Psalms 4:1

Answer my cry, God, my defender. Often from straits you have brought me to spacious places. So now show me your favor and hear my prayer.

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In The King James Version

Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness: thou hast enlarged me when I was in distress; have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer.

In Context

2How long, you proud people, will my honor be stained by the slanders you love, and the lies that you follow? Selah

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Cross References

Psalms 11:7For the Lord is just, and justice he loves; so the upright will see his face.

Psalms 18:18In my day of distress they assailed me, but the Lord proved my support.

Psalms 24:5they win from the Lord a blessing: God is their champion and savior.

Matthew Henry on Psalms 4:1

David was a preacher, a royal preacher, as well as Solomon; many of his psalms are doctrinal and practical as well as devotional; the greatest part of this psalm is so, in which Wisdom cries to men, to the sons of men (as Prov. viii. 4, 5 ), to receive instruction. The title does not tell us, as that of the former did, that it was penned on any particular occasion, nor are we to think that all the psalms were occasional, though some were, but that many of them were designed in general for the instruction of the… Read the whole commentary →

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