Psa 3 | EE | STEP | This is a song of David when he ran away from Absalom his son. LORD, every day I have more enemies. Many people fight me.

Psalms 3

A Morning Song

This is a song of David when he ran away from Absalom his son.

1 LORD, every day I have more enemies.

Many people fight me.

2 Many people say about me,

‘God will not save him.’

SELAH ^{▼▼3:2 Verses 1-2: David calls God by the name LORD. David is a friend of God, so he uses a special name, LORD, with 4 capital letters. In Hebrew, it is YAHWEH. Absalom and his men call God ELOHIM which we translate God. They do not use the special name. Every day more people followed Absalom. Absalom and his people said, ‘God will not save David.’ David was afraid so he prayed for help.}

3 But LORD, you are a shield over me.

You are my glory.

You have lifted up my head. ^{▼▼3:3 Verse 3 tells us that David prayed. He asked the LORD to be a shield over him. David wanted the LORD to hide him from Absalom. David wanted to see the glory of God again. The glory of God is like a light inside God. It shines brighter than the sun! God has this glory because he is holy. David prayed this aloud and the LORD answered him. The holy mountain is Mount Zion, where the Jews thought that God lived. For us it is heaven, God’s home. ‘Lifted up my head’ probably means ‘made me into a king.’
This was about 35 years before.}

4 I shouted aloud to the LORD.

He answered me from his holy mountain.

SELAH

5 I lay down and slept.

I awoke because the LORD kept me alive.

He kept me safe.

6 I will not be afraid of 10000 enemies that are all round me.

7 LORD, stand up! My God, save me!

In the past, you hit all my enemies in the face.

You broke their teeth.

8 It was the LORD that saved us.

LORD, do good things for all your people.

SELAH ^{▼▼3:8 Verses 5-8: The LORD answered David when he prayed. The LORD answered by doing something. He did not say anything. The LORD had already hit the enemies of David in the teeth. This is what you would do to a wild animal. It happened when David became king. David wants it to happen again. He also wants good things to happen to all the people of the LORD.}