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Psalms 54

World English Bible · public domain · whole chapter

Psalms 53 Psalms 55

¹Save me, God, by your name.

²Hear my prayer, God.

³For strangers have risen up against me.

⁴Behold, God is my helper.

⁵He will repay the evil to my enemies.

⁶With a free will offering, I will sacrifice to you.

⁷For he has delivered me out of all trouble.

¹Save me, God, by your name.

²Hear my prayer, God.

³For strangers have risen up against me.

⁴Behold, God is my helper.

⁵He will repay the evil to my enemies.

⁶With a free will offering, I will sacrifice to you.

⁷For he has delivered me out of all trouble.

¹Save me, God, by your name.

²Hear my prayer, God.

³For strangers have risen up against me.

⁴Behold, God is my helper.

⁵He will repay the evil to my enemies.

⁶With a free will offering, I will sacrifice to you.

⁷For he has delivered me out of all trouble.

In context

Psalms 54 is read as a whole chapter — not a single verse pulled free of what surrounds it.

Immediately before

²God looks down from heaven on the children of men,

³Every one of them has gone back.

⁴Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge,

⁵There they were in great fear, where no fear was,

⁶Oh that the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion!

Immediately after

¹Listen to my prayer, God.

²Attend to me, and answer me.

³because of the voice of the enemy,

⁴My heart is severely pained within me.

⁵Fearfulness and trembling have come on me.

How this book begins

¹Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked,

²but his delight is in Yahweh’s1:2 “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations. law.

³He will be like a tree planted by the streams of water,

⁴The wicked are not so,

⁵Therefore the wicked shall not stand in the judgment,

⁶For Yahweh knows the way of the righteous,