“ Many there be which say of my soul, There is no help for him in God. Selah. ”
:Title A Psalm of David - literally, belonging to David; that is, belonging to him as the author. This is marked in the Hebrew as the first verse, and so in the Syriac version, the Latin Vulgat...
Many [there be] which say of my soul, [There is] no help for him in God. (b) Selah. (b) Selah here signifies a lifting up of the voice, to cause us to consider the sentence as a thing of great impor...
III. A Morning Hymn of Triumph and Peace. It is a king or party leader who speaks, but who he was or when he wrote we cannot say. The conjecture in the title is of no value except as an extreme ins...
Many. Figure of speech Anaphora. my soul . me, or myself. Hebrew. nephesh . App-13. help . salvation, or deliverance. God. Hebrew. Elohim. App-4. Selah. Connecting the contrast betwe...
The translation of some, Many say OF my soul, does not give the true meaning of this passage. The letter ל lamed is indeed sometimes used as meaning of in Hebrew, but David here inten...
Many there be which say of my soul, There is no help for him in God. Selah. No help for him in God - These were some of the reproaches of his enemies, Shimei and others: "He is now down, and he s...
Lord, how are they increased that trouble me!— This psalm answers in every part of it to the inscription. When David was resettled on his throne he penned it, to commemorate both his danger and his...
Many there be which say of my soul, There is no help for him in God. Selah. Say of my soul, х lªnapshiy ( H5315 )] - better 'say TO my soul, There is no help for him in God.' Then Psalms...
This is the first of the 'Davidic' Psalms. It is a morning prayer as Psalms 3:6 suggests. The heading of the Ps. provides a historical setting for it in the revolt of Absalom, and it is the only Ps...
There is no help. — According to the current creed, misfortune implied wickedness, and the wicked were God-forsaken. David, too, had sent back Zadok with the Ark, which in the popular view meant se...
Psalms 3:1-8 ANOTHER pair of psalms follows the two of the Introduction. They are closely connected linguistically, structurally, and in subject. The one is a morning, the other an evening hymn, a...
Morning and Evening Prayers Psalms 3:1-8 ; Psalms 4:1-8 These psalms probably date from David's flight before Absalom, 2 Samuel 16:1-23 . It is the perfection of trust to be able to sleep whe...
This is a morning psalm. It is the song of a soul in grave peril as a new day dawns. The consciousness of difficulty is first uttered. Adversaries are increased, and the bitterest part of the pain is...
Most probably David referred to the curses of Shimei in what he here saith. See 2 Samuel 16:8 . But still yet more striking are these words if considered, as referring to the persecutions of the Lor...
Many [there be] which say of my soul ,.... Or "to my soul" u, the following cutting words, which touched to the quick, reached his very heart, and like a sword pierced through it: [there is] no he...
Many [there be] which say of my soul, [There is] no help for him in God. Selah. Ver. 2. Many there be which say of my soul ] These scoffs and sarcasms leniter volant, non leniter violant. David...
Many there be that say of my soul Of me; the soul being commonly put for the person: There is no help for him in God God hath utterly forsaken him for his many crimes, and will never help him mor...
Distress and Confidence. A psalm of David, when he fled from Absalom his son. 1 L ORD , how are they increased that...
Of my soul, i.e. of me; the soul being commonly put for the person, as Isaiah 46:2 Amos 6:8 , compared with Genesis 22:16 . There is no help for him in God; God hath utterly forsaken him...
Section 1. The Distress in Which He Found Himself. ‘YHWH, how are my adversaries multiplied, Many are those who rise up against me, Many are those who say of my life (nephesh), “There is no hel...
MINORITIES AND MAJORITIES Introduction “The preceding psalm had set before us the utter vanity of all attempts to injure the throne of God’s anointed King—Messiah. The present psalm relates to th...
These may be called very properly morning and evening Psalms. The third Psalm is the morning Psalm. A psalm of David when he fled from Absalom, his son. A dark hour that for David, preceded by the sh...
Psalms 3:4 . Selah. This word, as all seem agreed, refers to the singing and music only, the better to adapt changes of airs to the sentiments of the psalm; and yet the sense is given with much di...
Lord, how are they increased that trouble me. Morning thoughts With returning day there comes back on the monarch’s heart the recollection of the enemies who threaten him, a nation up in arms a...
EXPOSITION Tins psalm is entitled, "a Psalm of David when he fled from Absalom his son;" literally, "in his flight from Absalom his son." The historical correctness of the title has been questio...
Morning Prayer of a Christian in Danger and Affliction. A Psalm of David, when he fled from Absalom, his son, 2 Samuel 15:14 , probably written on the morning after the day of the flight, when Da...
2 Samuel 16:7 ; 2 Samuel 16:8 ; Habakkuk 3:13 ; Habakkuk 3:3 ; Habakkuk 3:9 ; Matthew 27:42 ; Matthew 27:43 ; Psalms 22:7 ; Psalms 42:10 ; Psalms 42:3 ; Psalms 71:11 ; Psalms 3:4 ; Psalm...
The Prefatory Psalms Psalms 1:1-6 , Psalms 2:1-12 , and Psalms 3:1-8 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The first chapter of the Psalm is its preface. You may call it, if you wish, the prefatory Psalm....
My soul — Of me: the soul being commonly put for the person. In God — God hath utterly forsaken him. Selah — This word is no where used but in this poetical book, and in the song of Habakkuk. Proba...