O LORD my God, in thee do I put my trust: save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me:
Psalm 7 was probably written by David and belongs to the Psalms, which are inspired songs given by God to His children for study and singing. It is included in Psalms 1-11, which offer help through every kind of human experience, including discouragement, trial, grief, and danger from sin. Those Psalms point to God as able and willing to save, and Psalm 7 begins with a sense of need and belongs to the pattern of Psalms that end in triumph and confidence in God.
The verse expresses trust in God as the one able and willing to save and deliver the speaker from all persecutors and enemies. Its wording is distorted in a version addressed to Mary that replaces trust in God with hope in the Virgin and asks her to deliver the speaker from enemies. Together with verse 2 it proves the soul is not immortal, because the soul needing God to save and deliver it from being torn like prey torn by a lion means it can be cut off, die, and go into the grave.
Trusting God for salvation from all persecutors brings real deliverance when sin is confessed to God and to those wronged. Such confession leaves a person as free as if he had not sinned, with no condemnation and no dominion of sin, because Christ as Master gives liberty, life, and peace. In this way liberty to captives and escape like a bird from the fowler's broken snare become an actual experience.
Psalm 7 was probably written by David and belongs to the Psalms, which are inspired songs given by God to His children for study and singing. It is included in Psalms 1-11, which offer help through every kind of human experience, including discouragement, trial, grief, and danger from sin. Those Psalms point to God as able and willing to save, and Psalm 7 begins with a sense of need and belongs to the pattern of Psalms that end in triumph and confidence in God.
The verse expresses trust in God as the one able and willing to save and deliver the speaker from all persecutors and enemies. Its wording is distorted in a version addressed to Mary that replaces trust in God with hope in the Virgin and asks her to deliver the speaker from enemies. Together with verse 2 it proves the soul is not immortal, because the soul needing God to save and deliver it from being torn like prey torn by a lion means it can be cut off, die, and go into the grave.
Trusting God for salvation from all persecutors brings real deliverance when sin is confessed to God and to those wronged. Such confession leaves a person as free as if he had not sinned, with no condemnation and no dominion of sin, because Christ as Master gives liberty, life, and peace. In this way liberty to captives and escape like a bird from the fowler's broken snare become an actual experience.