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Psalms 7

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Part of Book I📖 Psalms introduction

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1I come to you for protection, O Lord my God. Save me from my persecutors—rescue me! ✦ 2If you don’t, they will maul me like a lion, tearing me to pieces with no one to rescue me. ✦ 3O Lord my God, if I have done wrong or am guilty of injustice, ✦ 4if I have betrayed a friend or plundered my enemy without cause, ✦ 5then let my enemies capture me. Let them trample me into the ground and drag my honor in the dust. Interlude ✦ 6Arise, O Lord, in anger! Stand up against the fury of my enemies! Wake up, my God, and bring justice! ✦ 7Gather the nations before you. Rule over them from on high. ✦ 8The Lord judges the nations. Declare me righteous, O Lord, for I am innocent, O Most High! ✦ 9End the evil of those who are wicked, and defend the righteous. For you look deep within the mind and heart, O righteous God. ✦ 10God is my shield, saving those whose hearts are true and right. ✦ 11God is an honest judge. He is angry with the wicked every day. ✦ 12If a person does not repent, God will sharpen his sword; he will bend and string his bow. ✦ 13He will prepare his deadly weapons and shoot his flaming arrows. ✦ 14The wicked conceive evil; they are pregnant with trouble and give birth to lies. ✦ 15They dig a deep pit to trap others, then fall into it themselves. ✦ 16The trouble they make for others backfires on them. The violence they plan falls on their own heads. ✦ 17I will thank the Lord because he is just; I 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.

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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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