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Psalm 54
- Purpose
- To offer praise and prayer to God, to supply God’s people with texts for worship, and to provide reflection on the sovereignty of God and some of life’s toughest questions
- Author
- Various; nearly half are linked with David
- Date
- Written over the course of many centuries; the process of collecting and editing was likely completed after the Babylonian exile
- Setting
- Varied, but a postexilic setting accounts for much of the editorial activity and grouping of the psalms
Psalms has 36,194 words: about 2 hours 32 minutes to read, or 4 hours 18 minutes to listen to. Read it from the start or listen from the start.
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To the chief Musician on Neginoth, Maschil, A Psalm of David, when the Ziphims came and said to Saul, Doth not David hide himself with us?
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4Behold,
5He shall
6I will
7For he hath
Footnotes
Save Me by Your Name
For the choirmaster. With stringed instruments. A Maskil of David. When the Ziphites went to Saul and said, “Is David not hiding among us?”
1Save me, O God, by Your name,and vindicate me by Your might! 2Hear my prayer, O God;listen to the words of my mouth. 3For strangers rise up against me,and ruthless men seek my life—men with no regard for God.Selah 4Surely God is my helper;the Lord is the sustainer of my soul. 5He will reward my enemies with evil.In Your faithfulness, destroy them. 6Freely I will sacrifice to You;I will praise Your name, O LORD, for it is good. 7For He has delivered me from every trouble,and my eyes have looked in triumph on my foes.
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