Psalm 5454PsalmsBook 2unfoldingWord® Simplified Text

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1. Save Me by Your Name

   (1 Samuel 23:7–29)

2. 1USTGod, please use your power to save me{ from my enemies}! If you do that, people will realize that I have not done anything wrong.BSBBSB: For 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!
3. 2USTGod, please listen to what I say as I pray to you.BSBBSB: Hear my prayer, O God; listen to the words of my mouth.
4. 3USTI am praying for your help because even my fellow Judeans are treacherously acting against me. These are violent men, and they want to kill me. They do not respect you. SelahBSBBSB: For strangers rise up against me, and ruthless men seek my life—men with no regard for God. Selah
5. 4USTBut God is helping me. The Lord is helping the people who are protecting me so that I stay alive.BSBBSB: Surely God is my helper; the Lord is the sustainer of my soul.
6. 5USTMy enemies want to do harmful things to me, but God will cause those things to happen to them instead. Because you faithfully do what you promise, destroy them{ so that they do not kill me}!BSBBSB: He will reward my enemies with evil. In Your faithfulness, destroy them.
7. 6USTI promise that{ when you rescue me,} I will publicly offer a sacrifice to honor you. I will praise you, Yahweh, for how good you are.BSBBSB: Freely I will sacrifice to You; I will praise Your name, O LORD, for it is good.
8. 7USTI will be able to do this because he rescues me from all my troubles and, as a result, I see that he has defeated my enemies.BSBBSB: For He has delivered me from every trouble, and my eyes have looked in triumph on my foes.

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