Daily Bible Challenge: Day 535 Psalms Chapter 57

Psalm Chapter 57. My HOPE keeps me going.

I broke this chapter up into three sections:

1. The NEGATIVE Comments: which represent David's current life circumstances. The words he uses are

Trouble. Cry out. Attacked. Attacked.

2. CRYING OUT Words: these are words David uses when crying out to God because of his circumstances and need for intervention.

Show Mercy. Be exalted God. Let Glory be seen.

3. The POSITIVE Comments: these are comments David makes which gives evidence of God's intervention and gives evidence of David's hope during his life circumstances. He says:

I take refuge in you. You vindicate me. You save me. You send love and faithfulness, abundantly. Enemies fall. I'm not giving up. I will praise and sing to the Lord.

God does intervene. His love and faithfulness is beyond our understanding. Because of my hope in the Lord, I will not give up and I will praise him.

Lord, with my life circumstances, I put my hope in You. I will not give up and I will praise you because I trust you to intervene and even be exalted through this and glorified.

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Jim A on December 3, 2020 at 7:52 am

Verse 6 stood out to me today as it talked about those who fell into a pit that they dug and meant for someone else. May God help us to not ever be pit diggers or make plans that would cause harm to others. This reminded me of what happened to Haman when he plotted to kill Mordecai and the Jews.

Psalm 57:6
They set a net for my steps; my soul was bowed down. They dug a pit in my way, but they have fallen into it themselves. Selah

I’m sure that there are many other verses related to this. Here are some of them:

Psalm 9:15
The nations have sunk in the pit that they made; in the net that they hid, their own foot has been caught.

Psalm 119:85
The insolent have dug pitfalls for me; they do not live according to Your law.

Proverbs 26:27
Whoever digs a pit will fall into it, and a stone will come back on him who starts it rolling.

Proverbs 28:10
Whoever misleads the upright into an evil way will fall into his own pit, but the blameless will have a goodly inheritance.

Ecclesiastes 10:8
He who digs a pit will fall into it, and a serpent will bite him who breaks through a wall.

Mark 9:42
“Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him if a great millstone were hung around his neck and he were thrown into the sea.”

Esther 7:9-10
Then Harbona, one of the eunuchs in attendance on the king, said, “Moreover, the gallows that Haman has prepared for Mordecai, whose word saved the king, is standing at Haman’s house, fifty cubits high.” And the king said, “Hang him on that.” So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the wrath of the king abated.

Galatians 6:7
Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap.

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