Salmi 7:3

3 O Eterno, Dio mio, se ho fatto questo, se v’è perversità nelle mie mani,

Salmi 7:3 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 7:3

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 ) ( Psalms 38:3 Psalms 38:4 ) ( 51:1-5 ) .

Salmi 7:3 In-Context

1 Shiggaion di Davide ch’egli cantò all’Eterno, a proposito delle parole di Cush, beniaminita. O Eterno, Dio mio, io mi confido in te; salvami da tutti quelli che mi perseguitano, e liberami;

2 che talora il nemico, come un leone, non sbrani l’anima mia lacerandola, senza che alcuno mi liberi.

3 O Eterno, Dio mio, se ho fatto questo, se v’è perversità nelle mie mani,

4 se ho reso mal per bene a chi viveva meco in pace (io che ho liberato colui che m’era nemico senza cagione),

5 perseguiti pure il nemico l’anima mia e la raggiunga, e calpesti al suolo la mia vita, e stenda la mia gloria nella polvere. Sela.