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Psalms 7

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1O LORD my God, in thee do I put my trust: save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me: ✦ 2Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver. ✦ 3O LORD my God, if I have done this; if there be iniquity in my hands; ✦ 4If I have rewarded evil unto him that was at peace with me; (yea, I have delivered him that without cause is mine enemy:) ✦ 5Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it; yea, let him tread down my life upon the earth, and lay mine honour in the dust. Selah. ✦ 6Arise, O LORD, in thine anger, lift up thyself because of the rage of mine enemies: and awake for me to the judgment that thou hast commanded. ✦ 7So shall the congregation of the people compass thee about: for their sakes therefore return thou on high. ✦ 8The LORD shall judge the people: judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness, and according to mine integrity that is in me. ✦ 9Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just: for the righteous God trieth the hearts and reins. ✦ 10My defence is of God, which saveth the upright in heart. ✦ 11God judgeth the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every day. ✦ 12If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready. ✦ 13He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors. ✦ 14Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood. ✦ 15He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made. ✦ 16His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate. ✦ 17I will praise the LORD according to his righteousness: and will 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.

Commentaries & study tools

  • VideoBibleProject — Psalms videosBibleProject · Lay · Free · evangelical

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

  • VideoWatch teaching on Psalms 7YouTube · Lay · Free

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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

    Interlinear, lexicon, and study tools across the chapter.

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