Psalms 4:1-8

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, but the army of Absalom, recruited from all Israel, was much larger. In order, therefore, to stimulate his own courage and to revive the drooping spirits of his men. David wrote this hymn, which, on account of its divine inspiration, has become a song of consolation for all those who are in trouble. To the chief musician, the man in charge of the liturgical music in the Temple-services, on Neginoth, the stringed instruments of the Temple-orchestra, a psalm of David.