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PSALMS (1-24, 26)
[A hymn of David he cried to Yehowah regarding the words of Cush the Benjamite.]
PS7:1 O Yehowah my God, I have sought refuge in You. Save me from all those chasing after me. Deliver me,
PS7:2 lest they tear my soul to shreds like a lion,49
and then no deliverer could ever rescue me.
PS7:3 O Yehowah my God, if I have ever
done any of these – if there ever was anything distorted in my own hands –
PS7:4 if I ever acted deceitfully toward anyone at peace with me – or if I ever persecuted my enemy without cause –
PS7:5 then let an enemy chase after my soul50
and actually overtake it, that he may trample into the ground my life, and cause my glory to reside in dust. [Selah]49 Tear my soul to shreds like a lion: The “soul” [NEPHESH (breathe, wind, blow)] may be compare, as Paul does, to the physical
or fleshly being. [For details see notes in Nazarene Commentary 2000 on 1 Corinthians 15:40-51] The Hebrew NEPHESH occurs over 150 times in the Psalms. 50 My soul: Here “soul”
is paralleled with “life.”
PS7:6 Rise up, Yehowah, in your anger! Raise yourself up because of the arrogant outbursts of my enemies. Arouse the justice You commanded for me.
PS7:7 Return from the heights when the assembly of peoples gather around You.
PS7:8 Yehowah will judge the peoples. Be fair with me, O Yehowah, in harmony with my own righteousness, and according to my own integrity.
PS7:9 I beg You, cause the harm of the lawless to come to an end, and established the law-abiding. For the just God is a tester of motives51
and deepest emotions.52
51 Tester of motives: Or, reads, hearts, minds.
PS7:10 My shield is held by God who is prepared to save the upright in heart.
PS7:11 A God who vindicates the law-abiding, and yet also a God who becomes righteously indignant every day.
PS7:12 If anyone refuses to turn around,53
He will sharpen His sword. He will string His bow and be ready.
52 Deepest emotions: Or, emotions, kidneys. [u-KHELA-YOHTH’] Compare Hebrews 4:12.
PS7:13 He has prepared for such
persons His deadly weapons, making His arrows a flame.
PS7:14 Look, there is the person giving birth to harmfulness and conceiving mischief and bringing forth falsehood.
PS7:15 He has dug out a pit only to fall into it himself.
PS7:16 His harmfulness will return upon his own head, and his violence will come down on his own skull.
PS7:17 I will praise Yehowah according to His own justice, and will exult in song the Name of Yehowah Most High.
53 Turn around: Or, repent, convert.
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