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Brenton's Septuagint

Psalms 3:6

I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people, who beset me round about.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Assurance;   Faith;   Thompson Chain Reference - Confidence, False;   Courage-Fear;   Faith-Unbelief;   Fearlessness;   Host;   Righteous-Wicked;   Worldly;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Assurance;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Psalms, the Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - English Versions;   Jonah;   Psalms;   Sin;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Spirits in Prison;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms the book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Psalms, Book of;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
I will not be afraid of thousands of peoplewho have taken their stand against me on every side.
Hebrew Names Version
I will not be afraid of tens of thousands of people Who have set themselves against me on every side.
King James Version
I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people, that have set themselves against me round about.
English Standard Version
I will not be afraid of many thousands of people who have set themselves against me all around.
New Century Version
Thousands of troops may surround me, but I am not afraid.
New English Translation
I am not afraid of the multitude of people who attack me from all directions.
Amplified Bible
I will not be intimidated or afraid of the ten thousands Who have set themselves against me all around.
New American Standard Bible
I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people Who have set themselves against me all around.
World English Bible
I will not be afraid of tens of thousands of people Who have set themselves against me on every side.
Geneva Bible (1587)
I will not be afrayde for ten thousand of the people, that should beset me round about.
Legacy Standard Bible
I will not be afraid of ten thousands of peopleWho all around have set themselves against me.
Berean Standard Bible
I will not fear the myriads set against me on every side.
Contemporary English Version
Ten thousand enemies attack from every side, but I am not afraid.
Complete Jewish Bible
I lie down and sleep, then wake up again, because Adonai sustains me.
Darby Translation
I will not fear for myriads of the people that have set themselves against me round about.
Easy-to-Read Version
So I will not be afraid of my enemies, even if thousands of them surround me.
George Lamsa Translation
I will not be afraid of thousands of people that have surrounded me and set themselves against me.
Good News Translation
I am not afraid of the thousands of enemies who surround me on every side.
Lexham English Bible
I am not afraid of the ten thousands of people who all around have set themselves against me.
Literal Translation
I am not afraid of myriads of people who have been set against me all around.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
I am not afrayed for thousandes of the people, that copasse me rounde aboute.
American Standard Version
I will not be afraid of ten thousands of the people That have set themselves against me round about.
Bible in Basic English
I will have no fear, though ten thousand have come round me, putting themselves against me.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
I lay me down, and I sleep; I awake, for the LORD sustaineth me.
King James Version (1611)
I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people, that haue set themselues against me round about.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
I wyll not be afrayde of ten thousandes of the people: that haue set [them selues] against me rounde about.
English Revised Version
I will not be afraid of ten thousands of the people, that have set themselves against me round about.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
I slepte, and `was quenchid, and Y roos vp; for the Lord resseyuede me.
Update Bible Version
I will not be afraid of ten thousands of the people That have set themselves against me round about.
Webster's Bible Translation
I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people, that have set [themselves] against me on all sides.
New King James Version
I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people Who have set themselves against me all around.
New Living Translation
I am not afraid of ten thousand enemies who surround me on every side.
New Life Bible
I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people who stand all around against me.
New Revised Standard
I am not afraid of ten thousands of people who have set themselves against me all around.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
I will not be afraid of myriads of people, who, round about, have set themselves against me.
Douay-Rheims Bible
I will not fear thousands of the people surrounding me: arise, O Lord; save me, O my God.
Revised Standard Version
I am not afraid of ten thousands of people who have set themselves against me round about.
Young's Literal Translation
I am not afraid of myriads of people, That round about they have set against me.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people Who have set themselves against me round about.

