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For the music director. With stringed instruments. A psalm (maskil) of David, concerning the time when the Ziphites came to Saul and told him, “David is hiding among us.”
1 God, because of your very nature,* please save me! Vindicate me by your power!
2 God, please hear my prayer; listen to what I'm saying.
3 For strangers are coming to attack me—violent men who don't care about God are trying to kill me. Selah.
4 But God helps me; the Lord saves my life!
5 The evil my enemies have done will come back upon them. I depend on you to destroy them.
6 I will happily offer a sacrifice to you; I will praise the kind of person you are,† Lord, for you are good.
7 For he has saved me from all my troubles; and I have seen those who hated me defeated.‡
* 54:1 Literally, “name.” † 54:6 Literally, “your name.” ‡ 54:7 “Defeated”: implied. Literally, “with my eye I have looked at those who hate me.”