Oratio: Give Ear to the Words of My Mouth

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For today’s Oratio, Rev. Jonathan Fisk meditates on Psalm 54.

The Lord Upholds My Life

To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments. A Maskil[a] of David, when the Ziphites went and told Saul, “Is not David hiding among us?”

54 O God, save me by your name,
and vindicate me by your might.
2 O God, hear my prayer;
give ear to the words of my mouth.

3 For strangers[b] have risen against me;
ruthless men seek my life;
they do not set God before themselves. Selah

4 Behold, God is my helper;
the Lord is the upholder of my life.
5 He will return the evil to my enemies;
in your faithfulness put an end to them.

6 With a freewill offering I will sacrifice to you;
I will give thanks to your name, O Lord, for it is good.
7 For he has delivered me from every trouble,
and my eye has looked in triumph on my enemies.

Footnotes:

Psalm 54:1 Probably a musical or liturgical term

Psalm 54:3 Some Hebrew manuscripts and Targum insolent men (compare Psalm 86:14)

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