Psalms 71:4 meaning and explanation

Deliver me, O my God, from the hand of the wicked, from the grasp of the unjust and ruthless.

Psalms 71:4, Berean Standard Bible

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The speaker is an older worshiper, likely in the temple, who has trusted God since childhood and now faces enemies who say God has abandoned him (verses 9 to 11). In verse 4 he asks to be rescued from the hand and grasp of the wicked, the unjust and the ruthless.

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