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June 2, 1991
What is our response when we are unjustly wronged? While writing Psalm 7, David was being wrongfully persecuted—yet despite the difficulties he faced, he was able to end his psalm in praise to the Lord. Alistair Begg examines David’s responses to persecution, encouraging us that because of God’s righteousness, justice, and love, we can trust Him even in our darkest days. Like David’s, our cries of despair can become songs of praise.
1O Lord my God, in you do I mtake refuge;
nsave me from all my pursuers and deliver me,
2lest like oa lion they tear my soul apart,
rending it in pieces, with pnone to deliver.
3O Lord my God, qif I have done this,
if there is rwrong in my hands,
4if I have repaid smy friend2 with evil
or tplundered my enemy without cause,
5let the enemy pursue my soul and overtake it,
and let him utrample my life to the ground
and lay my glory in the dust. Selah
6vArise, O Lord, in your anger;
wlift yourself up against the fury of my enemies;
xawake for me; you have appointed a judgment.
7Let the assembly of the peoples be gathered about you;
over it return on high.
8The Lord yjudges the peoples;
zjudge me, O Lord, according to my righteousness
and according to the integrity that is in me.
9Oh, let the evil of the wicked come to an end,
and may you establish the righteous—
you who atest bthe minds and hearts,3
O righteous God!
10My shield is cwith God,
who saves dthe upright in heart.
11God is ea righteous judge,
and a God who feels findignation every day.
12If a man4 does not repent, God5 will gwhet his sword;
he has hbent and ireadied his bow;
13he has prepared for him his deadly weapons,
making his jarrows kfiery shafts.
14Behold, the wicked man lconceives evil
and is lpregnant with mischief
and gives birth to lies.
15He makes ma pit, digging it out,
and falls into the hole that he has made.
16His nmischief returns upon his own head,
and on his own skull his violence descends.
17I will give to the Lord the thanks due to his righteousness,
and I will osing praise to the name of the Lord, the Most High.
Copyright © 2024, Alistair Begg. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
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