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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...
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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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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...
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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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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...
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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...
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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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_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...
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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...
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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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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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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...
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_[Psalms 3:9]_ לַ יהוָ֥ה הַ יְשׁוּעָ֑ה עַֽל...
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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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(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....
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_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.)
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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...
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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...
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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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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...
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_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...
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_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...
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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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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...
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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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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,...
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Psalms 3:8 Salvation H3444 LORD H3068 blessing H1293 people H5971
Selah H5542
Salvation - Psalms 37:39-40;...
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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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_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...
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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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1 Peter 3:9; Acts 3:26; Acts 4:12; Ephesians 1:3; Hebrews 6:14;...
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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...