Psalms 7:1

_O LORD MY GOD, IN THEE DO I PUT MY TRUST: SAVE ME FROM ALL THEM THAT PERSECUTE ME, AND DELIVER ME:_ Title. - SHIGGAION - from a Hebrew root х_ SHAAGAH_ (H7686)], 'erred.' Referred by some to the erratic character of the character of the melody, betokening agitation. 'A song uttered in great excitement' (Ewald). Hengstenberg refers it to the subject of the psalm: 'the aberrations of the wicked.' Compare Habakkuk 3:1. It accords with this that the Hebrew root of Shiggaion, as above, occurs in Saul's address to David, 1 Samuel 26:21, "Behold, I have played the fool, and erred exceedingly" (cf. Psalms 119:21;...

At the commencement of the psalm, David speaks of having many enemies, and in the second verse he specifies some one in the singular number. And certainly, since the minds of all men were inflamed against him, he had very good reason for praying to be delivered from all his persecutors. But as the wicked cruelty of the king, like a firebrand, had kindled against him, though an innocent person, the hatred of the whole people, he had good reason also for turning his pen particularly against him. Thus, in the first verse, he describes the true character of his own circumstances—he was a persecuted man; and, in the second verse, the fountain or cause of the calamity he was enduring. There is great emphasis in these words which he uses in the beginning of the Psalms _O Jehovah my Godly in thee do I trust. _The verb, it is true, is in the past tense in the Hebrew; and, therefore, if literally...

1-9 David flees to God for succour. But Christ alone could call on Heaven to attest his uprightness in all things. All His works were wrought in righteousness; and the prince of this world found nothing whereof justly to accuse him. Yet for our sakes, submitting to be charged as guilty, he suffered all evils, but, being innocent, he triumphed over them all. The plea is, "For the righteous God trieth the hearts and the reins." He knows the secret wickedness of the wicked, and how to bring it to an end; he is witness to the secret sincerity of the just, and has ways of establishing it. When a man has made peace with God about all his sins, upon the terms of grace and mercy, through the sacrifice of the Mediator, he may, in comparison with his enemies, appeal to God's justice to decide....

PSALM VII _The psalmist prays against the malice of his enemies_, 1, 2; _protests his own innocence_, 3-5; _prays to God that he would vindicate him, for the edification_ _of his people_, 6-8; _prays against the wickedness of his enemies_, 9; _expresses strong confidence in God_, 10; _threatens transgressors with God's judgments_, 11-13; _shows the conduct and end of the ungodly_, 14-16; _and exults in the mercy and lovingkindness of his Maker_, 17. This Psalm is entitled, Shiggaion of Davi

O LORD MY GOD, IN THEE DO I PUT MY TRUST - The psalm opens with an expression of strong confidence in God. The psalmist addresses Yahweh as his God, and says that in him he trusts or confides. The word rendered trust - חסה _châsâh_ - means “to flee;” to flee to a place; to take shelter; and is applied to taking shelter under the shadow or protection of one Judges 9:15; Isaiah 30:2; Psalms 57:1; Psalms 61:4. The idea here is, that in his troubles he fled to God as a refuge, and felt safe under his protection. Save me from all them that persecute me

EXPOSITION THE composition of this psalm by David, asserted in the title, is generally allowed. Internal evidence seems to indicate for its date the earlier portion of David's public life—that during which he suffered persecution at the hands of Saul. There are two considerable difficulties connected with the title: (1) the meaning of "Shiggaion of David;" and (2) the determination of the identity of "Cush the Benjamite." "Shiggaion" is connected by some with the "Shigioneth" of Habakkuk 3:1, which is commonly explained to be a particular kind of tune or tunes. But the identity of the two words is uncertain, and the identity of their meaning, at an interval of nearly six centuries, is still more open to question. The meaning of "Shiggaion" has really to be _guessed _from the context; and the most proba

O LORD MY GOD, IN THEE DO I PUT MY TRUST,.... The psalmist expresses his interest in God as his covenant God, and his trust and confidence in him; and with these he sets out as the stay of his soul, and his bulwark against the fears of his enemies; and he does not say that he had trusted in God, or would for the future trust in him; but that he did trust in him, and continued to do so. And God is to be trusted in at all times; in times of affliction, temptation, and desertion; and these the psalmist premises to his petition, which follows, as an encouragement to him to hope for success, since God was his God, and none that ever trusted in him were confounded; SAVE ME FROM ALL THEM THAT PERSECUTE ME, AND DELIVER ME; persecution is no new thing to the people of God; David had his persecutors, and many of them; the Church, in Jeremiah's time, had hers; the saints, in the times of the apost...

Psalms 7 _ 1. Confidence and prayer (Psalms 7:1)_ 2. Unjust persecution (Psalms 7:3) 3. Arise Jehovah! (Psalms 7:6) 4. God's dealings in government (Psalms 7:11) 5. Thanksgiving (Psalms 7:17) Psalms 7:1. It has been suggested that over this Psalm should be written the sentence, “Shall not the judge of all the earth do right?” David appealed to God to judge His cause, that a rig

VII. A AND VII. B. Here two Pss. have been welded together. In Psalms 7:1; Psalms 7:12 a man hard bestead in spite of his innocence pleads his cause before God. In Psalms 7:6 Israel personified asks for justice at God's hands and begs Him to summon all nations to the great assize, that they may attest the Divine sentence which declares Israel innocent. A. PSALMS 7:1; PSALMS 7:12. The parenthesis in Psalms 7:4 is difficult. Read with slight change of MT and with support of

DO I. have I. PUT MY TRUST. flee for refuge. Hebrew. _hasa._ See App-69. PERSECUTE. pursue me. Refers probably to Saul....