Psalms 3:4
I cry unto Jehovah with my voice, And he answereth me out of his holy hill. Selah
American Standard Version
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
3But thou, O Jehovah, art a shield about me; My glory and the lifter up of my head.
5I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for Jehovah sustaineth me.
Cross References
Psalms 2:6Yet I have set my king Upon my holy hill of Zion.
Psalms 22:2O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou answerest not; And in the night season, and am not silent.
Psalms 28:7Jehovah is my strength and my shield; My heart hath trusted in him, and I am helped: Therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; And with my song will I praise him.
Psalms 34:6This poor man cried, and Jehovah heard him, And saved him out of all his troubles.
Psalms 50:15And call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
Psalms 66:17I cried unto him with my mouth, And he was extolled with my tongue.
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 →