Psalm 54

 

For the director of music.  With stringed instruments.  A maskil[a] of David.  When the Ziphites had gone to Saul and said, “Is not David hiding among us?”

 

 

1                    Save me, O God, by your name; vindicate me by your might.

 

2                    Hear my prayer, O God; listen to the words of my mouth.

 

3                    Strangers are attacking me; ruthless men seek my life—men without regard for God.

Selah

 

4                    Surely God is my help; the LORD is the one who sustains me.

 

5                    Let evil recoil on those who slander me; in your faithfulness destroy them.

 

6                    I will sacrifice a freewill offering to you; I will praise your name, O LORD, for it is good.

 

7                    For He has delivered me from all my troubles, and my eyes have looked in triumph on my foes.