translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: PSA

label: NET study note

text: . The suffering and oppressed author laments that one of his friends has betrayed him, but he is confident that God will vindicate him by punishing his deceitful enemies.


text: Wickedness and destruction . These terms are also closely associated in Ps 7:14 .


text: It is you . The psalmist addresses the apparent ringleader of the opposition, an individual who was once his friend.


text: Go down alive . This curse imagines a swift and sudden death for the psalmist’s enemies.


text: He . This must refer to the psalmist’s former friend, who was addressed previously in vv. 12-14 .