Psalm 7

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A Shigayon of David, which he sang to Adonai concerning the words of Cush, a Benjaminite.

שגיון (shigayon) = A musical instrument? A mistake? “Confusion”?

1-2  O Adonai my God, in You do I take refuge. Save me from all my pursuers and deliver me, lest like a lion they tear my soul apart, rending it in pieces, with none to deliver.

3-5  O Adonai my God, if I have done this, if there is wrong in my hands, ⁴ if I have repaid my friend with evil or plundered my enemy without cause, ⁵ let the enemy justly pursue my soul and overtake it and let him trample my life to the ground and lay my glory in the dust. [Selah]

6-7  Arise, Adonai, in Your anger. Lift Yourself up against the fury of my enemies and awaken on my behalf the judgment You have decreed. ⁷ Let the assembly of the peoples be gathered about You. Over it return on high.

8-11  Adonai judges the peoples. Judge me, Adonai, according to my righteousness and according to the integrity that is in me. ⁹ Oh, let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end, and may You establish the righteous – You who test the hearts and kidneys, O righteous God! ¹⁰ My shield is with God, who saves the upright in heart. ¹¹ God is a righteous Judge, and a God who feels indignation every day.

דין (din) = “judge” (passing of a sentence)

שפט (shaphat) = “judge”(enforcement of a judgment)

כליות (ce’laiyot) = “kidneys”

12-16  If a man does not repent, [God?] will whet his sword; he has bent and readied his bow. ¹³ He has prepared for him his deadly weapons, making His arrows fiery shafts. ¹⁴ Behold, the wicked man (a) conceives evil and is (b) pregnant with mischief and (c) gives birth to lies. ¹⁵ He makes a pit, digging it out, and falls into the hole that he has made. ¹⁶ His mischief returns upon his own head, and on his own skull his violence descends.

17  I will give to Adonai the thanks due to His righteousness, and I will sing praise to the name of Adonai, the Most High.

REFERENCES:

Attribution

Habakkuk 3:1  A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet, according to Shigionoth.

Philippians 3:4-5  … If anyone else thinks he has reason for confidence in the flesh, I have more: circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; as to the Torah, a Pharisee.

Numbers 12:1  Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he had married, for he had married a Cushite woman.

Verses 6-7

Numbers 10:35  And whenever the ark set out, Moses said, “Arise, Adonai, and let Your enemies be scattered, and let those who hate You flee before You.”

Deuteronomy 32:40-41  “For I lift up My hand to heaven and swear, as I live forever, if I sharpen My flashing sword and My hand takes hold on judgment, I will take vengeance on My adversaries and will repay those who hate Me.”

Psalm 2:9  You shall break them with a rod of iron and dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.

Psalm 149:9  …to execute on them the judgment written! This is honor for all His godly ones. Praise Adonai!

Verses 8-11

Genesis 42:15  “By this you shall be tested: by the life of Pharaoh, you shall not go from this place unless your youngest brother comes here.”

Leviticus 3:4  And the two kidneys with the fat that is on them at the loins, and the long lobe of the liver that he shall remove with the kidneys.

2 Corinthians 10:5  We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Messiah.

Jeremiah 17:9 (KJV)  The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

Jeremiah 17:9 (ESV) The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?

Jeremiah 17:9 (CLT)  The heart is crooked above all things, and it is mortally ill. Who can know it?

Proverbs 16:4  Adonai has made everything for its purpose, even the wicked for the day of trouble.

Proverbs 22:14  The mouth of forbidden women is a deep pit; he with whom Adonai is indignant will fall into it.

Psalm 30:5  For His anger is but for a moment…

Exodus 23:22  “But if you carefully obey His voice and do all that I say, then I will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries.”