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**do I** = have I.
**put my trust** = flee for refuge. Hebrew. *hasa.* See App-69 .
**persecute** = pursue me. Refers probably to Saul.

**he:** i.e. Cush.
**tear.** Hebrew. *taraph.* Refers to *living* prey.
**my soul** = me. Hebrew. *nephesh.* App-13 .
**while there is none to deliver.** Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulg, read "and there be no deliverer to rescue". Better, no sign of a rescuer. Compare [Lamentations 5:8](../../../kjv/lamentations/5/8) .

**iniquity.** Hebrew. *'aval.* App-44 . not the same as [Psalms 7:14](../../../kjv/psalms/7/14) .
**in my hands.** Hands put by Figure of speech *Metonymy* (of Cause), App-6 , for what is done by them.

**evil.** Hebrew. *raa'.* App-44 .
**delivered** = rescued. Aramaean and Syriac read "oppressed".
**enemy** = adversary. Hebrew. *zarar* .

**enemy** = foe. Hebrew. *'oyeb.*
**persecute . . . take . . . tread.** Figure of speech *Anabasis.* App-6 .
**it** = me.
**Selah.** Connecting the treading down of [Psalms 7:5](../../../kjv/psalms/7/5) with the rising up of Jehovah. See App-66 .

**people** = peoples.
**compass Thee about** = gather round Thee: i.e. to hear Thy judgment.

**wickedness . . . wicked** = lawlessness . . . lawless. Hebrew. *rasha* . App-44 .

**defence** = shield. See note on "shield", Psa 6:12 .
**upright.** Plural.

**righteous.** Plural.
**GOD.** Hebrew El. App-4 .

**He:** i.e. God.
**His sword . . . bow.** Figure of speech *Anthropopatheia.*

**ordaineth** = will ordain.

**Behold.** Figure of speech *Asterismos,* App-6 .
**travaileth . . . conceived . . . brought forth.** Figure of speech Anabasis. App-6 .
**travaileth** = will travail.
**iniquity.** Hebrew 'aven App-44 . i, not same word as [Psalms 7:3](../../../kjv/psalms/7/3) .
**mischief.** Hebrew. *'amal.* App-44 .

**pate** = head; especially the smooth skull. Put by Figure of speech *Synecdoche* (of Part), App-6 , for the whole person, for emphasis. From "plate" = the smooth top of the head (Skeat).

**MOST HIGH.** Hebrew. *Elyon.* See App-4 . First occurrence in Psalms. The first of thirty-six occurrences in O.T. is [Genesis 14:18](../../../kjv/genesis/14/18) .
**To the chief Musician.** See App-64 .
**upon Gittith** = relating to the Feast of Tabernacles (for which it was suited), because it commemorated safe dwelling after deliverance. See App-66 .

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