Psalms 3:5

"I laid me down and slept;

I awaked; for Jehovah sustaineth me.

I will not be afraid of ten thousands of the people.

That have set themselves against me round about."

This mention of lying down to sleep and awakening are the basis for naming this Psalm "A Morning Prayer." This appears to me to be a rather insufficient grounds for such a name; but still we do not object to it. It has been used as a morning reading by countless people in all ages.

"They have set themselves against me." "According to Kay, this is a military expression, as used in Isaiah 22:7."[5] The background of this Psalm is given in 2 Samuel 15-16.

Before leaving these verses, it is appropriate to remember that no one knows when he goes to sleep, whether or not he shall ever awaken, and that only the blessing of God enables the sleeper to wake up. As a Medical doctor stated it, "No one ever draws his first breath without God's blessing; and it is also true of every other breath throughout life"!