Psalm 54:3
“For strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah.”
KJV
Read in Psalm 54Meaning
Hostile people have risen against the speaker and seek his life without setting God before them; the target is violent conduct, not foreign identity.
Violent opponents who disregard God
Psalm 54 is a compact prayer for rescue, traditionally linked by its superscription to the Ziphites informing Saul about David. The movement goes from appeal and danger to confidence that God sustains life, then to judgment entrusted to God and grateful worship after deliverance.
Read carefully
Hostile people have risen against the speaker and seek his life without setting God before them; the target is violent conduct, not foreign identity.
Reflection
Hostile people have risen against the speaker and seek his life without setting God before them; the target is violent conduct, not foreign identity.