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Psalm 3
- Purpose
- To offer praise and prayer to God, to supply God’s people with texts for worship, and to provide reflection on the sovereignty of God and some of life’s toughest questions
- Author
- Various; nearly half are linked with David
- Date
- Written over the course of many centuries; the process of collecting and editing was likely completed after the Babylonian exile
- Setting
- Varied, but a postexilic setting accounts for much of the editorial activity and grouping of the psalms
Psalms has 36,194 words: about 2 hours 32 minutes to read, or 4 hours 18 minutes to listen to. Read it from the start or listen from the start.
Outline: the section headings
- Opening…
Headings from the Berean Standard Bible.
The full introduction to Psalms opens beside chapter 1, in the Tyndale commentary.
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A Psalm of David, when he fled from Absalom his son.
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5I laid me
6I will not be
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Footnotes
- a 3:3 for: or, about
Deliver Me, O LORD!
A Psalm of David, when he fled from his son Absalom.
1O LORD, how my foes have increased!How many rise up against me! 2Many say of me,“God will not deliver him.”Selahfootnote a 3But You, O LORD, are a shield around me,my glory, and the One who lifts my head. 4To the LORD I cry aloud,and He answers me from His holy mountain.Selah 5I lie down and sleep;I wake again, for the LORD sustains me. 6I will not fear the myriadsset against me on every side.
7Arise, O LORD!Save me, O my God!Strike all my enemies on the jaw;break the teeth of the wicked. 8Salvation belongs to the LORD;may Your blessing be on Your people.Selah
Footnotes
- a 3:2 Selah or Interlude is probably a musical or literary term; here and throughout the Psalms.
Opening the translation…
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