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).
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“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).
Now the story which gave occasion to this prophecy may be easily recognised in the second book of Kings. For there Chusi, the friend of king David, went over to the side of Abessalon, his son, who was carrying on war against his father, for the purpose of discovering and reporting the designs which he was taking against his father, …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)
But that it belongs to God only to know men's secrets, hear what saith the prophet, "Thou most entirely alone knowest the hearts;" and again, "God trieth the hearts and reins; " and Jeremiah too saith, "The heart is deep above all things, and it is man, and who shall know him?" and, "Man shall look on the face, but …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)
… for a faithful man it is hard to find: not that thou shouldest shew thy conscience to me, for thou art not to be judged of man's judgment; but that thou shew the sincerity of thy faith to God, who trieth the reins and hearts, and knoweth the thoughts of men.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)