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Psalms 7:3
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O Yahweh my God, if I have done this,If there is injustice in my hands,
O Lord my God, if I have done this, If there is injustice in my hands,
O God my Lord, if I haue done any such thing: or if there be any wickednesse in my handes.
Jehovah my God, if I have done this, if there be iniquity in my hands;
O LORD my God, if I have done this: If there is iniquity in my hands,
O Jehovah, my God, if I have done this, if there is iniquity in my hands,
Lord my God, I have done nothing wrong.
Yahweh, my God, if I have done this, If there is iniquity in my hands,
O Lord my God, if I haue done this; if there be iniquitie in my hands:
O LORDE my God, yff I haue done eny soch thinge: yf there be eny vnrightuousnes in my hades:
God , if I've done what they say— betrayed my friends, ripped off my enemies— If my hands are really that dirty, let them get me, walk all over me, leave me flat on my face in the dirt.
O Jehovah my God, if I have done this; If there be iniquity in my hands;
O Lord my God, if I have done this; if my hands have done any wrong;
O Yahweh my God, if I have done this; If there is iniquity in my hands;
O LORD my God, if I have done this; if there is iniquity in my hands;
O Lord my God, if I have done what they say, or am guilty of unjust actions,
I am innocent, Lord God!
otherwise, they will maul me like a lion and tear me apart, with no rescuer present.
O Lorde my God, if I haue done this thing, if there be any wickednes in mine handes,
O LORD my God, if I have done this thing and if there be iniquity in my hands,
O LORD my God, if I have done this, If there is injustice in my hands,
LORD, my God, if I have done this, If there is iniquity in my hands,
Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.
O Lord my God, if I have done wrong or am guilty of injustice,
O Lord my God, if I have done this, and there is guilt on my hands,
O Lord my God, if I have done this; (if there is unrighteousness in my hands;)
O LORD my God, if I have done this; if there be iniquity in my hands;
O LORD my God, if I have done this, if injustice is on my hands,
O Lord my God, if I have done this, if there is wrong in my hands,
O Yahweh my God, If I have done this, If there hath been perversity in my hands:
(7-4) O Lord, my God, if I have done this thing, if there be iniquity in my hands:
O Yahweh, my God, if I have done this, if there is wrong in my hands,
O Lord my God, if I have done this, if there is wrong in my hands,
O LORD my God, if I have done this, If there is injustice in my hands,
Lord my God, what have I done? Have my hands done something wrong?
O Lord , my God, if I have wronged anyone, if I have betrayed a friend or without cause done violence to my enemy— if I have done any of these things— <
Yahweh my God, if I have done this, if there is injustice on my hands,
Mi Lord God, if Y dide this thing, if wickidnesse is in myn hondis;
O Jehovah, my God, if I have done this, If there is iniquity in my hands,
O LORD my God, if I have done this, if there is wrong in my hands,
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
if I: Psalms 59:3, Joshua 22:22, 1 Samuel 20:8, 1 Samuel 22:8, 1 Samuel 22:13, 1 Samuel 24:9, 1 Samuel 26:18, 1 Samuel 26:19, 2 Samuel 16:7, 2 Samuel 16:8, Job 16:17-19
if there: Psalms 66:18, 1 Samuel 24:11, Job 11:14
Reciprocal: Genesis 44:9 - both Deuteronomy 21:7 - General 1 Samuel 20:1 - What have 2 Samuel 22:21 - rewarded 2 Chronicles 6:40 - my God Job 10:7 - Thou knowest Job 31:5 - If Psalms 18:20 - cleanness Psalms 35:7 - without Psalms 44:20 - If we Psalms 50:6 - Selah Psalms 69:4 - being Psalms 119:78 - without Psalms 119:121 - I have Psalms 139:24 - And see Jeremiah 15:15 - thou Acts 25:5 - if Acts 25:11 - if I 1 Corinthians 4:4 - I know 2 Corinthians 1:12 - our rejoicing 1 Thessalonians 2:10 - how 1 John 3:21 - General
Gill's Notes on the Bible
O Lord my God, if I have done this. The crime which Saul and his courtiers charged him with, and which was made so public that every body knew it; and therefore it was needless particularly to mention it; namely, that he lay in wait for Saul, and sought his life to take it away, 1 Samuel 24:9. The Targum interprets it of this psalm, paraphrasing it, "if I have made this song with an evil intention"; to give an ill character of any, and lead them with false charges;
if there be iniquity in my hands; not that he was without sin, he had it in his heart; nor that he lived without the actual commission of sin: but his sense is, that there was no iniquity, as not in his heart, purpose, and design, so not in his hand, nor attempted by him, of the kind he was accused of, 1 Samuel 24:11. Otherwise, we often hear him complaining of the depravity of his nature, and acknowledging his sins and transgressions, Psalms 32:5.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
O Lord my God - A solemn appeal to God as to the sincerity and truth of what he was about to say.
If I have done this - This thing charged upon me, for it is evident that “Cush,” whoever he was, had accused him of some wrong thing - some wicked action. What that was can only be learned from what follows, and even this is not very specific. So far as appears, however, it would seem to be that he accused David of bringing evil, in some way, upon one who was at peace with him; that is, of wantonly and without provocation doing him wrong, and of so doing wrong that he had the avails of it in his own possession - some spoil, or plunder, or property, that he had taken from him. The charge would seem to be, that he had made a wanton and unprovoked attack on one who had not injured him, and that he had taken, and had still in his possession, something of value that properly belonged to another. Whether the accuser (Cush) in this referred to himself or to some other person, does not appear clear from the psalm; but as he was filled with rage, and as the life of David was endangered by him, it would seem most probable that the reference was to himself, and that he felt he had been personally wronged. The design of David, in the passage now before us, is to deny this charge altogether. This he does in the most explicit manner, by saying that this was so far from being true, that he had, on the contrary, delivered the life of him that was his enemy, and by adding that, if this were so, he would be willing that the injured man should persecute and oppose him, and even trample his life down to the earth.
If there be iniquity in my hands - That is, if there is the iniquity referred to; or, in other words, if he had in his possession what had been wrongfully taken from another, to wit, as appears, from this “Cush” who now accused him. The word “iniquity” here denotes an “unjust possession” - a property that had been unjustly taken from another; and, as remarked above, the slanderous charge would seem to have been, that he had taken that property from some one who was at peace with him, and that he retained it contrary to justice. This charge David means peremptorily to deny.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 7:3. If I have done this — David was accused by Saul of affecting the kingdom; and of waiting for an opportunity to take away the life of his king, his patron, and his friend. In his application to God he refers to these charges; meets them with indignation; and clears himself of them by a strong appeal to his Judge; and an imprecation that, if he had meditated or designed any such thing, he might meet with nothing but curse and calamity either from God or man.
