Psalm 7:1-2

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The Lord Implored to Defend the Psalmist against the Wicked.

An ^[a]Ode of David, [perhaps in a wild, irregular, enthusiastic strain,] which he sang to the Lord concerning the words of Cush, a Benjamite.

7 O Lord my God, in You I take refuge;
Save me and rescue me from all those who pursue me,
²
So that my enemy will not tear me like a lion,
Dragging me away while there is no one to rescue [me].

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Footnotes

Psalm 7:1 Meaning uncertain, perhaps a wild, enthusiastic song. The ancient rabbis connected the Hebrew word to another word of similar spelling meaning “inadvertent sin” or “error,” and maintained that God called David to account for what he said in 6:10. He had in essence cursed his enemies, and God supposedly pointed out that Saul was David’s enemy, so David thereby had cursed Saul in violation of Ex 22:28. David pleaded with God to count this a sin of error on his part, and thereafter composed Ps 7. The rabbis also maintained that Cush was a reference to Saul (cf 1 Sam 9:1).