Psalms 54:3 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³For strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah.

Psalms 54:3 —

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selah: — a pause or musical mark (meaning uncertain).

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 86:14
O God, the proud are risen against me, and the assemblies of violent men have sought after my soul; and have not set thee before them.
Psalms 36:1
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David the servant of the LORD. The transgression of the wicked saith within my heart, that there is no fear of God before his eyes.
Psalms 53:4
Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread: they have not called upon God.
John 16:3
And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me.
Psalms 59:3-5
For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul: the mighty are gathered against me; not for my transgression, nor for my sin, O LORD. …

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities Godlessness

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-3)

We may observe here, 1. The great distress that David was now in, which the title gives an account of. The Ziphim came of their own accord, and informed Saul where David was, with a promise to deliver him into his hand. One would have thought that when David had retired into the country he would not be pursued, into a desert country he would not be discovered, and into his own country he would not…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 3)

3. strangers--perhaps Ziphites. oppressors--literally, “terrible ones” (Is 13:11; 25:3). Such were Saul and his army. not set ... them--acted as atheists, without God’s fear (compare Psa 16:8).