the Week of Proper 22 / Ordinary 27
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Psalms 3:8
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Salvation belongs to Yahweh;Your blessing be upon Your people! Selah.
Salvation belongs to the Lord ; Your blessing be upon Your people! Selah.
Saluation is of God: thy blessing is vpon thy people. Selah.
Salvation is of Jehovah; thy blessing is upon thy people. Selah.
Salvation belongs to the LORD. Your blessing is upon Your people.Selah
Salvation belongs to Jehovah. Your blessing is on Your people. Selah.
Lord , the victory is yours! You are so good to your people. Selah
Salvation belongs to Yahweh. Your blessing be on your people. Selah.
Saluation belongeth vnto the Lord: thy blessing is vpon thy people. Selah.
Helpe belongeth vnto the LORDE, therfore let thy blessynge be vpon thy people.
Real help comes from God . Your blessing clothes your people!
Salvation belongeth unto Jehovah: Thy blessing be upon thy people. Selah
Salvation comes from the Lord; your blessing is on your people. (Selah.)
Salvation belongs to Yahweh: Your blessing be on your people. Selah.
Salvation [belongeth] to the LORD: thy blessing [is] upon thy people. Selah.
The Lord delivers; you show favor to your people. (Selah)
because you protect and bless your people.
Rise up, Adonai ! Save me, my God! For you slap all my enemies in the face, you smash the teeth of the wicked. Victory comes from Adonai ; may your blessing rest on your people. (Selah)
Saluation belongeth vnto the Lorde, and thy blessing is vpon thy people. Selah.
For salvation belongs to the LORD; and thy blessing is upon thy people.
Salvation belongs to the LORD; May Your blessing be upon Your people. Selah.
Salvation belongs to the LORD. Your blessing be on your people. Selah.
Arise, O LORD; save me, O my God; for Thou hast smitten all mine enemies upon the cheek, Salvation belongeth unto the LORD; Thy blessing be upon Thy people. Selah
Victory comes from you, O Lord . May you bless your people. Interlude
It is You Who saves, O Lord. May You bring happiness to Your people.
Deliverance is the Lord’s, and thy blessing is upon thy people.
Salvation belongeth unto the LORD: thy blessing be upon thy people. Selah
Salvation belongs to the LORD; may Your blessing be on Your people. Selah
Deliverance belongs to the Lord ; may your blessing be on your people! Selah
To Yahweh, belongeth Salvation! Upon thy people, be thy blessing. Selah.
Salvation is of the Lord: and thy blessing is upon thy people.
To Yahweh belongs deliverance; may your blessing be over your people. Selah
Salvation belongs to the Lord ; your blessing be on your people! Selah
Salvation belongs to the LORD; May Your blessing be upon Your people! Selah
The Lord can save his people. Lord , bless your people. Selah
Victory comes from the Lord — may he bless his people.
Salvation belongs to the Lord ; may Your blessing be on Your people.
Helthe is of the Lord; and thi blessyng, Lord, is on thi puple.
Of Jehovah [is] this salvation; On Thy people [is] Thy blessing! Selah.
Deliverance belongs to the LORD; thy blessing be upon thy people! [Selah]
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
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Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:
But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
And the Lord God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?
And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.
And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.
Unto Adam also and to his wife did the Lord God make coats of skins, and clothed them.
And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:
Did ever people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, and live?
Now therefore why should we die? for this great fire will consume us: if we hear the voice of the Lord our God any more, then we shall die.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Salvation [belongeth] unto the Lord,.... As the author of it; temporal salvation is of him; all the deliverances of the saints out of their troubles are from him; and to him is owing their spiritual and eternal salvation; this belongs to Jehovah, Father, Son, and Spirit: Jehovah the Father resolved upon it, chose men to it from everlasting, contrived the scheme of it in his infinite wisdom, made a covenant with his Son, in which he secured it, and appointed him to be the author of it, and sent him in the fulness of time to effect it; and Christ the Son of God, being qualified for it, being mighty to save, came into this world for that purpose, and is become the author of eternal salvation; his own arm has brought it to him, though there were many difficulties in the way; such as fulfilling the law, satisfying justice, making an end of sin, grappling with all the powers of darkness, and undergoing an accursed death: and the Spirit of God, he makes men sensible of their need of this salvation; he brings it near to them, and works faith in them to lay hold upon it, and shows them their interest in it; and in consequence of all this the glory of salvation belongs to the Lord, Father, Son, and Spirit, and should be given to the Father as the contriver of it, to the Son as the author of it, and to the Spirit as the applier of it; see Revelation 7:10;
thy blessing [is] upon thy people; or it may be considered prayer wise, let "thy blessing [be] upon thy people" b; either upon those that were on the side of David, or on those, as others interpret it, who had imprudently joined themselves to Absalom; which latter sense, if right, shows in what a divine frame and disposition of mind the psalmist was, to pray for his enemies: or the words are an assertion, that the blessing of the Lord was come upon his covenant people, and does descend upon them as they are called by grace; even all spiritual blessings, the blessings of a justifying righteousness, of pardon of sin, of reconciliation and peace by the blood of Christ, of adoption, and of eternal life; the blessing of grace, and the blessing of glory.
