“ I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for the LORD sustained me. ”
: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...
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...
slept . have slept. At Mahanaim ( 2 Samuel 17:27-29 ). sustained . was sustaining.
According to the usage of the Hebrews, these words, which are in the past tense, I laid me down and slept, are taken sometimes for the future, I will lie down and sleep. (44) If we retai...
I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for the LORD sustained me. I laid me down and slept - He who knows that he has God for his Protector may go quietly and confidently to his bed, not fearing the vio...
I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for the LORD sustained me. I laid me down and slept. Thus this verse would be joined to Psalms 3:3-4 ; referring to past times, in which God had given him...
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...
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...
Some have thought that what David saith in this verse of laying down and taking rest, hath a much higher meaning than the common sleep of the bed. They have supposed that the words are typical of Jes...
GOD’S PROTECTION OF THE HELPLESS IN SLEEP ‘I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for the Lord sustained me.’ Psalms 3:5 ‘I laid me down and slept; and awaked.’ I. If we stopped at that point, h...
I laid me down and slept ,.... After the battle was over between Absalom's men and his, says Aben Ezra; but rather this was in the midst of his trouble and distress, since he afterwards prays for sa...
I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for the LORD sustained me. Ver. 5. I laid me down and slept ] My faith was above my fear; I knew whom I had trusted. No marvel I slept so soundly, seeing Antipa...
I cried unto the Lord with my voice By prayer I commended myself to the divine protection; and he heard me out of his holy hill Out of heaven, so called Psalms 15:1 . I laid me down and slept...
Confidence in God. 4 I cried unto the L ORD with my voice, and he heard me out of his holy hill. Selah. 5 I laid me...
I laid me down and slept, to wit, securely, casting all my cares and fears upon God, and relying upon his help. I awaked in due time and manner, after a sweet and undisturbed sleep. Sustained me;...
Section 3. His Confidence In The Midst of Danger. ‘I laid myself down and slept, I awoke, for YHWH sustains me. I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people, Who have set themselves against...
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...
Psalms 3:5 I. In this text, if we will consider it well, we find a clear token of the mysteries of this solemn time of Easter: our Lord dying and rising again. If the person who speaks is Jesus Ch...
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...
Acts 12:6 ; Isaiah 26:3 ; Job 11:18 ; Job 11:19 ; Leviticus 26:6 ; Proverbs 14:26 ; Proverbs 18:10 ; Proverbs 3:24 ; Psalms 127:2 ; Psalms 4:8 ; Psalms 66:9
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....
Slept — Securely, casting all my cares upon God. Awaked — After a sweet and undisturbed sleep.