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Verse Psalms 3:2. _NO HELP FOR HIM IN GOD._] These were some of the
_reproaches_ of his enemies, _Shimei_ and others: "He is now down, and
he shall never be able to rise. God alone can save him from...
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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 verse,
and so in the Syriac version, the Latin Vulgate, and...
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MANY THERE BE WHICH SAY OF MY SOUL - Or rather, perhaps, of his
“life,” for so the word used here - נפשׁ _nephesh_ -
frequently means Leviticus 17:11; Deuteronomy 12:23;...
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Psalms 3
SORROWS AND TRIALS OF THE GODLY REMNANT (3-7)
_ 1. Persecution and comfort (Psalms 3:1)_
2. Arise Jehovah! Save me, O my God (Psalms 3:5)
The five Psalms which follow bring before us the g...
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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 the title is of no value except as an extreme instan...
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MANY. Figure of speech _Anaphora._
MY SOUL. me, or myself. Hebrew. _nephesh_. App-13.
HELP. salvation, or deliverance.
GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim._ App-4.
SELAH. Connecting the contrast between "man" (as...
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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 penned it, to commemorate both his danger and his
de...
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SELAH— Various are the conjectures about the meaning of this word,
says Dr. Chandler; but, whatever has been hitherto offered in
explication of it, is no more than conjecture, and I am far from being...
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PSALMS 3
DESCRIPTIVE TITLE
Conspiracy, Confidence, Courage and Victory.
Chief Conspirator left Unnamed!
ANALYSIS
Stanza I., Psalms 3:1-2, A Surprising Conspiracy. Stanza II., Psalms
3:3-4, Unshaken...
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_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 soul,
There is no help for him in God.' Then Psalms 35:3 forms...
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3:2 Selah. (a-14) 'Selah' is said to mean a pause. Some take it as a
direction to the singers to raise their voices. Selah occurs 74 times
in the O.T.. 71 in the Psalms, 17 in first book, 30 in second...
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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 it in the revolt of Absalom, and it is the only Ps.
s...
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OF MY SOUL] i.e. of myself....
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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...
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THERE IS NO HELP. — According to the current creed, misfortune
implied wickedness, and the wicked were God-forsaken. David, too, had
sent back Zadok with the Ark, which in the popular view meant sendi...
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_[Psalms 3:3]_ רַבִּים֮ אֹמְרִ֪ים לְ
נַ֫פְשִׁ֥י אֵ֤ין...
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Psalms 3:1
ANOTHER pair of psalms follows the two of the Introduction. They are
closely connected linguistically, structurally, and in subject. The
one is a morning, the other an evening hymn, and pos...
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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...
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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 are increased, and the bitterest part of the pain is...
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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 to
consider the sentence as a thing of great import...
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_Why. Let me know the enormity of my sins. All Israel follows Absalom,
2 Kings xv. 13. So all rose up against Christ. (Worthington) --- The
Church was assailed on all sides, (Calmet) and every soul mu...
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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 considered, as referring to the persecutions of the Lord J...
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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
used as meaning _of _in Hebrew, but David here intended to expr...
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The first, Psalms 3, gives the condition in general in contrast with
Psalms 2, and the support and confidence of faith in it. The troublers
of the godly man are multiplied, haughty, and triumphing ove...
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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 like a sword pierced through it:
[THERE IS] NO HELP F...
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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
sarcasms _leniter volant, non leniter violant._ David fe...
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_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 him for his many crimes, and will never help him more...
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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 on the morning after the day of the flight, when
David s...
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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 Samuel 15:30, was such as to make all men doubt the
poss...
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1-3 An active believer, the more he is beaten off from God, either by
the rebukes of providence, or the reproaches of enemies, the faster
hold he will take, and the closer will he cleave to him. A ch...
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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 HELP
FOR HIM IN GOD; God hath utterly forsaken him for his many cr...
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Psalms 3:2 Many H7227 say H559 (H8802) me H5315 help H3444 God H430
Selah H5542
no -...
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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 those who say of my life (nephesh),
“There is no help ...
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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 son. A dark hour that for David, preceded by the sha...
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CONTENTS: A prayer of David (when he fled from Absalom).
CHARACTERS: God, David.
CONCLUSION: God is a shield for His trusting people. He wards off the
fiery darts of Satan and the storms of trouble,...
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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 psalm; and yet the sense is given with much
diver...
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_Lord, how are they increased that trouble me._
MORNING THOUGHTS
With returning day there comes back on the monarch’s heart the
recollection of the enemies who threaten him, a nation up in arms
again...
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_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 threatening was fulfilled in
the rebellion of Abs...
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PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 3:1. This is the first psalm with a
title. The title names David as the author and ties the psalm to
Absalom’s rebellion (2 Samuel 15:1). Fou
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PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 3:2 As is usually the case in the OT, SALVATION
here refers to both physical and spiritual deliverance from danger.
The fact that the enemies are saying this of David’s SOUL means...
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MINORITIES AND MAJORITIES
_Introduction_
“The preceding psalm had set before us the utter vanity of all
attempts to injure the throne of God’s anointed King—Messiah. The
present psalm relates to tha...
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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
historical correctness of the title has been questioned (H...
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The third psalm is a psalm of David when he was fleeing from Absalom.
Going over the Mount of Olives and out towards the Judean wilderness
on news that Absalom was coming with an army from Hebron. And...
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2 Samuel 16:7; 2 Samuel 16:8; Habakkuk 3:13; Habakkuk 3:3; Habakkuk
3:9
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DAVID'S TRUST IN GOD
Psalms 3:1
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
As an introduction to the Third Psalm we want to give you a vision of
the young man Absalom, the son of David, who is described as the basis
of Da...
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THE PREFATORY PSALMS
Psalms 1:1, _Psalms 2:1, and Psalms 3:1_
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
The first chapter of the Psalm is its preface. You may call it, if you
wish, the prefatory Psalm. It gives you the ke...