Psalms 4:1
When I cry, answer me, O mine own righteous God, In a strait place, thou hast made room for me, Show me favour, and hear my prayer.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
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1 Samuel 17:37And David said, Yahweh, who hath rescued me out of the power of the lion, and out of the power of the bear, he, will rescue us out of the hand of this Philistine. Then said Saul unto David—Go! and, Yahweh, will be with thee.
1 Samuel 23:26And Saul went on this side of the mountain, and, David and his men, on that side of the mountain,—wherefore David became hurried, to get away from the presence of Saul, but, Saul and his men, were surrounding David and his men, to capture then:
Job 36:16Yea he might even have allured thee—out of the mouth of straitness, [into] a wide space—no narrowness there,—and, the food set down on thy table, should have been full of fatness.
Psalms 11:7For righteous is Yahweh Righteousness, he loveth, the upright, shall behold his face.
Psalms 18:18They confronted me, in the day of my necessity, Then became Yahweh my stay:
Psalms 24:5Shall bear away a blessing from Yahweh, and righteousness, from his delivering God.
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 →