Psalms 3:2

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; Psalms 3:8; Psalms 4:2; Psalms 4:4

Related Commentaries of Psalms 3:2

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

: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...
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Many there be which say of my soul - Or rather, perhaps, of his “life,” for so the word used here - נפשׁ nephesh - frequently means Leviticu...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

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...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Many. Figure of speech Anaphora. my soul . me, or myself. Hebrew. nephesh . App-13. help . salvation, or deliverance. God. Hebrew. Elohi...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

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 use...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

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 ene...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

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...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Selah— Various are the conjectures about the meaning of this word, says Dr. Chandler; but, whatever has been hitherto offered in explication of it,...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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 so...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Of my soul ] i.e. of myself.
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

There is no help. — According to the current creed, misfortune implied wickedness, and the wicked were God-forsaken. David, too, had sent back Zado...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 3:1-8 ANOTHER pair of psalms follows the two of the Introduction. They are closely connected linguistically, structurally, and in subject....
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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 consi...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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 l...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

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 sarc...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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 hi...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Distress and Confidence. A psalm of David, when he fled from Absalom his so...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

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 he...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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 tho...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

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...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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 Biblical Illustrator

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...
The Biblical Illustrator

There is no help for him in God. Help in God David had grieved God, and God had threatened to “raise up evil against him out of his own house.”...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

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...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Many there be which say of my soul, There is no help for him in God. Selah. David's condition at that time, as history shows, 2 Samuel 15:23 ; 2 Sa...
Wells of Living Water Commentary

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...
Wells of Living Water Commentary

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...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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...

² Many there be which say of my soul, There is no help for him in God. Selah.

Related Commentaries of Psalms 3:2

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Wells of Living Water Commentary

Wells of Living Water Commentary

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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