7 For, from all adversity He delivered me, And on mine enemies hath mine eye looked!
God doth go before me, He causeth me to look on mine enemies.
And mine eye looketh on mine enemies, Of those rising up against me, The evil doers, do mine ears hear.
the Messenger who is redeeming me from all evil doth bless the youths, and my name is called upon them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and they increase into a multitude in the midst of the land.'
and lo, as thy soul hath been great this day in mine eyes, so is my soul great in the eyes of Jehovah, and He doth deliver me out of all distress.'
This poor `one' called, and Jehovah heard, And from all his distresses saved him.
Many `are' the evils of the righteous, Out of them all doth Jehovah deliver him.
The righteous rejoiceth that he hath seen vengeance, His steps he washeth in the blood of the wicked. And man saith: `Surely fruit `is' for the righteous: Surely there is a God judging in the earth!'
But with thine eyes thou lookest, And the reward of the wicked thou seest,
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Commentary on Psalms 54 Matthew Henry Commentary
Psalm 54
The key of this psalm hangs at the door, for the title tells us upon what occasion it was penned-when the inhabitants of Ziph, men of Judah (types of Judas the traitor), betrayed David to Saul, by informing him where he was and putting him in a way how to seize him. This they did twice (1 Sa. 23:19; 26:1), and it is upon record to their everlasting infamy. The psalm is sweet; the former part of it, perhaps, was meditated when he was in his distress and put into writing when the danger was over, with the addition of the last two verses, which express his thankfulness for the deliverance, which yet might be written in faith, even when he was in the midst of his fright. Here,
What time we are in distress we may comfortable sing this psalm.
To the chief musician on Neginoth, Maschil. A psalm of David, when the Ziphim came and said to Saul, Doth not David hide himself with us?
Psa 54:1-3
We may observe here,
Psa 54:4-7
We have here the lively actings of David's faith in his prayer, by which he was assured that the issue would be comfortable, though the attempt upon him was formidable.