Psalms 4:8
I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for you, LORD, only make me dwell in safety.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, LORD, only makest me dwell in safety.
In Context
7You have put gladness in my heart, more than in the time that their corn and their wine increased.
Cross References
Leviticus 25:18Wherefore all of you shall do my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them; and all of you shall dwell in the land in safety.
Deuteronomy 12:10But when all of you go over Jordan, and dwell in the land which the LORD your God gives you to inherit, and when he gives you rest from all your enemies round about, so that all of you dwell in safety;
Job 11:18And you shall be secure, because there is hope; yea, you shall dig about you, and you shall take your rest in safety.
Psalms 16:8I have set the LORD always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
Proverbs 3:24When you lie down, you shall not be afraid: yea, you shall lie down, and your sleep shall be sweet.
Ezekiel 34:25And I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause the evil beasts to cease out of the land: and they shall dwell safely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 4:7-8
The Good Man's Desire. 6 There be many that say, Who will show us any good? Lord , lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us. 7 Thou hast put gladness in my heart, more than in the time that their corn and their wine increased. 8 I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, Lord , only makest me dwell in safety. We have here, I. The foolish wish of worldly people: There be many that say, Who will show us any good? Who will make us to see good? What good they meant is intimated, v. 7 . It was the… Read the whole commentary →