Psalms 4:1
To the Overseer with Stringed Instruments. — A Psalm of David. In my calling answer Thou me, O God of my righteousness. In adversity Thou gavest enlargement to me; Favour me, and hear my prayer.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
2Sons of men! till when [is] my glory for shame? Ye love a vain thing, ye seek a lie. Selah.
Cross References
1 Samuel 17:37And David saith, 'Jehovah, who delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, He doth deliver me from the hand of this Philistine.' And Saul saith unto David, 'Go, and Jehovah is with thee.'
1 Samuel 23:26And Saul goeth on this side of the mountain, and David and his men on that side of the mountain, and David is hastened to go from the face of Saul, and Saul and his men are compassing David and his men, to catch them.
Job 36:16And also He moved thee from a strait place, [To] a broad place — no straitness under it, And the sitting beyond of thy table Hath been full of fatness.
Psalms 11:7For righteous [is] Jehovah, Righteousness He hath loved, The upright doth His countenance see!'
Psalms 18:18They go before me in a day of my calamity And Jehovah is for a support to me.
Psalms 24:5He beareth away a blessing from Jehovah, Righteousness from the God of his salvation.
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 →