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George Haydock's Catholic Commentary

Psalms 4:4

Wonderful, ( mirificavit) according to the Hebrew means also has chosen in a striking manner his appointed ruler, or holy person. (Berthier) --- Holy, often means one set aside, (Luke ii.) or commissioned, though the person be a pagan, Isaias xiii. 3. Chasid, (Haydock) particularly signifies a "clement" character, such as a king ought to be. (Calmet) --- "The Lord has set aside for himself the pious." (Pagnin) --- I am ready to pardon you, but know that if you continue rebellious, you go against the ordinance of heaven. (Haydock)

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Psalms 4:4. _STAND IN AWE, AND SIN NOT_] The _Septuagint_, which is copied by St. _Paul_, Ephesians 4:26, translate this clause, Οργιζεσθε, και μη ἁμαρτανετε; _Be ye angry, and sin not_. The _...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    STAND IN AWE - Still addressed to those who in Psalms 4:2 are called “sons of men;” that is, to his enemies. This is rendered by Prof. Alexander, “Rage and sin not.” The Aramaic Paraphrase renders it,...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    Psalms 4 __ 1. The cry to Jehovah (Psalms 4:1) 2. The warning to the enemies (Psalms 4:4) 3. The assurance of faith (Psalms 4:6)...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    IV. AN EVENING HYMN BY A MAN HIGH IN OFFICE WHOSE RULE EXCITES JEALOUSY AND RESISTANCE. The Psalmist begins with an appeal to the God of his righteousness, _i.e._ the God who declares that his case is...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    STAND IN AWE, &C.. Stand in awe and [so] sin not. sin. Hebrew. _chata'_ STILL. silent. SELAH. Connecting their sin with its being put away. See App-66....

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    STAND IN AWE, &C.— The LXX, Vulgate, Syriac, Ethiopian, and Arabic, render it, _Be ye angry,_ &c....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    PSALMS 4 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE The Ideal Levite's Evening Prayer. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 4:1, New Favour Sought in the Strength of Past Supplies. Stanza II., Psalms 4:2, Expostulation addressed to...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _STAND IN AWE, AND SIN NOT: COMMUNE WITH YOUR OWN HEART UPON YOUR BED, AND BE STILL. SELAH._ Stand in awe, and sin not. Septuagint and Ephesians 4:26 translate "Be ye angry, and sin not." х_ RIGZUW _...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    4:4 anger, (d-4) Or 'tremble.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    This is an evening hymn, and though no occasion is mentioned it may perhaps be referred, like Psalms 3 (its natural companion), to the time of Absalom's revolt, but to a somewhat later stage in the co...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    STAND IN AWE] LXX renders, 'Be ye angry,' and is followed by St. Paul in Ephesians 4:26. BE STILL] cease your striving after vanity. SELAH] see on Psalms 3:4....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    Psalms 1:41 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ Words in boxes are from the Bible. The notes explain some of the words with a *star by them. Tap the * before a word to show an explanation. The translated Bible tex...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    STAND IN AWE. — Literally, _tremble,_ whether with _fear_ or _anger._ But the rendering of the LXX., “be angry,” quoted in Ephesians 4:26, though etymologically correct, is plainly inadmissible here....

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    _[Psalms 4:5]_ רִגְז֗וּ וְֽ אַל ־תֶּ֫חֱטָ֥אוּ אִמְר֣וּ...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    Psalms 4:1 Psalms 3:1; Psalms 4:1 are a pair. They are similar in expression (my glory, there be many which say, I laid me down and slept) in the psalmist's situation, and in structure (as indicated b...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    MORNING AND EVENING PRAYERS Psalms 3:1; Psalms 4:1 These psalms probably date from David's flight before Absalom, 2 Samuel 16:1. It is the perfection of trust to be able to sleep when our foes are ma...

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

    This is a song of the evening. The general circumstances out of which it rises are the same as those of the previous psalm. Now, however, the day into which the singer marched with confidence is over....

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    (g) Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be (h) still. Selah. (g) For fear of God's judgment. (h) Cease your rage....

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Nothing can be more gracious than what is here recommended. It is as if the Holy Ghost commanded the sinner to pause over the view of his own nothingness, and then to come by faith, with Jesus and his...

