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Psalms 3:1
A psalm of David, written when he fled from his son Absalom.
Lord , how numerous are my enemies! Many attack me.Bible Study Resources
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Lord, how my foes increase!There are many who attack me.
<> LORD, how my adversaries have increased! Many are those who rise up against me.
Lord, how are they increased that trouble me! many are they that rise up against me.
A Psalm of David, when he fled from Absalom his son.
O Lord , how many are my foes! Many are rising against me;David sang this when he ran away from his son Absalom.
Lord , I have many enemies! Many people have turned against me.O LORD, how my enemies have increased! Many are rising up against me.
LORD, how my enemies have increased! Many are rising up against me.
<> Yahweh, how my adversaries have increased! Many are those who rise up against me.
A Psalme of Dauid, when he fled from his sonne Absalom. Lorde, howe are mine aduersaries increased? howe many rise against me?
O Yahweh, how my adversaries have become many!Many are rising up against me.
A Psalm of David, when he fled from his son Absalom. O LORD, how my foes have increased! How many rise up against me!
(Written by David when he was running from his son Absalom.)
I have a lot of enemies, Lord . Many fight againstA psalm of David, when he fled from Avshalom his son:
A Psalm of David, when he fled from Absalom his son.
Jehovah, how many are they that trouble me, many they that rise up against me!A song of David written during the time he was running from his son Absalom.
Lord , I have so many enemies. So many people have turned against me.O LORD, how my oppressors are increased! Many are they that rise up against me.
I have so many enemies, Lord , so many who turn against me!
A psalm of David at his fleeing from the presence of Absalom, his son.
Yahweh, how many are my enemies; many are rising against me.A Psalm of David, when he fled from his son Absalom O Jehovah, how my adversaries have multiplied! Many are the ones who rise against me.
Why are they so many (o LORDE) yt trouble me? a greate multitude are they, that ryse agaynst me.
A Psalm of David, when he fled from Absalom his son.
Jehovah, how are mine adversaries increased! Many are they that rise up against me.Lord, how greatly are they increased who make attacks on me! in great numbers they come against me.
A Psalm of David, when he fled from Absalom his son.
[A Psalme of Dauid when he fled from Absalom his sonne.] Lord, how are they increased that trouble mee? many are they that rise vp against me.
O God howe are myne enemies increased? many do ryse vp against me.
O Lord, why are they that afflict me multiplied? many rise up against me.
A Psalm of David, when he fled from Absalom his son. LORD, how are mine adversaries increased! many are they that rise up against me.
The title of the thridde salm. `The salm of Dauid, whanne he fledde fro the face of Absolon, his sone.
A Psalm of David, when he fled from Absalom his son. Yahweh, how are my adversaries increased! Many are those that rise up against me.
A Psalm of David, when he fled from Absalom his son. LORD, how are they multiplied that trouble me? many [are] they that rise up against me.
LORD, how they have increased who trouble me! Many are they who rise up against me.
A psalm of David, regarding the time David fled from his son Absalom.
O Lord , I have so many enemies; so many are against me.O Lord, how many are they who hate me! How many rise up against me!
A Psalm of David, when he fled from his son Absalom.
O Lord , how many are my foes! Many are rising against me;Yahweh! how have mine adversaries multiplied, Multitudes, are rising against me;
<The psalm of David when he fled from the face of his son Absalom.> (3:1)
A Psalm of David, when he fled from Absalom his son. O LORD, how many are my foes! Many are rising against me;
A Psalm of David, in his fleeing from the face of Absalom his son. Jehovah, how have my distresses multiplied! Many are rising up against me.
A David Psalm, When He Escaped for His Life from Absalom, His Son God ! Look! Enemies past counting! Enemies sprouting like mushrooms, Mobs of them all around me, roaring their mockery: "Hah! No help for him from God!"
A Psalm of David, when he fled from Absalom his son.
O Lord , how my adversaries have increased! Many are rising up against me.Contextual Overview
A psalm of David, written when he fled from his son Absalom.
Lord , how numerous are my enemies! Many attack me. 2 Many say about me, "God will not deliver him." (Selah) 3 But you, Lord , are a shield that protects me; you are my glory and the one who restores me.Bible Verse Review
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So the Lord God said to the woman, "What is this you have done?" And the woman replied, "The serpent tricked me, and I ate."
And I will put hostility between you and the woman and between your offspring and her offspring; her offspring will attack your head, and you will attack her offspring's heel."
For if they fall, one will help his companion up, but pity the person who falls down and has no one to help him up.
At that time the Lord will punish with his destructive, great, and powerful sword Leviathan the fast-moving serpent, Leviathan the squirming serpent; he will kill the sea monster.
The tempter came and said to him, "If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become bread."
and said to him, "If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down. For it is written, ‘ He will command his angels concerning you ' and ‘ with their hands they will lift you up, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone .'"
