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Psalms 7:5

Psalms 7:5
Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it; yea, let him tread down my life upon the earth, and lay mine honour in the dust. Selah.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it,.... That is, if the above things he was charged with could be proved against him; then he was content that Saul his enemy should pursue after him, and…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

Let the enemy persecute my soul - Persecute my “life,” for so the word rendered “soul,” נפשׁ nephesh, is evidently used here. He was willing, if he had been guilty of the thing charged upon him, that…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Psalms 7:1-9

Shiggaion is a song or psalm (the word is used so only here and Hab 3:1) - a wandering song (so some), the matter and composition of the several parts being different, but artificially put together -…