Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Psalms 3:8
(d) Salvation [belongeth] unto the LORD: thy blessing [is] upon thy people. Selah.
(d) No matter how great or many the dangers may be, yet God always has ways to deliver his.
(d) Salvation [belongeth] unto the LORD: thy blessing [is] upon thy people. Selah.
(d) No matter how great or many the dangers may be, yet God always has ways to deliver his.
Verse Psalms 3:8. _SALVATION_ BELONGETH _UNTO THE LORD_] It is God alone who saves. He is the fountain whence help and salvation come; and to him alone the praise of all saved souls is due. His bless...
: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...
SALVATION BELONGETH UNTO THE LORD - That is, it pertains to God alone to save. The psalmist had no expectation of saving himself; he had no confidence in the unaided prowess of his own arm. If he was...
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...
SALVATION. deliverance, same word as "help", Psalms 3:2. THY BLESSING IS. Thy blessing hast been, and wilt be: i.e. whatever may happen to me. In this spirit he sends back the Ark (2 Samuel 15:25. SE...
SALVATION BELONGETH UNTO THE LORD, &C.— This should rather be rendered, _Salvation be unto the Lord; thy blessing be unto thy people:_ It shews David's generosity of heart, thus to become an intercess...
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...
_SALVATION BELONGETH UNTO THE LORD: THY BLESSING IS UPON THY PEOPLE. SELAH._ Salvation belongeth unto the Lord - as its sole Possessor and Dispenser (Jonah 2:9; Proverbs 21:31, end; Jeremiah 3:23). I...
SALVATION _belongeth_ UNTO THE LORD] A triumphant assertion of what the adversaries denied in Psalms 3:2. THY BLESSING _IS_] RV 'thy blessing be' upon the people as upon their leader. SELAH] see on Ps...
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...
THY BLESSING... — Rather, _let thy blessing be upon thy people._ It is not the statement of a fact, but an intercessory prayer. The true Shepherd of His people was a noble and generous man. This close...
_[Psalms 3:9]_ לַ יהוָ֥ה הַ יְשׁוּעָ֑ה עַֽל...
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...
_Without cause. Hebrew, "on the jaw." (Haydock) --- Without redress. (Calmet) --- Septuagint seems to have read leinom, as "some Jews say that the ancient copies were different." (Origen, A.D. 231.) ...
See Reader what a blessed joyful conclusion! What could open more gloomy and discouraging than this Psalm did! What can end more triumphant and joyful! But do not fail to trace the whole to its source...
8._Salvation belongeth unto the Lord. _Because ל is sometimes used by the Hebrews for מך _Min, _some not improperly translate this clause, _Salvation is of the Lord. _I, however consider the natural a...
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...
SALVATION [BELONGETH] UNTO THE LORD,.... As the author of it; temporal salvation is of him; all the deliverances of the saints out of their troubles are from him; and to him is owing their spiritual a...
_Salvation [belongeth] unto the LORD: thy blessing [is] upon thy people. Selah._ Ver. 8. _Salvation belongeth unto the Lord_] Here is much in few. Fulgentius saith, that the most golden sentence is e...
_Salvation belongeth unto God_ I expect not salvation from my counsels or forces, but from thy power and favour alone. _Thy blessing is_ Or rather, _let it be; upon thy people_ Either upon my friends...
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...
Salvation belongeth unto the Lord, He can and will help in every trouble, for there is no limit to the power at His disposal. THY BLESSING IS UPON THY PEOPLE. David prays not only for his own delivera...
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 expect not salvation from my forces, but from thy power and favour alone. THY BLESSING IS, or rather, let it be, (so he closeth with a prayer,) UPON THY PEOPLE; either upon my friends and followers,...
Psalms 3:8 Salvation H3444 LORD H3068 blessing H1293 people H5971 Selah H5542 Salvation - Psalms 37:39-40;...
HIS PRAYER FOR DELIVERANCE, AND CRY FOR BLESSING ON HIS PEOPLE. ‘Arise, O YHWH, save me, O my God, For you have smitten all my enemies on the cheekbone You have broken the teeth of the wicked.' Dav...
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...
_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...
_Selah._ STOP AND THINK That seems to sum up the several meanings of the word “Selah.” Some say it is a direction to the musicians to play an interlude while the singers ceased; some regard it as a d...
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 3:8 SALVATION BELONGS TO THE LORD. It is the decision of the Lord, not of the enemies (v. Psalms 3:2), that makes the difference.
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...
1 Peter 3:9; Acts 3:26; Acts 4:12; Ephesians 1:3; Hebrews 6:14;...
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...