“ Salvation belongeth unto the LORD: thy blessing is upon thy people. 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...
(d) Salvation [belongeth] unto the LORD: thy blessing [is] upon thy people. Selah. (d) No matter how great or many the dangers may be, yet God always has ways to deliver his.
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...
Salvation . deliverance, same word as "help", Psalms 3:2 . Thy blessing is . Thy blessing hast been, and wilt be: i.e. whatever may happen to me. In this spirit he sends back the Ark ( 2 Samuel 1...
8. Salvation belongeth unto the Lord. Because ל is sometimes used by the Hebrews for מך Min, some not improperly translate this clause, Salvation is of the Lord. I, however consid...
Salvation belongeth unto the LORD: thy blessing is upon thy people. Selah. Salvation belongeth unto the Lord - It is God alone who saves. He is the fountain whence help and salvation come; and to...
Salvation belongeth unto the Lord, &c.— This should rather be rendered, Salvation be unto the Lord; thy blessing be unto thy people: It shews David's generosity of heart, thus to become an in...
Salvation belongeth unto the LORD: thy blessing is upon thy people. Selah. Salvation belongeth unto the Lord - as its sole Possessor and Dispenser ( Jonah 2:9 ; Proverbs 21:31 , end; Jeremi...
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...
Thy blessing... — Rather, let thy blessing be upon thy people. It is not the statement of a fact, but an intercessory prayer. The true Shepherd of His people was a noble and generous man. This cl...
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...
See Reader what a blessed joyful conclusion! What could open more gloomy and discouraging than this Psalm did! What can end more triumphant and joyful! But do not fail to trace the whole to its sourc...
Salvation [belongeth] unto the Lord ,.... As the author of it; temporal salvation is of him; all the deliverances of the saints out of their troubles are from him; and to him is owing their spiritua...
Salvation [belongeth] unto the LORD: thy blessing [is] upon thy people. Selah. Ver. 8. Salvation belongeth unto the Lord ] Here is much in few. Fulgentius saith, that the most golden sentence is...
Salvation belongeth unto God I expect not salvation from my counsels or forces, but from thy power and favour alone. Thy blessing is Or rather, let it be; upon thy people Either upon my friends...
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 expect not salvation from my forces, but from thy power and favour alone. Thy blessing is, or rather, let it be, (so he closeth with a prayer,) upon thy people; either upon my friends and follo...
His Prayer for Deliverance, and Cry for Blessing on His People. ‘Arise, O YHWH, save me, O my God, For you have smitten all my enemies on the cheekbone You have broken the teeth of the wicked.'...
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...
1 Peter 3:9 ; Acts 3:26 ; Acts 4:12 ; Ephesians 1:3 ; Hebrews 6:14 ; Hosea 13:4 ; Isaiah 43:11 ; Isaiah 45:21 ; Isaiah 45:22 ; Jeremiah 3:23 ; Jonah 2:9 ; Proverbs 21:31 ; Psalms 29:11 ;...
David's Trust in God Psalms 3:1-8 INTRODUCTORY WORDS As an introduction to the Third Psalm we want to give you a vision of the young man Absalom, the son of David, who is described as the basi...