Psalm 7 — you’ll notice the preamble to it says, “A Shiggaion of David, which he sang to the Lord concerning Cush, a Benjamite.” Now, that tells us everything that we need to know about this psalm as far as history and context.
A Shiggaion is a song that’s sung with both high and low notes. And notice that it says it is a song that David wrote concerning Cush, a Benjamite. Now, we don’t know anything about this Cush, biblically speaking, other than what it says right here — he’s a Benjamite.
What we do know, historically, is that the Benjamites gave David a very rough time. Why would that be? Well, because of a certain predecessor of David by the name of King Saul. Saul was a Benjamite, and the Benjamites basically took the approach that David was responsible for Saul’s demise. So, they blamed David, they scorned David, and they slandered David.
The context of this song is that David is lamenting before the Lord about the treatment that he’s receiving at the hands of the Benjamites. Now, there are two approaches that we could go through about how to respond to critics, how to respond when people are gossiping about you, and how to respond to slanderers. I’m going to take a little different approach to this particular psalm. Although again, you could certainly se ...
