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Psalm 7

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A Shiggaion of David, which he sang to the LORD concerning the words of Cush, a Benjaminite.

1 O LORD my God, in you do I take refuge;
   save me from all my pursuers and deliver me,
2 lest like a lion they tear my soul apart,
   rending it in pieces, with none to deliver.

3 O LORD my God, if I have done this,
   if there is wrong in my hands,
4 if I have repaid my friend with evil
   or plundered my enemy without cause,
5 let 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, O LORD, in your anger;
   lift yourself up against the fury of my enemies;
   awake for me; you have appointed a judgment.
7 Let the assembly of the peoples be gathered about you;
   over it return on high.

8 The LORD judges the peoples;
   judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness
   and according to the integrity that is in me.
9 Oh, let the evil of the wicked come to an end,
   and may you establish the righteous—
you who test the minds and hearts,
   O righteous God!
10 My shield is with God,
   who saves the upright in heart.
11 God is a righteous judge,
   and a God who feels indignation every day.

12 If a man does not repent, God will whet his sword;
   he has bent and readied his bow;
13 he has prepared for him his deadly weapons,
   making his arrows fiery shafts.
14 Behold, the wicked man conceives evil
   and is pregnant with mischief
   and gives birth to lies.
15 He makes a pit, digging it out,
   and falls into the hole that he has made.
16 His mischief returns upon his own head,
   and on his own skull his violence descends.

17 I will give to the LORD the thanks due to his righteousness,
   and I will sing praise to the name of the LORD, the Most High.

Scripture taken from the ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

Psalm Devotional
Jesus: Just and Justifier

Psalm 7 is about justice. David has been wrongly accused and seeks the one court where true justice can be found.

The psalm commences with a desperate cry for help. David is under attack from fierce enemies who are metaphorically depicted as roaring lions. The title of this psalm indicates that David’s historical enemy was Cush, a Benjamite. While we are uncertain about the exact identity of Cush, we do know that David had many enemies in the tribe of Benjamin, including Saul, Shimei (2 Sam.16:5), and Sheba (20:1). In the face of this fierce attack, David turns to God for refuge, rescue, and deliverance.

In these verses David reveals the nature of the attack against him. He is experiencing the politics of personal destruction. The charges against him include theft (“robbed my foe”) and covenant breaking (“done evil to him who is at peace with me”). However, what is most painful for David is that he is falsely accused.

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