Holman Christian Standard Bible | Berean Study Bible |
1For the choir director: with stringed instruments. A Davidic Maskil. When the Ziphites went and said to Saul, "Is David not hiding among us?" God, save me by Your name, and vindicate me by Your might! | 1For the choirmaster. With stringed instruments. A Maskil of David. When the Ziphites went to Saul and said, “Is David not hiding among us?” Save me, O God, by Your name, and vindicate me by Your might! |
2God, hear my prayer; listen to the words of my mouth. | 2Hear my prayer, O God; listen to the words of my mouth. |
3For strangers rise up against me, and violent men seek my life. They have no regard for God. Selah | 3For strangers rise up against me, and ruthless men seek my life—men with no regard for God. Selah |
4God is my helper; the Lord is the sustainer of my life. | 4Surely God is my helper; the Lord is the sustainer of my soul. |
5He will repay my adversaries for their evil. Because of Your faithfulness, annihilate them. | 5He will reward my enemies with evil. In Your faithfulness, destroy them. |
6I will sacrifice a freewill offering to You. I will praise Your name, Yahweh, because it is good. | 6Freely I will sacrifice to You; I will praise Your name, O LORD, for it is good. |
7For He has delivered me from every trouble, and my eye has looked down on my enemies. | 7For He has delivered me from every trouble, and my eyes have stared down my foes. |
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