Psalms 3:4
\3:3\But your strength, O Lord, is round me, you are my glory and the lifter up of my head.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
I cried unto the LORD with my voice, and he heard me out of his holy hill. Selah.
In Context
3\3:2\Unnumbered are those who say of my soul, There is no help for him in God. (Selah.)
Cross References
Psalms 2:6But I have put my king on my holy hill of Zion.
Psalms 22:2\22:1\My God, my God, why are you turned away from me? why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my crying?
Psalms 28:7The Lord is my strength and my breastplate, my heart had faith in him and I am helped; for this cause my heart is full of rapture, and I will give him praise in my song.
Psalms 34:6\34:5\Let your eyes be turned to him and you will have light, and your faces will not be shamed.
Psalms 50:15Let your voice come up to me in the day of trouble; I will be your saviour, so that you may give glory to me.
Psalms 66:17My voice went up to him, and I was lifted up from the underworld.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 3:2-4
Distress and Confidence. 1 Lord , how are they increased that trouble me! many are they that rise up against me. 2 Many there be which say of my soul, There is no help for him in God. Selah. 3 But thou, O Lord , art a shield for me; my glory, and the lifter up of mine head. The title of this psalm and many others is as a key hung ready at the door, to open it, and let us into the entertainments of it; when we know upon what occasion a psalm was penned we know the better how to expound it. This was composed, or at… Read the whole commentary →