Psalm 54
Save Me by Your Name
(1 Samuel 23:7–29)
For the choirmaster. With stringed instruments. A Maskil 1 of David. When the Ziphites went to Saul and said, “Is David not hiding among us?”
¹ Save me, O God, by Your name, and vindicate me by Your might!
² Hear my prayer, O God; listen to the words of my mouth.
³ For strangers rise up against me, and ruthless men seek my life— men with no regard for God. Selah
⁴ Surely God is my helper; the Lord is the sustainer of my soul.
⁵ He will reward my enemies with evil. In Your faithfulness, destroy them.
⁶ Freely I will sacrifice to You; I will praise Your name, O LORD, for it is good.
⁷ For He has delivered me from every trouble, and my eyes have looked in triumph on my foes.
54:0 Maskil is probably a musical or liturgical term; used for Psalms 32, 42, 44–45, 52–55, 74, 78, 88–89, and 142. ↩︎