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Salmo 54 Para el director del coro: salmo de David, acerca de cuando los zifeos fueron a decirle a Saúl: «Sabemos dónde se esconde David». Acompáñese con instrumentos de cuerda. ¡Ven con tu gran poder, oh Dios, y rescátame! Defiéndeme con tu poder.
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Escucha mi oración, oh Dios; presta atención a mi ruego.
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Pues me atacan desconocidos; gente violenta trata de matarme. No les importa Dios en lo más mínimo. Interludio
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Pero Dios es mi ayudador; ¡el Señor me mantiene con vida!
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Que los planes malvados de mis enemigos se tornen en su contra; haz lo que prometiste y acaba con ellos.
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Sacrificaré una ofrenda voluntaria a ti; alabaré tu nombre, porque es bueno, oh Señor .
To the chief Musician on Neginoth, Maschil, [A Psalm] of David, when the Ziphims came and said to Saul, Doth not David hide himself with us? Of the word "neginoth," See Gill on "Ps 4:1," title; and of "maschil," See Gill on "Ps 32:1," title. The occasion of writing this psalm were the discoveries the Ziphims or Ziphites made to Saul of David being in their neighbourhood; which they did twice, as appears from 1 Samuel 23:14. Which of these gave occasion to the psalm is not certain; it is very likely that it was composed after both had been made. These Ziphims were the inhabitants of a city called Ziph, which was in the tribe of Judah, Joshua 15:55, near to which was a wilderness, which had its name from the city in which David was when they came to Saul with this news of him.