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Psalms 7

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1O Lord my God, in You I put my trust; Save me from all those who persecute me; And deliver me, ✦ 2Lest they tear me like a lion, Rending me in pieces, while there is none to deliver. ✦ 3O Lord my God, if I have done this: If there is iniquity in my hands, ✦ 4If I have repaid evil to him who was at peace with me, Or have plundered my enemy without cause, ✦ 5Let the enemy pursue me and overtake me; Yes, let him trample my life to the earth, And lay my honor in the dust. Selah ✦ 6Arise, O Lord, in Your anger; Lift Yourself up because of the rage of my enemies; Rise up for me to the judgment You have commanded! ✦ 7So the congregation of the peoples shall surround You; For their sakes, therefore, return on high. ✦ 8The Lord shall judge the peoples; Judge me, O Lord, according to my righteousness, And according to my integrity within me. ✦ 9Oh, let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end, But establish the just; For the righteous God tests the hearts and minds. ✦ 10My defense is of God, Who saves the upright in heart. ✦ 11God is a just judge, And God is angry with the wicked every day. ✦ 12If he does not turn back, He will sharpen His sword; He bends His bow and makes it ready. ✦ 13He also prepares for Himself instruments of death; He makes His arrows into fiery shafts. ✦ 14Behold, the wicked brings forth iniquity; Yes, he conceives trouble and brings forth falsehood. ✦ 15He made a pit and dug it out, And has fallen into the ditch which he made. ✦ 16His trouble shall return upon his own head, And his violent dealing shall come down on his own crown. ✦ 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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Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

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

    Interlinear, lexicon, and study tools across the chapter.

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