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Psalms 3:4

I cry aloud to the Lord,and he answers me from his holy mountain.Selah

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Prayer;   The Topic Concordance - Hearing;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Psalms, the Book of;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Prayer;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Hill;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - English Versions;   Jonah;   Psalms;   Sin;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms the book of;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Hill;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Cry, Crying;   Omnipresence;   Psalms, Book of;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
I cry to the LORD with my voice, And he answers me out of his holy hill. Selah.
King James Version
I cried unto the Lord with my voice, and he heard me out of his holy hill. Selah.
English Standard Version
I cried aloud to the Lord , and he answered me from his holy hill. Selah
New Century Version
I will pray to the Lord , and he will answer me from his holy mountain. Selah
New English Translation
To the Lord I cried out, and he answered me from his holy hill. (Selah)
Amplified Bible
With my voice I was crying to the LORD, And He answered me from His holy mountain. Selah.
New American Standard Bible
I was crying out to the LORD with my voice, And He answered me from His holy mountain. Selah
World English Bible
I cry to Yahweh with my voice, And he answers me out of his holy hill. Selah.
Geneva Bible (1587)
I did call vnto the Lord with my voyce, & he heard me out of his holy mountaine. Selah.
Legacy Standard Bible
I was calling to Yahweh with my voice,And He answered me from His holy mountain. Selah.
Berean Standard Bible
To the LORD I cry aloud, and He answers me from His holy hill. Selah
Contemporary English Version
I pray to you, and you answer from your sacred hill.
Complete Jewish Bible
But you, Adonai , are a shield for me; you are my glory, you lift my head high.
Darby Translation
With my voice will I call to Jehovah, and he will answer me from the hill of his holiness. Selah.
Easy-to-Read Version
I will pray to the Lord , and he will answer me from his holy mountain. Selah
George Lamsa Translation
I have cried to the LORD with my voice, and he has answered me from his holy mountain.
Good News Translation
I call to the Lord for help, and from his sacred hill he answers me.
Lexham English Bible
With my voice I call to Yahweh and he answers me from his holy hill. Selah
Literal Translation
I cried to Jehovah with my voice, and He heard me out of His holy mountain. Selah.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
I call vpon the LORDE with my voyce, and he heareth me out of his holy hill.
American Standard Version
I cry unto Jehovah with my voice, And he answereth me out of his holy hill. Selah
Bible in Basic English
I send up a cry to the Lord with my voice, and he gives me an answer from his holy hill. (Selah.)
JPS Old Testament (1917)
But thou, O LORD, art a shield about me; my glory, and the lifter up of my head.
King James Version (1611)
I cryed vnto the Lord with my voyce, and he heard me out of his holy hill. Selah.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
I dyd call vpon God with my voyce, and he hearde me out of his holy hyll. Selah.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
I cried to the Lord with my voice, and he heard me out of his holy mountain. Pause.
English Revised Version
I cry unto the LORD with my voice, and he answereth me out of his holy hill. Selah
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
But thou, Lord, art myn vptakere; my glorye, and enhaunsyng myn heed.
Update Bible Version
I cry to Yahweh with my voice, And he answers me out of his holy hill. Selah.
Webster's Bible Translation
I cried to the LORD with my voice, and he heard me from his holy hill. Selah.
New King James Version
I cried to the LORD with my voice, And He heard me from His holy hill.Selah
New Living Translation
I cried out to the Lord , and he answered me from his holy mountain. Interlude
New Life Bible
I was crying to the Lord with my voice. And He answered me from His holy mountain.
New Revised Standard
I cry aloud to the Lord , and he answers me from his holy hill. Selah
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
With my voice - unto Yahweh, do I cry, and he hath answered me out of his holy mountain. Selah.
Douay-Rheims Bible
I have cried to the Lord with my voice: and he hath heard me from his holy hill.
Revised Standard Version
I cry aloud to the LORD, and he answers me from his holy hill. [Selah]
Young's Literal Translation
My voice [is] unto Jehovah: I call: And He answereth me from his holy hill, Selah.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
I was crying to the Lord with my voice, And He answered me from His holy mountain. Selah.

