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Save Me, O My God
A Psalm of David, when he fled from Absalom his son.
1 O Lord, how many are my foes!
Many are rising against me;
2 many are saying of my soul,
“There is no salvation for him in God.” Selah
3 But you, O Lord, are a shield about me,
my glory, and the lifter of my head.
4 I cried aloud to the Lord,
and he answered me from his holy hill. Selah
5 I lay down and slept;
I woke again, for the Lord sustained me.
6 I will not be afraid of many thousands of people
who have set themselves against me all around.
7 Arise, O Lord!
Save me, O my God!
For you strike all my enemies on the cheek;
you break the teeth of the wicked.
8 Salvation belongs to the Lord;
your blessing be on your people! Selah
Notes and references
3:1 2 Sam. 15:12
3:1 2 Sam. 18:31, 32
3:2 Ps. 71:11; [ 2 Sam. 16:8 ]
The meaning of the Hebrew word Selah, used frequently in the Psalms, is uncertain. It may be a musical or liturgical direction
3:3 Ps. 28:7; 84:9; 119:114; Gen. 15:1
3:3 Job 1:10
3:3 Ps. 27:5, 6; [Job 10:15]
3:4 Ps. 77:1; 142:1
3:4 Ps. 34:4; 60:5; 108:6; [Ps. 6:8; 34:6]
3:4 See Ps. 2:6
3:5 Ps. 4:8; [Lev. 26:6; Job 11:18, 19; Prov. 3:24]
3:6 [Ps. 23:4; 27:3]
3:6 Isa. 22:7; [1 Kgs. 20:12]
3:7 Ps. 7:6; 9:19; 10:12; Num. 10:35
3:7 See Job 16:10
3:7 Ps. 58:6; Job 29:17
3:8 Ps. 37:39; 62:7; Isa. 43:11; 45:21; Jer. 3:23; Hos. 13:4; Jonah 2:9; Rev. 7:10; 19:1