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O LORD my God, in thee do I put my trust: save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me:
Psalms 7:1 · King James Version
Parallel translations
  • WEB 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,
  • BSB A Shiggaion of David, which he sang to the LORD concerning the words of Cush, a Benjamite. O LORD my God, I take refuge in You; save me and deliver me from all my pursuers,
  • NKJV O Lord my God, in You I put my trust; Save me from all those who persecute me; And deliver me,
  • NASB O Lord my God, in You I have taken refuge; Save me from all those who pursue me, and rescue me,
  • NLT I come to you for protection, O Lord my God. Save me from my persecutors—rescue me!

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Quick answer

David takes refuge in the Lord his God and asks to be saved from all who pursue him. In danger, God Himself is the believer's hiding place.

Overview

Facing slander and pursuit, David's first and settled response is to shelter in God rather than to retaliate. 'I take refuge in you' is the heartbeat of the whole psalm. This trust models the believer's flight to God in every threat, finding in Christ a sure and unfailing refuge.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 29

  • Ps 31:15My times are in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me.
  • Hab 3:1A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet upon Shigionoth.
  • 1 Pet 4:19Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator.
  • Ps 35:1–3Plead my cause, O LORD, with them that strive with me: fight against them that fight against me.
  • Ps 18:2The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.
  • Jer 20:11But the LORD is with me as a mighty terrible one: therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail: they shall be greatly ashamed; for they shall not prosper: their everlasting confusion shall never be forgotten.
  • 2 Sam 16:1–23And when David was a little past the top of the hill, behold, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth met him, with a couple of asses saddled, and upon them two hundred loaves of bread, and an hundred bunches of raisins, and an hundred of summer fruits, and a bottle of wine.
  • Ps 43:4Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto God my exceeding joy: yea, upon the harp will I praise thee, O God my God.
  • Ps 17:7–9Shew thy marvellous lovingkindness, O thou that savest by thy right hand them which put their trust in thee from those that rise up against them.
  • Ps 26:1Judge me, O LORD; for I have walked in mine integrity: I have trusted also in the LORD; therefore I shall not slide.
  • Jer 31:18I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art the LORD my God.
  • Ps 30:2O LORD my God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast healed me.
  • Jer 15:15O LORD, thou knowest: remember me, and visit me, and revenge me of my persecutors; take me not away in thy longsuffering: know that for thy sake I have suffered rebuke.
  • Zech 14:5And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and the LORD my God shall come, and all the saints with thee.
  • Dan 9:4And I prayed unto the LORD my God, and made my confession, and said, O Lord, the great and dreadful God, keeping the covenant and mercy to them that love him, and to them that keep his commandments;
  • Ps 13:5But I have trusted in thy mercy; my heart shall rejoice in thy salvation.
  • Ps 30:12To the end that my glory may sing praise to thee, and not be silent. O LORD my God, I will give thanks unto thee for ever.
  • Isa 50:10Who is among you that feareth the LORD, that obeyeth the voice of his servant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light? let him trust in the name of the LORD, and stay upon his God.
  • Ps 11:1In the LORD put I my trust: how say ye to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain?
  • Ps 18:28For thou wilt light my candle: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness.
  • Ps 13:3Consider and hear me, O LORD my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;
  • Ps 146:3–6Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.
  • Ps 32:10Many sorrows shall be to the wicked: but he that trusteth in the LORD, mercy shall compass him about.
  • Ps 89:26He shall cry unto me, Thou art my father, my God, and the rock of my salvation.
  • Dan 9:19–20O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive; O Lord, hearken and do; defer not, for thine own sake, O my God: for thy city and thy people are called by thy name.
  • Ps 3:7Arise, O LORD; save me, O my God: for thou hast smitten all mine enemies upon the cheek bone; thou hast broken the teeth of the ungodly.
  • Ps 25:2O my God, I trust in thee: let me not be ashamed, let not mine enemies triumph over me.
  • 1 Pet 1:21Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.
  • Josh 14:8Nevertheless my brethren that went up with me made the heart of the people melt: but I wholly followed the LORD my God.

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Christ at the center

The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.

How Psalms 7:1 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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