Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Psalms 3:2
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 importance.
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 importance.
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...
: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...
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;...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
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...
OF MY SOUL] i.e. of myself....
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...
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...
_[Psalms 3:3]_ רַבִּים֮ אֹמְרִ֪ים לְ נַ֫פְשִׁ֥י אֵ֤ין...
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...
_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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Psalms 3:2 Many H7227 say H559 (H8802) me H5315 help H3444 God H430 Selah H5542 no -...
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 ...
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...
_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...
_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
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...
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...
2 Samuel 16:7; 2 Samuel 16:8; Habakkuk 3:13; Habakkuk 3:3; Habakkuk 3:9
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...
My soul — Of me: the soul being commonly put for the person. In God — God hath utterly forsaken him. Selah — This word is no where used but in this poetical book, and in the song of Habakkuk. Probably...