  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

    _SELF-COMMUNION_ ‘Commune with your own heart.’ Psalms 4:4 I. CONSIDER, FIRST, THE NATURE OF GODLY MEDITATION, REGARDED AS A DISTINCT EXERCISE OF OUR PRACTICAL CHRISTIANITY.—We must not identify th...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    4._Tremble then. _Now he exhorts his enemies to repentance, if peradventure, their madness was not wholly incorrigible. In the first place, he bids them _tremble, _or _be troubled_; a word by which he...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    Psalms 4 differs in this respect from Psalms 3, of which we shall see other examples, that it is not simple confidence, but appeals to righteousness against the sons of men, who turn all the glory tha...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    STAND IN AWE, AND SIN NOT,.... That is, stand in awe of God, and his righteous, judgments; be afraid of him, and tremble before him; make him your fear and your dread, and go on no longer and proceed...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah. Ver. 4. _Stand in awe, and sin not_] Be stirred, or commoved, or troubled. Tremble and sin not. But today th...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Stand in awe_ Hebrew, רגזו, _rigzu, Tremble_, therefore, and be afraid, if not of me, yet, at least, of God, who hath engaged himself in my cause, and will be an adversary to my adversaries. So said...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Stand in awe, trembling before the wrath of God, AND SIN NOT, considering carefully lest they definitely endanger their own salvation; COMMUNE WITH YOUR OWN HEART UPON YOUR BED, deliberating when the...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    EVENING PRAYER OF A CHRISTIAN IN EVERY KIND OF TROUBLE. David, in his flight before Absalom, had come to Mahanaim, on the east side of Jordan, 2 Samuel 17:24. He had a number of faithful men with him,...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-5 Hear me for thy mercy-sake, is our best plea. He who will not ask such blessings as pardon, and justifying righteousness, and eternal life, must perish for the want of them. Alas! that so many sh...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    Tremble therefore and be afraid, if not of me, yet at least of God, who hath engaged himself in my cause or quarrel, and will be an adversary to my adversaries. Or, _be angry_, as this word is here re...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Psalms 4:4 angry H7264 (H8798) sin H2398 (H8799) Meditate H559 (H8798) heart H3824 bed H4904 still...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘Stand in awe and do not sin, Commune with your own heart on your bed and be still, Selah Offer the sacrifices of righteousness, And put your trust in YHWH.' In view of whom they are dealing with t...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Psalms 4:4 To persons who are cast down and doubtful what their hope is of pardon, and sanctification, and final acceptance the Divine answer is nothing mystical and perplexing, nothing implying that...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Psalms 4:4 _(with Psalms 24:3)_ This text addresses itself to every single, solitary person, in the most solitary, silent time, when his day's work is ended and he is going to sleep. David could not...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Psalms 4 I. Everywhere, in the history of the human heart, these two things are found in the hours of our bitter pain: unfathomable desire and want of something more than earth or its love can give, a...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Psalms 4:1. _Hear me, when I call, O God of my righteousness: thou hast enlarged me when I was in distress; have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer._ Past experience is a sweet solace in the hour of t...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Psalms 4:1. _Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness: thou hast enlarged me when I was in distress; have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer._ Good men want to be heard when they pray, they are...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: David's exhortation to others to serve God. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: The godly are chosen, and by distinguished grace set apart and separated from men, all the longings of the s...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Psalms 4:3. _Him that is godly._ חסיךְ _chasik,_ merciful. The literal reading is by far the best, because it designates godliness by the fruits of piety. Psalms 4:4. _Stand in awe._ St. Paul here fol...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Stand in awe._ AWE OF GOD All sin is an offence against God, and nothing tends more powerfully to correct it than worthy thoughts of God, and of our relation to Him. They who have no habitual though...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness._ A GENTLE REMONSTRANCE This Psalm is mainly a gentle, earnest remonstrance with antagonists, seeking to win them to a better mind. The cry for an answ...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 4:1. This psalm expresses quiet trust amid troubling circumstances, combining the categories of individual lament and confidence....

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 4:4 BE ANGRY, AND DO NOT SIN. That is, “Even if you are angry at those who slander you, do not sin by seeking revenge.” The way to prevent such sin is to PONDER and be silent

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    NIGHT THOUGHTS _Introduction_ “The Psalmist prays God to deliver him from present as from past distresses (Psalms 4:2). 1. He assures the haters of his regal dignity that God bestowed it, and will...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION AGAIN the psalm has a title, "To the chief Musician on Neginoth. A Psalm of David;" literally, "to the_ _superintendent or foreman," which, in this instance, would be the choir-leader, or ...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    The fourth psalm is to the chief musician on Neginoth. Now Neginoth is a stringed instrument, and it is mentioned in connection with several of the Psalms--3, 5, 53, 54, 60, 66, and 75. So it is some...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Corinthians 13:5; Ephesians 4:26; Habakkuk 2:20; Jeremiah 5:22;...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    A PSALM OF SUPPLICATION Psalms 4:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. The prayer of Cornelius. As an introductory to the study of Psalms 4:1, which sets forth a great prayer of David, we thought we would give s...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    In awe — Be afraid, if not of me, yet of God, who hath engaged in my cause. Sin not — By prosecuting your rebellion against God's authority. On your bed — Calmly consider these things in the silent ni...

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