Psalm 7

“This lament calls on God the Warrior to rescue the psalmist from the vicious attacks of his enemies. While many laments confess sin, here the psalmist proclaims his innocence, as well as his confidence that God will recognize that he does not deserve the treatment is is receiving at the hands of his foes. In addition, he is sure that these enemies will get their deserts unless they relent.”

—Tremper Longman

Note that the meaning of the opening superscription of Psalm 7

“A Shiggaion of David, which he sang to the Lord concerning the words of Cush, a Benjaminite.”

is lost to us. A “Shiggaion” is probably some kind of musical term, but we don’t know what it means, and “Cush” is an otherwise unknown enemy of David.

I particularly like the psalmist’s description of what will happen to the wicked if he does not repent:

12 If a man does not repent, God will whet his sword;
    he has bent and readied his bow;
13 he has prepared for him his deadly weapons,
    making his arrows fiery shafts.
14 Behold, the wicked man conceives evil
    and is pregnant with mischief
    and gives birth to lies.
15 He makes a pit, digging it out,
    and falls into the hole that he has made.
16 His mischief returns upon his own head,
    and on his own skull his violence descends.

Haven’t we all at one time or another hoped that someone who has wronged us would eventually be a victim of his own scheming, “falling into the hole that he has made”?

See how the psalms give us language for everything?!