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Psalm 3 Douay-Rheims (Challoner), American Edition 1899

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Notes on this text (2)
DRB Douay-Rheims (Challoner), American Edition 1899
WEB World English Bible (Classic, with Deuterocanon)
1 The psalm of David when he fled from the face of his son Absalom.
1 Not in this translation
2 Why, O Lord, are they multiplied that afflict me? many are they who rise up against me.
1 A Psalm by David, when he fled from Absalom his son. Yahweh, how my adversaries have increased! Many are those who rise up against me.
3 Many say to my soul: There is no salvation for him in his God.
2 Many there are who say of my soul, “There is no help for him in God.” Selah.
4 But thou, O Lord art my protector, my glory, and the lifter up of my head.
3 But you, Yahweh, are a shield around me, my glory, and the one who lifts up my head.
5 I have cried to the Lord with my voice: and he hath heard me from his holy hill.
4 I cry to Yahweh with my voice, and he answers me out of his holy hill. Selah.
6 I have slept and taken my rest: and I have risen up, because the Lord hath protected me.
5 I laid myself down and slept. I awakened, for Yahweh sustains me.
7 I will not fear thousands of the people, surrounding me: arise, O Lord; save me, O my God.
6 I will not be afraid of tens of thousands of people who have set themselves against me on every side.
8 For thou hast struck all them who are my adversaries without cause: thou hast broken the teeth of sinners.
7 Arise, Yahweh! Save me, my God! For you have struck all of my enemies on the cheek bone. You have broken the teeth of the wicked.
9 Salvation is of the Lord: and thy blessing is upon thy people.
8 Salvation belongs to Yahweh. May your blessing be on your people. Selah.
Cross references (9)

Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info. References use English (Hebrew-based) verse numbers; links open the passage in DRB.

  1. 1 Psalm 17:7; 2 Samuel 17:11–13; 2 Samuel 16:15; 2 Samuel 15:1–18; Matthew 27:25
  2. 2 Psalm 17:7; 2 Samuel 17:11–13; 2 Samuel 16:15; 2 Samuel 15:1–18; Matthew 27:25
  3. 3 Psalm 71:11; Psalm 42:3; Psalm 42:10; Psalm 22:7; Psalm 4:4
  4. 4 Psalm 27:6; Psalm 28:7; Genesis 15:1; Psalm 119:114; Isaiah 60:19
  5. 5 Psalm 34:4; Psalm 91:15; Isaiah 65:24; Psalm 34:6; Psalm 2:6
  6. 6 Psalm 4:8; Proverbs 3:24; Leviticus 26:6; Isaiah 26:3; Job 11:18–19
  7. 7 Romans 8:31; Psalm 27:1–3; Psalm 118:10–12; Psalm 23:4; 2 Kings 6:15–17
  8. 8 Psalm 58:6; Job 29:17; Job 16:10; Psalm 59:5; Psalm 10:12
  9. 9 Isaiah 43:11; Jonah 2:9; Psalm 37:39–40; Revelation 7:10; Hosea 13:4

Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences

What the Fathers said

Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).

How these were chosen

“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).

  1. Commentary Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms (Psalm III)

    The words, "I slept, and took rest; and rose, for the Lord will take me up," lead us to believe that this Psalm is to be understood as in the Person of Christ; for they sound more applicable to the Passion and Resurrection of our Lord, than to that history in which David's flight is described from the face of …

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)

  2. Quotes verse 3:5 Justin Martyr, First Apology (Chapters XXXIII–XXXVIII)

    And I lay down and slept, and rose again, because the Lord sustained Me." And again, when He says, "They spake with their lips, they wagged the head, saying, Let Him deliver Himself." And that all these things happened to Christ at the hands of the Jews, you can ascertain.

    Read in context · Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1 (1885)

  3. Quotes verse 3:5 Irenaeus of Lyons, Against Heresies (Book IV, Chapter XXXII)

    Those of them, again, who spoke of His having slumbered and taken sleep, and of His having risen again because the Lord sustained Him, and who enjoined the principalities of heaven to set open the everlasting doors, that the King of glory might go in, proclaimed beforehand His resurrection from the dead through the Father's power, and His reception into …

    Read in context · Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1 (1885)

  4. Quotes verse 3:3 Augustine of Hippo, The City of God (Book XIV, Chapters 27–28)

    The one lifts up its head in its own glory; the other says to its God, "Thou art my glory, and the lifter up of mine head." In the one, the princes and the nations it subdues are ruled by the love of ruling; in the other, the princes and the subjects serve one another in love, the latter obeying, …

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)

  5. Quotes verse 3:5 Augustine of Hippo, The City of God (Book XVII, Chapters 17–18)

    For what else is it that is sung in His person in the 3d Psalm, "I laid me down and took a sleep, [and] I awaked, for the Lord shall sustain me?" Is there perchance any one so stupid as to believe that the prophet chose to point it out to us as something great that He had slept and …

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)