Verse 1
PSALM 3
A MORNING PRAYER OF CONFIDENCE
(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.
Many there are that say of my soul,
There is no help for him in God. (Selah)"
The ancient superscriptions found at the beginning of many of the Psalms is included here in parenthesis; and although certain critics have questioned the accuracy of these, as Rawlinson noted, "They have done so without sufficient reason."[1]
There are no less than seventy-three of the Psalms which in their superscriptions have the particular Hebrew words which mean "from David" or "concerning David."[2]
"Selah." This word appears several times in many of the Psalms; but, "This word is of very obscure meaning."[3] It is supposed to have marked certain pauses, or rests, when the Psalms were sung, or occasionally to have indicated certain special points of emphasis.
The glorious teaching of these first two verses lies in the fact that, "Trouble drove David to God in prayer, and not away from God in disbelief."[4]
When disaster threatens and everything seems to have gone wrong, it is never a time for falling into a spirit of bitterness and infidelity, but a time for prayer and a casting of ourselves upon the mercy of God.
No help for him in God. Perhaps the bitterest part of David's trial during the rebellion of Absalom was the opinion of many people, openly expressed, that God had rejected David.
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