Mazmur 140:7

140:7 O sovereign Lord, my strong deliverer, ¹ 

you shield ²  my head in the day of battle.

Mazmur 140:1

Psalm 140 ³ 

For the music director; a psalm of David.

140:1 O Lord, rescue me from wicked men! ⁴ 

Protect me from violent men, ⁵ 

1 Samuel 17:45-46

17:45 But David replied to the Philistine, “You are coming against me with sword and spear and javelin. But I am coming against you in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel’s armies, whom you have defied! 17:46 This very day the Lord will deliver you into my hand! I will strike you down and cut off your head. This day I will give the corpses of the Philistine army to the birds of the sky and the wild animals of the land. Then all the land will realize that Israel has a God

1 Samuel 17:2

17:2 Saul and the Israelite army ⁶  assembled and camped in the valley of Elah, where they arranged their battle lines to fight against ⁷  the Philistines.

1 Samuel 21:1

21:1 (21:2) David went to Ahimelech the priest in Nob. Ahimelech was shaking with fear when he met ⁸  David, and said to him, “Why are you by yourself with no one accompanying you?”

1 Samuel 21:1

21:1 (21:2) David went to Ahimelech the priest in Nob. Ahimelech was shaking with fear when he met ⁹  David, and said to him, “Why are you by yourself with no one accompanying you?”

[140:7]  ¹ tn Heb “the strength of my deliverance.”

[140:7]  ² tn Heb “cover.”

[140:1]  ³ sn Psalm 140. The psalmist asks God to deliver him from his deadly enemies, calls judgment down upon them, and affirms his confidence in God’s justice.

[140:1]  ⁴ tn Heb “from a wicked man.” The Hebrew uses the singular in a representative or collective sense (note the plural verbs in v. 2).

[140:1]  ⁵ tn Heb “a man of violent acts.” The Hebrew uses the singular in a representative or collective sense (note the plural verbs in v. 2).

[17:2]  ⁶ tn Heb “the men of Israel” (so KJV, NASB); NAB, NIV, NRSV “the Israelites.”

[17:2]  ⁷ tn Heb “to meet.”

[21:1]  ⁸ tn Heb “trembled to meet.”

[21:1]  ⁹ tn Heb “trembled to meet.”