Psalms 7:1-17 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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VII. A and VII. B. Here two Pss. have been welded together. In Psalms 7:1-5; Psalms 7:12-17 a man hard bestead in spite of his innocence pleads his cause before God. In Psalms 7:6-11 Israel personified asks for justice at God's hands and begs Him to summon all nations to the great assize, that they may attest the Divine sentence which declares Israel innocent.

A. Psalms 7:1-5; Psalms 7:12-17. The parenthesis in Psalms 7:4 is difficult. Read with slight change of MT and with support of Syr. and Targ., And oppressed him that without cause was mine enemy. In this way we recover sense and grammar, nor do we lose anything by removing the love of enemies from the OT and confining it to its proper place in the NT. In Psalms 7:12 follow mg. The enemy is the subject in Psalms 7:12-15. In Psalms 7:13 translate, It is for himself that he has (unwittingly) prepared the instruments of death.

B. Psalms 7:6-11. Read in Psalms 7:7 b over them be enthroned on high.-'

Psalms 7:9 b may be a reminiscence of Jeremiah 11:20.

Psalms 7:10 f. is hopelessly corrupt. Read, perhaps, My shield over me is God.

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Psalms 7:1-17

1 O LORD my God, in thee do I put my trust: save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me:

2 Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.

3 O LORD my God, if I have done this; if there be iniquity in my hands;

4 If I have rewarded evil unto him that was at peace with me; (yea, I have delivered him that without cause is mine enemy:)

5 Let 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.

6 Arise, 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.

7 So shall the congregation of the people compass thee about: for their sakes therefore return thou on high.

8 The LORD shall judge the people: judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness, and according to mine integrity that is in me.

9 Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just: for the righteous God trieth the hearts and reins.

10 My defence is of God, which saveth the upright in heart.

11 God judgetha the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every day.

12 If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready.

13 He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors.

14 Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.

15 He made a pit,b and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made.

16 His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate.

17 I will praise the LORD according to his righteousness: and will sing praise to the name of the LORD most high.