And he said to him, "I will give you all these things if you throw yourself to the ground and worship me."
"I am sending you out like sheep surrounded by wolves, so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves.
And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light.
Husbands, in the same way, treat your wives with consideration as the weaker partners and show them honor as fellow heirs of the grace of life. In this way nothing will hinder your prayers.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Lord, how are they increased that trouble me?.... David's enemies increased in the conspiracy against him, 2 Samuel 15:12; the hearts of the men of Israel were after Absalom, and against him. Christ's enemies increased when Judas with a multitude came to take him; when the body of the common people cried out, Crucify him; when the assembly of the wicked enclosed him, and pierced his hands and his feet. And the enemies of God's people are many; the men of this world are against them; legions of devils oppose them; and they have swarms of sins in their own hearts; and all these give trouble. David's enemies troubled him; he wept as he went up the hill, to think that his own son should seek to destroy him; that his subjects, whom he had ruled so long with clemency, and had hazarded his person in war for their defence, and to protect them in their civil and religious rights, should rebel against him. Christ's enemies troubled him, when they bound and led him away as a malefactor; when they spit upon him, smote and buffeted him; when they scourged and crucified him, and mocked at him. The enemies of the saints are troublers of them; in the world, and from the men of it, they have tribulation; Satan's temptations give them much uneasiness and distress; and their indwelling sins cause them to cry out, "Oh wretched men that we are!" This address is made to the Lord, as the Lord God omniscient, who knew the case to be as it was, and who had a concern in it not being without his will, but according to it, he having foretold it, and as he who only could help out of it: and the psalmist delivers it in a complaining way, and in an expostulatory manner; reasoning the case why it should be so, what should be the reason of it, for what end and purpose it was; and as wondering at it, suggesting his own innocence, and how undeserving he was to be treated in such a way;
many [are] they that rise up against me; many in quantity, and great in quality, great in the law, in wisdom, in riches, and in stature, as Jarchi interprets it; such as Ahithophel and others, who rose up against David in an hostile manner, to dispossess him of his kingdom, and to destroy his life. And many were they that rose up against Christ; the multitude came against him as a thief, with clubs and staves: the men of this world rise up against the saints with their tongues, and sometimes with open force and violence; Satan, like a roaring lion, seeks to devour them, and their own fleshly lusts war against them.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
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A Psalm of David - literally, belonging to David; that is, belonging to him as the author. This is marked in the Hebrew as the first verse, and so in the Syriac version, the Latin Vulgate, and the Septuagint, making in the Hebrew, and in each of these versions, nine verses in the psalm instead of eight, as in our translation. This may have been prefixed to the psalm by the author himself, for it was not uncommon in ancient times for an author to prefix his name to his own composition, as is commonly done by the apostle Paul in his epistles. It is not absolutely certain, however, that this was done in the Psalms by the authors themselves, but it may have been done by him who collected and arranged the Psalms, indicating the prevalent belief in regard to the authorship, and under the Spirit of inspiration.
When he fled - On the occasion of his fleeing. That is, it was composed at that time, or was subsequently composed in remembrance of it. See Introduction, Section 2.
From Absalom his son - See the introduction, Section 2.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
PSALM III
David complains, in great distress, of the number of his
enemies, and the reproaches they cast on him, as one forsaken
of God, 1, 2;
is confident, notwithstanding, that God will be his protector,
3;
mentions his prayers and supplications, and how God heard him,
4, 5;
derides the impotent malice of has adversaries, and foretells
their destruction, 6, 7;
and ascribes salvation to God, 8.
NOTES ON PSALM III
This is said to be A Psalm of David, when he fled from Absalom his son. — See the account, 2 Samuel 15:1, c. And David is supposed to have composed it when obliged to leave Jerusalem, passing by the mount of Olives, weeping, with his clothes rent, and with dust upon his head. This Psalm is suitable enough to these circumstances and they mutually cast light on each other. If the inscription be correct, this Psalm is a proof that the Psalms are not placed in any chronological order.
The word Psalm, מזמור mizmor, comes from זמר zamar, to cut, whether that means to cut into syllables, for the purpose of its being adapted to musical tones, or whether its being cut on wood, c., for the direction of the singers what we would call a Psalm in score. This last opinion, however, seems too technical.
Verse Psalms 3:1. Lord, how are they increased that trouble me? — We are told that the hearts of all Israel went after Absalom, 2 Samuel 15:13; and David is astonished to find such a sudden and general revolt. Not only the common people, but his counsellors also, and many of his chief captains. How publicly does God take vengeance for the sins which David committed so privately! In the horrible rebellion of Absalom we see the adultery of Bath-sheba, and the murder of Uriah. Now the words of Nathan begin to be fulfilled: "The sword shall not depart from thy house."
