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Psalms 7

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1A 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, ✦ 2or they will shred my soul like a lion and tear me to pieces with no one to rescue me. ✦ 3O LORD my God, if I have done this, if injustice is on my hands, ✦ 4if I have rewarded my ally with evil, if I have plundered my foe without cause, ✦ 5then may my enemy pursue me and overtake me; may he trample me to the ground and leave my honor in the dust. Selah ✦ 6Arise, O LORD, in Your anger; rise up against the fury of my enemies. Awake, my God, and ordain judgment. ✦ 7Let the assembled peoples gather around You; take Your seat over them on high. ✦ 8The LORD judges the peoples; vindicate me, O LORD, according to my righteousness and integrity. ✦ 9Put an end to the evil of the wicked, but establish the righteous, O righteous God who searches hearts and minds. ✦ 10My shield is with God, who saves the upright in heart. ✦ 11God is a righteous judge and a God who feels indignation each day. ✦ 12If one does not repent, God will sharpen His sword; He has bent and strung His bow. ✦ 13He has prepared His deadly weapons; He ordains His arrows with fire. ✦ 14Behold, the wicked man travails with evil; he conceives trouble and births falsehood. ✦ 15He has dug a hole and hollowed it out; he has fallen into a pit of his own making. ✦ 16His trouble recoils on himself, and his violence falls on his own head. ✦ 17I will thank the LORD for His righteousness and sing praise to the name of the LORD Most High. ✦

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Where this chapter connects

Ps 35 ·71 Sam 24 ·61 Sam 26 ·5Ps 18 ·5Ps 3 ·4Ps 17 ·4Ps 9 ·4Hab 3 ·4

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 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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  • ★ Start hereAudioThrough the WordThrough the Word · ~10 min/chapter · Free · evangelical

    A clear ~10-minute audio teaching for every one of the Bible's 1,189 chapters — the most systematic free way to study chapter by chapter.

  • ★ Start hereCommentaryPsalms (Tyndale OT Commentaries)Derek Kidner · Paid · evangelical

    Concise, theologically rich, and wonderfully accessible — the best place to start on the Psalms.

Pastoral

  • SermonChuck Smith — C2000 SeriesChuck Smith · Free · evangelical

    Free verse-by-verse audio through the entire Bible from the founder of Calvary Chapel.

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  • VideoBibleProject — Psalms videosBibleProject · Lay · Free · evangelical

    Free animated overview and word-study videos for this book.

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  • CommentaryEnduring Word — Psalms 7David Guzik · Lay · Free · evangelical

    Readable, verse-by-verse exposition of the whole chapter.

  • CommentaryMatthew Henry on PsalmsMatthew Henry · Pastoral · Free · evangelical

    The beloved Puritan exposition of this whole book — warm, devotional, and verse by verse (free, CCEL).

  • ReferenceBlue Letter Bible — Psalms 7Blue Letter Bible · Seminary · Free

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