Contextual Overview

4I cry aloud to the Lord,and he answers me from his holy mountain.Selah5I lie down and sleep;I wake again because the Lord sustains me. 6I will not be afraid of thousands of peoplewho have taken their stand against me on every side. 7Rise up, Lord!Save me, my God!You strike all my enemies on the cheek;you break the teeth of the wicked. 8Salvation belongs to the Lord;may your blessing be on your people.Selah

Bible Verse Review
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Cross-References

Genesis 3:13
So the Lord God asked the woman, “What is this you have done?”
Deuteronomy 29:19
When someone hears the words of this oath, he may consider himself exempt, thinking, ‘I will have peace even though I follow my own stubborn heart.’ This will lead to the destruction of the well-watered land as well as the dry land.
2 Kings 1:4
Therefore, this is what the Lord says: You will not get up from your sickbed; you will certainly die.’” Then Elijah left.
2 Kings 1:6
They replied, “A man came to meet us and said, ‘Go back to the king who sent you and declare to him: This is what the Lord says: Is it because there is no God in Israel that you’re sending these men to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron? Therefore, you will not get up from your sickbed; you will certainly die.’”
2 Kings 1:16
Then Elijah said to King Ahaziah, “This is what the Lord says: ‘Because you have sent messengers to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron—is it because there is no God in Israel for you to inquire of his will?—you will not get up from your sickbed; you will certainly die.’”
2 Kings 8:10
Elisha told him, “Go say to him, ‘You are sure to recover.’ But the Lord has shown me that he is sure to die.”
Psalms 10:11
He says to himself, “God has forgotten;he hides his face and will never see.”
2 Corinthians 2:11
so that we may not be taken advantage of by Satan. For we are not ignorant of his schemes.
2 Corinthians 11:3
But I fear that, as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your minds may be seduced from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ.
1 Timothy 2:14
And Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived and transgressed.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

I cried unto the Lord with my voice,.... The experience which the psalmist had of being heard in prayer, was what gave great encouragement to his faith, as to his interest in God and salvation by him, when his enemies were so increased about him; for crying here is to be understood of prayer, as it is often used in this book of Psalms: and so the Targum renders it, "I prayed"; and this designs vocal prayer. Sometimes there is a crying in prayer and no voice heard, as it is said of Moses, Exodus 14:15; and was the case of Hannah, 1 Samuel 1:13; but this was with a voice, and a loud one, as in Psalms 55:17; denoting ardour, fervency, and importunity; and such prayer avails much with God. The object addressed in prayer is the Lord, the God of his life, and who was able to save him, and supply all his wants;

and he heard me out of his holy hill; either out of the church, the holy hill of Zion, Psalms 2:6; where David prayed and God granted his presence, and gave an answer to his prayers; or out from the mercy seat and ark, which was a type of the propitiatory, Christ, and which David had brought to his own city, the hill of Zion; or from heaven, the habitation of God's holiness: David was a man of prayer, and he was often heard and answered by God. And this also is true of Christ, he offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears to God Hebrews 5:7, that was able to save him; and he was heard by him, yea, the Father always heard him: and God is a God hearing and answering the prayers of his people, sooner or later: sometimes before, sometimes at, and sometimes after their crying to him.

Selah; on this word, Hebrews 5:7- :.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I cried unto the Lord - That is, in these troubles, as he had always done in affliction. The form of the verb here is future - “I will cry” or call unto the Lord; probably, however, designed to state a general habit with him, that when troubles came he always called on the Lord. He speaks now of himself as if in the midst of the trouble; gives utterance to the feeling which he has always had in his sorrows; and says, “I will call upon the Lord,” thus declaring his purpose to make his appeal confidently to him. Thus, the language is not so much retrospective as it is indicative of the uniform state of his mind in the midst of afflictions.

With my voice - Not merely mentally, but he gave utterance to the deep anguish of his soul in words. So the Saviour did in the garden of Gethsemane Matthew 26:39; and so, perhaps, most persons do in deep affliction. It is natural then to cry out for help; and besides the fact that we may hope that any prayer then, though mental only, would bring relief by being answered, there is a measure of relief found by the very act of giving utterance or vent to the deep and, as it were, pent-up feelings of the soul. In calmer times we are satisfied with unuttered aspirations, with gentle ejaculations, with sweet mental communion with God; in overwhelming trials we give utterance to our feelings in the earnest language of pleading.

And he heard me - Or, “then he hears me;” that is, when I call. The psalmist refers to what he had constantly found to be true, that God was a hearer of prayer.

Out of his holy hill - Zion. See the notes at Psalms 2:6. That was the place to which David had removed the ark, and which was regarded, therefore, as the special dwelling-place of the Most High. To him, as dwelling in Zion, prayer was accustomed to be offered, and there he was accustomed to answer prayer. To this fact David here refers as one that had been illustrated in his former days. To that God who had thus answered him he felt that he might confidently appeal now.

Selah - Indicating another strophe or musical pause. See the notes at Psalms 3:2.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 3:4. I cried unto the Lord with my voice — He was exposed to much danger, and therefore he had need of fervour.

He heard me — Notwithstanding my enemies said, and my friends feared, that there was no help for me in my God; yet he heard me out of his holy hill. Selah: mark this, and take encouragement from it. God never forsakes those who trust in him. He never shuts out the prayer of the distressed.


 
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