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Psalm 7:6

Arise, LORD, in your anger. Lift up yourself against the rage of my adversaries. Awake for me. You have commanded judgment.

4if I have rewarded evil to him who was at peace with me (yes, I have plundered him who without cause was my adversary),
5let the enemy pursue my soul, and overtake it; yes, let him tread my life down to the earth, and lay my glory in the dust. Selah.
6Arise, LORD, in your anger. Lift up yourself against the rage of my adversaries. Awake for me. You have commanded judgment.
7Let the congregation of the peoples surround you. Rule over them on high.
8The LORD administers judgment to the peoples. Judge me, LORD, according to my righteousness, and to my integrity that is in me.
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Notice

“Awake for me” is an urgent cry from someone facing rage, asking for God's anger and judgment when his intervention seems delayed.

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Where else Scripture says this

12 passages readers most often link with this verse, and the thread each one shares with it.

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Psalm 102:13You will arise and have mercy on Zion, for it is time to have pity on her. Yes, the set time has come.Both speak of God arising to act: Psalm 7 asks for judgment against adversaries, while Psalm 102 anticipates mercy on Zion.
Psalm 35:23Wake up! Rise up to defend me, my God! My Lord, contend for me!Both prayers urge God to wake and rise in defense of the person crying out to him.
Psalm 94:2Rise up, you judge of the earth. Pay back the proud what they deserve.Both ask God to rise in judgment, with Psalm 7 naming raging adversaries and Psalm 94 seeking repayment for the proud.
Job 8:6If you were pure and upright, surely now he would awaken for you, and make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous.Job 8:6 links God's awakening with a person's uprightness; Psalm 7 asks God to awake and then appeals to the speaker's integrity.
Psalm 44:23Wake up! Why do you sleep, Lord? Arise! Don’t reject us forever.Both use the urgent language of waking and arising to ask God to intervene when his help seems absent.
Isaiah 51:9Awake, awake, put on strength, arm of the LORD! Awake, as in the days of old, the generations of ancient times. Isn’t it you who cut Rahab in pieces, who …Both cry for God to awake and act against opposition; Isaiah also recalls the cutting of Rahab and piercing of the monster.
Isaiah 33:10“Now I will arise,” says the LORD. “Now I will lift myself up. Now I will be exalted.Psalm 7 asks the LORD to arise and lift himself up; Isaiah records the LORD declaring that he will do both.
Judges 4:6She sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of Kedesh Naphtali, and said to him, “Hasn’t the LORD, the God of Israel, commanded, ‘Go and lead the way to …The shared thread is the LORD's command: Psalm 7 names judgment, while Judges 4 names Barak's march to Mount Tabor.
2 Chronicles 20:12Our God, will you not judge them? For we have no might against this great company that comes against us. We don’t know what to do, but our eyes are on you.”Both prayers appeal to God's judgment against those coming against the speakers, looking to him for intervention.
Joel 3:12“Let the nations arouse themselves, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat; for there I will sit to judge all the surrounding nations.Both name God's judgment: Psalm 7 pleads for him to act, while Joel describes him sitting to judge the surrounding nations.
Isaiah 37:20Now therefore, LORD our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you are the LORD, even you only.”Both appeal to the LORD for action against an enemy; Isaiah's prayer also seeks recognition of the LORD among all kingdoms.
2 Samuel 18:19Then Ahimaaz the son of Zadok said, “Let me now run and carry the king news, how the LORD has avenged him of his enemies.”Psalm 7 asks the LORD to act against adversaries; Ahimaaz proposes carrying news that the LORD has avenged the king against his enemies.
Where this verse fits

Injustice and anger. feeling distant from God. waiting.

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Encouragement

This prayer leaves room for an urgent appeal against harm. The speaker asks God to confront his adversaries while placing himself under God's judgment too. God is the judge.

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Cross-reference data from OpenBible.info (CC BY). Scripture from the World English Bible (public domain). Arc diagram after Chris Harrison and Christoph Römhild (2007).