Psalms 3

Treated in 4 passages across the library.

The verses these writers stop at

  • 3:3 But you, LORD, are a shield on every side of me. You are my glory, and you lift my head up again. 2
  • 3:5 I lay down and fell asleep, and I woke up again, because the LORD holds me up. 2
  • 3:6 I have no fear of the tens of thousands who have taken up positions against me on every side. 1
  • 3:7 Rise up, LORD! Rescue me, my God! For you have struck all my enemies across the jaw and smashed the teeth of the wicked. 1
  • 3:8 It is the LORD who saves. Let your blessing rest on your people. Selah 1

Open Word Bible

Where it is preached

  1. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

    2.2 The Second Commandment cites Psa 3: 3

    …mercy in preventing many evils from invading us. ‘Thou, O Lord, art a shield for me.’ Psa 3: 3. God has restrained the wrath of men, and been a screen between us and danger; when the…

  2. Institutes of the Christian Religion · John Calvin

    Book 3, Chapter 2 — Of Faith cites Ps. 3:5

    …is elsewhere described: “I laid me down and slept; I awaked, for the Lord sustained me,” (Ps. 3:5). Not that David was uniformly in this joyful frame; but in so far as the measure of his…

  3. A Body of Divinity · Thomas Watson

    Christ's Kingly Office cites Psa 3:3

    …to rule them, so he has a shield to defend them. ‘Thou, O Lord, art a shield for me.’ Psa 3:3. When Antiochus raged furiously against the Jews, took away the vessels of the Lord’s…

  4. The Pilgrim's Progress · John Bunyan

    The Ninth Stage cites Psa. 3:5-8

    …with us, what need we be afraid of ten thousands that shall set themselves against us? Psa. 3:5-8; 27:1-3. But without him, the proud helpers fall under the slain. Isa. 10:4. I, for my…