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Verse Psalms 3:7. _ARISE, O LORD_] Though he knew that God had
undertaken his defence, yet he knew that his continued protection
depended on his continual prayer and faith. God never ceases to help
as...
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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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ARISE, O LORD - This is a common mode of calling upon God in the
Scriptures, as if he had been sitting still, or had been inactive. It
is, of course, language taken from human conceptions, for in the...
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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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UNGODLY. lawless. Hebrew. _rasha'._ App-44....
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ARISE, O LORD, &C.— David having related in the former verses the
state of his mind during his flight, in the following he expresses his
thankfulness to God for his deliverance, which he ascribes enti...
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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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_ARISE, O LORD; SAVE ME, O MY GOD: FOR THOU HAST SMITTEN ALL MINE
ENEMIES UPON THE CHEEK BONE; THOU HAST BROKEN THE TEETH OF THE
UNGODLY._
Arise ... save me. What thou hast done for me heretofore is...
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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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ARISE, O LORD] The ancient marching-song of the Hebrew host began with
these words (Numbers 10:35)....
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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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THOU HAST SMITTEN... BROKEN. — Better, _thou smitest_... _breakest._
The enemies are conceived of as wild beasts, like the lion and bear of
the adventures of David’s own youth, whom God would render h...
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_[Psalms 3:8]_ ק֘וּמָ֤ה יְהוָ֨ה ׀
הֹושִׁ֘יעֵ֤נִי אֱלֹהַ֗י כִּֽי...
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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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How charming both these verses! Ten thousands opposed to one poor man
become a mighty army! But millions against us, when God is on our
side, are as nothing. Oh! for faith in the Lord, and in the powe...
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7_Arise, O Lord. _As in the former verses David boasted of his quiet
state, it would now appear he desires of the Lord to be preserved in
safety during the whole of his life; as if he had said, Lord,...
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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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ARISE, O LORD; SAVE ME, O MY GOD,.... God sometimes, in the
apprehension of his people, seems to be as if he was asleep: when he
does not appear to them and for them, and does not exert his power on
t...
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Arise, O LORD; save me, O my God: for thou hast smitten all mine
enemies [upon] the cheek bone; thou hast broken the teeth of the
ungodly.
Ver. 7. _Arise, O Lord, &c._] If the Lord do but arise only...
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_Arise, O Lord, save me_ Defer no longer, but let them see thou hast
not forsaken me; _O my God_ Who art mine by special relation and
covenant: Lord, save thy own. Deliver me from these my rebellious...
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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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Arise, O Lord; save me, O my God! a confident cry to Jehovah to
interfere now in the happenings of the world; FOR THOU HAST SMITTEN
ALL MINE ENEMIES UPON THE CHEEK BONE; THOU HAST BROKEN THE TEETH OF...
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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...
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ARISE; bestir thyself on my behalf, and be no longer as an idle
spectator of my miseries. O MY GOD; who art mine by special relation
and covenant, and I am thy son and thy servant; Lord, save thine ow...
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Psalms 3:7 Arise H6965 (H8798) LORD H3068 Save H3467 (H8685) God H430
struck H5221 (H8689) enemies...
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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...
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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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_Thou hast smitten all mine enemies upon the cheek bone._
THE SECRET OF DAVID’S CONFIDENCE
This shows that David’s expectation of victory was not in himself,
in his personal prowess as a warrior, but...
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PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 3:7 ARISE. Compare Numbers 10:35. FOR YOU
STRIKE... YOU BREAK. David can boldly ask God for help because God has
often pr
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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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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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Habakkuk 2:19; Isaiah 51:9; Job 16:10; Job 29:17; Lamentations 3:30;...
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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...
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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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Cheek bone — Which implies contempt and reproach. Teeth — Their
strength and the instruments of their cruelty. He compares them to
wild beasts....