slept. have slept. At Mahanaim (2 Samuel 17:27-29).
sustained. was sustaining.
: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 ver...
I laid me down and slept - Notwithstanding these troubles and dangers I had such confidence that God hears prayer, and such calm trust in his pro...
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...
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 futur...
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 quiet...
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 ; r...
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...
I laid me down, etc.] His very sleep, natural as it was, was a proof of God's care, for he might have slept the sleep of death. Sustained] RV 's...
Psalms 3:1-8 ANOTHER pair of psalms follows the two of the Introduction. They are closely connected linguistically, structurally, and in subject....
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...
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 ar...
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. Th...
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 slep...
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 trou...
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 tr...
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...
Confidence in God. 4 I cried unto the L ORD with my voice, and he he...
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, af...
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 thou...
MINORITIES AND MAJORITIES Introduction “The preceding psalm had set before us the utter vanity of all attempts to injure the throne of God’s anoi...
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...
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 s...
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...
Lord, how are they increased that trouble me. Morning thoughts With returning day there comes back on the monarch’s heart the recollection of t...
But Thou, O Lord, art a shield for me. A man’s best confidence in trial These verses show how much a man may have in reality when he seems to h...
I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for the Lord sustained me. God’s protection of the helpless The reason why we sleep in peace and rise up in...
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 hi...
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 o...
I laid me down and slept, instead of spending the night in useless lamentation; I awaked, still safe and secure, not yet delivered into the power o...
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...
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. Y...
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 Absal...
Slept — Securely, casting all my cares upon God. Awaked — After a sweet and undisturbed sleep.
5 I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for the LORD sustained me.