Sharper Iron — Spring into the Psalms – Psalm 7: Refuge from Prowling Lions

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Although David’s enemies seek his harm, he cries out to the LORD as his refuge. The LORD is the Righteous One who arises to judge all people. While He brings the wicked to their end, He establishes the righteous through faith in Him. Those who refuse to repent encounter the LORD as the Divine Warrior who allows their wickedness to fall upon them. For these just judgments, David and all Christians give thanks to the LORD.

Rev. Dustin Beck, pastor at Holy Cross Lutheran Church in Warda, TX, joins host Rev. Timothy Appel to study Psalm 7.

To learn more about Holy Cross, visit holycrosswarda.com.

Join Sharper Iron this spring to study selected Psalms. In the Psalter, God speaks His Word to us and teaches us how to speak back to Him in prayer. Even in the great variety of the Psalms, each one points us to our Savior, Jesus Christ.

Sharper Iron, hosted by Rev. Timothy Appel, looks at the text of Holy Scripture both in its broad context and its narrow detail, all for the sake of proclaiming Christ crucified and risen for sinners. Two pastors engage with God’s Word to sharpen not only their own faith and knowledge, but the faith and knowledge of all who listen. Submit comments or questions to: listener@kfuo.org

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Psalm 7

In You Do I Take Refuge

A Shiggaion of David, which he sang to the LORD concerning the words of Cush, a Benjaminite.

[1] O LORD my God, in you do I take refuge;

save me from all my pursuers and deliver me,

[2] lest like a lion they tear my soul apart,

rending it in pieces, with none to deliver.

[3] O LORD 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 pursue my soul and overtake it,

and let him trample my life to the ground

and lay my glory in the dust. Selah

[6] Arise, O LORD, in your anger;

lift yourself up against the fury of my enemies;

awake for me; you have appointed a judgment.

[7] Let the assembly of the peoples be gathered about you;

over it return on high.

[8] The LORD judges the peoples;

judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness

and according to the integrity that is in me.

[9] Oh, let the evil of the wicked come to an end,

and may you establish the righteous—

you who test the minds and hearts,

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.

[12] 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 conceives evil

and is pregnant with mischief

and 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 the LORD the thanks due to his righteousness,

and I will sing praise to the name of the LORD, the Most High.

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