Contextual Overview

4 I cried to the Lord with my voice, and he heard me out of his holy mountain. Pause. 5 I lay down and slept; I awaked; for the Lord will help me. 6 I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people, who beset me round about. 7 Arise, Lord; deliver me, my God: for thou hast smitten all who were without cause mine enemies; thou hast broken the teeth of sinners. 8 Deliverance is the Lord’s, and thy blessing is upon thy people.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Cross-References

Genesis 3:1
And the two were naked, both Adam and his wife, and were not ashamed.
Genesis 3:2
Now the serpent was the most crafty of all the brutes on the earth, which the Lord God made, and the serpent said to the woman, Wherefore has God said, Eat not of every tree of the garden?
Genesis 3:12
And God said to him, Who told thee that thou wast naked, unless thou hast eaten of the tree concerning which I charged thee of it alone not to eat?
Genesis 3:14
And the Lord God said to the woman, Why hast thou done this? And the woman said, The serpent deceived me and I ate.
Genesis 3:15
And the Lord God said to the serpent, Because thou hast done this thou art cursed above all cattle and all the brutes of the earth, on thy breast and belly thou shalt go, and thou shalt eat earth all the days of thy life.
Genesis 3:17
And to the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy pains and thy groanings; in pain thou shalt bring forth children, and thy submission shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
Genesis 3:19
Thorns and thistles shall it bring forth to thee, and thou shalt eat the herb of the field.
Genesis 6:2
And it came to pass when men began to be numerous upon the earth, and daughters were born to them,
Genesis 39:7
And it came to pass after these things, that his master’s wife cast her eyes upon Joseph, and said, Lie with me.
Joshua 7:21
I saw in the spoil an embroidered mantle, and two hundred didrachms of silver, and one golden wedge of fifty didrachms, and I desired them and took them; and, behold, they are hid in my tent, and the silver is hid under them.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

I will not be afraid of ten thousands of the people,.... David was a man of courage from his youth; the instances of his attacking the lion and the bear, when he kept his father's sheep, his engaging with Goliath, and his military exploits, show it; and though there were now many thousands up in arms against him, and his own son at the head of them; all the tribes of Israel were revolting from him, and he was only attended with a few of his friends, yet he was not dismayed; for that he refers to this insurrection appears by what follows,

that have set [themselves] against me round about; and this was owing not to himself; but to the Lord's sustaining of him; see Psalms 27:1; and such courage and greatness of soul did his antitype the Messiah express, and to a greater degree, when Judas, with his band of soldiers, and the multitude with clubs and staves, entered the garden to apprehend him; and when the prince of this world was marching towards him, and when he was engaged with all the powers of darkness, and when the sorrows of death compassed him about, yet he failed not, nor was he discouraged: and something of this spirit appears in true believers, When they are in the exercise of faith, have the presence of God, and the discoveries of his love; they are then not afraid what man can do unto them; nor are they afraid of devils themselves, but wrestle against them; nor of any nor all their enemies, they having victory over them, given by God through Christ.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I will not be afraid - As the result of this new proof of the divine protection, and in view of all that God has done and has promised, the psalmist now says that he would not be afraid though any number of foes should rise up against him. Perhaps this confiding and exulting spirit may be regarded in some measure as the “result” of the calm and refreshing slumber which he had enjoyed. The mind as well as the body had been refreshed and invigorated. With the bright light of a new morning he looked with more cheerful views and hopes on the things around him, and felt new strength to meet the dangers to which he was exposed. Who in trouble and sorrow has not felt this? Who has not experienced the influence of the slumbers of a night and of the light of the morning, in giving new vigour and inspiring new hopes, as if the returning day was an emblem of brighter scenes in life, and the passing away of the shades of night a token that all trouble and sorrow would flee away?

Of ten thousands of people - Myriads: Though myriads are arrayed against me. He does not, of course, pretend to any exactness here; but he felt that the number of his enemies was very great. This “was” the case in the rebellion of Absalom. Ahithophel proposed to Absalom to “choose out twelve thousand men” with whom he might pursue after David, implying that the number with him was actually much greater than that, 2 Samuel 17:1)

That have set themselves against me - That have arrayed themselves against me; or that have risen up in rebellion against me.

Round about - Intending to hem me in on every side. Of course this was to be apprehended in such a rebellion; yet David says that he could now look with calmness on all this, for he had confidence in God. Compare Psalms 56:3.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 3:6. I will not be afraid of ten thousands — Strength and numbers are nothing against the omnipotence of God. He who has made God his refuge certainly has no cause to fear.


 
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