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Psalms 7

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1O Lord my God, in You I have taken refuge; Save me from all those who pursue me, and rescue me, ✦ 2Or he will tear my soul like a lion, Dragging me away, while there is no one to rescue me. ✦ 3¶O Lord my God, if I have done this, If there is injustice in my hands, ✦ 4If I have done evil to my friend, Or have plundered my enemy for no reason, ✦ 5Let the enemy pursue my soul and overtake it; And let him trample my life to the ground And lay my glory in the dust. Selah ✦ 6¶Arise, Lord, in Your anger; Raise Yourself against the rage of my enemies, And stir Yourself for me; You have ordered judgment. ✦ 7Let the assembly of the peoples encompass You, And return on high over it. ✦ 8The Lord judges the peoples; Vindicate me, Lord, according to my righteousness and my integrity that is in me. ✦ 9Please let the evil of the wicked come to an end, but establish the righteous; For the righteous God puts hearts and minds to the test. ✦ 10My shield is with God, Who saves the upright in heart. ✦ 11God is a righteous judge, And a God who shows indignation every day. ✦ 12¶If one does not repent, He will sharpen His sword; He has bent His bow and taken aim. ✦ 13He has also prepared deadly weapons for Himself; He makes His arrows fiery shafts. ✦ 14Behold, an evil person is pregnant with injustice, And he conceives harm and gives birth to lies. ✦ 15He has dug a pit and hollowed it out, And has fallen into the hole which he made. ✦ 16His harm will return on his own head, And his violence will descend on the top of his own head. ✦ 17¶I will give thanks to 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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