Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Psalms 3:5
Slept — Securely, casting all my cares upon God. Awaked — After a sweet and undisturbed sleep.
Slept — Securely, casting all my cares upon God. Awaked — After a sweet and undisturbed sleep.
Verse Psalms 3:5. _I LAID ME DOWN AND SLEPT_] He who knows that he has God for his Protector may go quietly and confidently to his bed, not fearing the _violence of the fire_, the _edge of the sword_,...
: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 verse, and so in the Syriac version, the Latin Vulgate, and...
I LAID ME DOWN AND SLEPT - Notwithstanding these troubles and dangers I had such confidence that God hears prayer, and such calm trust in his protection, that I laid me down gently and slept securely....
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...
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...
SLEPT. have slept. At Mahanaim (2 Samuel 17:27). SUSTAINED. was sustaining....
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...
_I LAID ME DOWN AND SLEPT; I AWAKED; FOR THE LORD SUSTAINED ME._ I laid me down and slept. Thus this verse would be joined to Psalms 3:3; referring to past times, in which God had given him calm slee...
I LAID ME DOWN, etc.] His very sleep, natural as it was, was a proof of God's care, for he might have slept the sleep of death. SUSTAINED] RV 'sustaineth,' suggesting continual oversight....
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...
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...
_[Psalms 3:6]_ אֲנִ֥י שָׁכַ֗בְתִּי וָֽ אִ֫ישָׁ֥נָה הֱקִיצֹ֑ותִי...
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...
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...
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...
_Hill. Sion, where the ark had been placed, (Calmet) or from heaven. (Menochius) --- Hebrew adds, "Selah." (Protestants) (Haydock)_...
Some have thought that what David saith in this verse of laying down and taking rest, hath a much higher meaning than the common sleep of the bed. They have supposed that the words are typical of Jesu...
_GOD’S PROTECTION OF THE HELPLESS IN SLEEP_ ‘I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for the Lord sustained me.’ Psalms 3:5 ‘I laid me down and slept; and awaked.’ I. If we stopped at that point, hundr...
According to the usage of the Hebrews, these words, which are in the past tense, _I laid me down and slept, _are taken sometimes for the future, _I will lie down and sleep. _(44) If we retain the read...
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...
I LAID ME DOWN AND SLEPT,.... After the battle was over between Absalom's men and his, says Aben Ezra; but rather this was in the midst of his trouble and distress, since he afterwards prays for salva...
I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for the LORD sustained me. Ver. 5. _I laid me down and slept_] My faith was above my fear; I knew whom I had trusted. No marvel I slept so soundly, seeing Antipate...
_I cried unto the Lord with my voice_ By prayer I commended myself to the divine protection; _and he heard me out of his holy hill_ Out of heaven, so called Psalms 15:1. _I laid me down and slept_ Sec...
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...
I laid me down and slept, instead of spending the night in useless lamentation; I AWAKED, still safe and secure, not yet delivered into the power of his enemies; FOR THE LORD SUSTAINED ME, it was Davi...
4-8 Care and grief do us good, when they engage us to pray to God, as in earnest. David had always found God ready to answer his prayers. Nothing can fix a gulf between the communications of God's gr...
I LAID ME DOWN AND SLEPT, to wit, securely, casting all my cares and fears upon God, and relying upon his help. I awaked in due time and manner, after a sweet and undisturbed sleep. SUSTAINED ME; or,...
Psalms 3:5 down H7901 (H8804) slept H3462 (H8799) awoke H6974 (H8689) LORD H3068 sustained H5564 ...
SECTION 3. HIS CONFIDENCE IN THE MIDST OF DANGER. ‘I laid myself down and slept, I awoke, for YHWH sustains me. I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people, Who have set themselves against me...
Psalms 3:5 I. In this text, if we will consider it well, we find a clear token of the mysteries of this solemn time of Easter: our Lord dying and rising again. If the person who speaks is Jesus Christ...
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...
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,...
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...
_I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for the Lord sustained me._ GOD’S PROTECTION OF THE HELPLESS The reason why we sleep in peace and rise up in safety is, “the Lord sustained me.” This is one of th...
_But Thou, O Lord, art a shield for me._ A MAN’S BEST CONFIDENCE IN TRIAL These verses show how much a man may have in reality when he seems to have absolutely nothing in appearance. David has descri...
_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...
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
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...
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...
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...
Acts 12:6; Isaiah 26:3; Job 11:18; Job 11:19; Leviticus 26:6;...
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...
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...