Selah; on this word, Revelation 7:10- :.
b ברכתך "sit benedictio tua", Junius & Tremellius, Tarnovius, Gejerus, Michaelis.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Salvation belongeth unto the Lord - That is, it pertains to God alone to save. The psalmist had no expectation of saving himself; he had no confidence in the unaided prowess of his own arm. If he was to be saved he felt that it was to be only by God, and the praise of this was to be given to Him. The particular reference here is to temporal deliverance, or deliverance from the dangers which surrounded him then; but the declaration is as true of spiritual deliverance - of the salvation of the soul - as it is of deliverance from temporal danger. In both cases it is true that God only saves, and that all the praise is due to him.
Thy blessing is upon thy people - Or perhaps, rather, “thy blessing be upon thy people,” regarding this as a “prayer” rather than an “affirmation.” It is true, indeed, as an affirmation (compare Psalms 2:12); but it accords better with the connection here, and is a more appropriate conclusion of the psalm to regard it as a petition, expressing an earnest desire that the blessing of God might ever rest upon his own people. Then the thoughts of the psalmist are turned away from his own perils to the condition of others; from his individual case to that of the Church at large; and he prays that all others may find the same favors from God which he had so richly enjoyed, and which he hoped still to enjoy. It is one of the characteristics of true piety thus to turn from our own condition to that of others, and to desire that what we enjoy may be partaken of by the people of God everywhere.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 3:8. Salvation belongeth unto the Lord — It is God alone who saves. He is the fountain whence help and salvation come; and to him alone the praise of all saved souls is due. His blessing is upon his people. Those who are saved from the power and the guilt of sin are his people. His mercy saved them; and it is by his blessing being continually upon them, that they continue to be saved. David adds his selah here also: mark this!
1. Salvation comes from God.
2. Salvation is continued by God.
These are great truths; mark them!
ANALYSIS OF THE THIRD PSALM
The occasion of this Psalm was Absalom's rebellion. David being deserted by his subjects, railed on by Shimei, pursued for his crown and life by his ungracious son, and not finding to whom to make his moan, betakes himself to his God; and before him he expostulates his wrong, confesses his faith, and makes his prayer.
There are three strains of this accurate Psalm: I. His complaint. II. The confession of his confidence. III. His petition.
I. He begins with a sad and bitter complaint, amplified,
1. By the number and multitude of his enemies. They were many, very many; they were multiplied and increased: "All Israel was gathered together from Dan to Beer-sheba, as the sand of the sea for multitude;" 2 Samuel 17:11.
2. From their malice they came together to do him mischief. They rose up, not for him, but against him; not to honour, but to trouble him; not to defend him as they ought, but to take away his crown and life; 2 Samuel 17:2.
3. From their insults and sarcasm. It was not Shimei only, but many, that said it: "Many - say there is no help for him in his God."
II. The second part of the Psalm sets forth David's confidence: -
1. To their multitude, he opposeth ONE GOD. But THOU, O LORD!
2. To their malicious insurrection, Jehovah; who, he believed, 1. Would be a buckler to receive all the arrows shot against him. 2. His glory, to honour, though they went about to dishonour, him. 3. The lifter up of his head, which they wished to lay low enough.
3. To their vain boast of desertion, There is no help for him in his God, he opposeth his own experience, "I cried unto the Lord, and he heard me."
4. By whose protection being sustained and secured, he deposes all care and fear, all anxiety and distraction. 1. He sleeps with a quiet mind: "I laid me down and slept, I awoke." 2. He sings a requiem: "I will not be afraid of ten thousands of the people, that have set themselves against me round about."
III. In the close, or third part, he petitions and prays, notwithstanding his security: "Arise, O Lord; save me, O my God!" To move God to grant his request, he thankfully reminds him of what he had done before: -
1. "Arise and save me, for thou hast smitten all mine enemies." Thou art the same God: do then the same work; be as good to thy servant as ever thou hast been.
2. He inserts an excellent maxim: Salvation belongeth unto the Lord. As if he had said, It is thy property and prerogative to save. If thou save not, I expect it from none other.
3. Lastly, as a good king should, in his prayers he remembers his subjects. He prayed for those who were using him despitefully: Thy blessing be upon thy people! To the same sense, Coverdale, in his translation.
