Psalms 25:20

25:20 Protect me ¹  and deliver me!

Please do not let me be humiliated,

for I have taken shelter in you!

Psalms 144:7

144:7 Reach down ²  from above!

Grab me and rescue me from the surging water, ³ 

from the power of foreigners, ⁴ 

Psalms 144:11

144:11 Grab me and rescue me from the power of foreigners, ⁵ 

who speak lies,

and make false promises. ⁶ 

Psalms 7:1

Psalm 7 ⁷ 

A musical composition ⁸  by David, which he sang to the Lord concerning ⁹  a Benjaminite named Cush. ¹⁰ 

7:1 O Lord my God, in you I have taken shelter. ¹¹ 

Deliver me from all who chase me! Rescue me!

[25:20]  ¹ tn Or “my life.”

[144:7]  ² tn Heb “stretch out your hands.”

[144:7]  ³ tn Heb “mighty waters.” The waters of the sea symbolize the psalmist’s powerful foreign enemies, as well as the realm of death they represent (see the next line and Ps 18:16-17).

[144:7]  ⁴ tn Heb “from the hand of the sons of foreignness.”

[144:11]  ³ tn Heb “from the hand of the sons of foreignness.”

[144:11]  ⁴ tn Heb “who [with] their mouth speak falsehood, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.” See v. 8 where the same expression occurs.

[7:1]  ⁴ sn Psalm 7. The psalmist asks the Lord to intervene and deliver him from his enemies. He protests his innocence and declares his confidence in God’s justice.

[7:1]  ⁵ tn The precise meaning of the Hebrew term שִׁגָּיוֹן (shiggayon; translated here “musical composition”) is uncertain. Some derive the noun from the verbal root שָׁגָה (shagah, “swerve, reel”) and understand it as referring to a “wild, passionate song, with rapid changes of rhythm” (see BDB 993 s.v. שִׁגָּיוֹן). But this proposal is purely speculative. The only other appearance of the noun is in Hab 3:1, where it occurs in the plural.

[7:1]  ⁶ tn Or “on account of.”

[7:1]  ⁷ sn Apparently this individual named Cush was one of David’s enemies.

[7:1]  ⁸ tn The Hebrew perfect verbal form probably refers here to a completed action with continuing results.