Psalms 3:4
I cry to the LORD with my voice, and he answers me out of his holy hill. Selah.
World English Bible Classic
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 you, LORD, are a shield around me, my glory, and the one who lifts up my head.
5I laid myself down and slept. I awakened, for the LORD sustains me.
Cross References
Psalms 2:6“Yet I have set my King on my holy hill of Zion.”
Psalms 22:2My God, I cry in the daytime, but you don’t answer; in the night season, and am not silent.
Psalms 28:7The LORD is my strength and my shield. My heart has trusted in him, and I am helped. Therefore my heart greatly rejoices. With my song I will thank him.
Psalms 34:6This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.
Psalms 50:15Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me.”
Psalms 66:17I cried to him with my mouth. 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 →