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Literal Standard Version

Psalms 3:4

My voice [is] to YHWH: I call and He answers me from His holy hill, 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

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

4My voice [is] to YHWH: I call and He answers me from His holy hill, Selah.5I have lain down, and I sleep, || I have awoken, for YHWH sustains me. 6I am not afraid of myriads of people, || That they have set against me all around. 7Rise, O YHWH! Save me, my God! For You have struck all my enemies [on] the cheek. You have broken the teeth of the wicked. 8This salvation [is] of YHWH; Your blessing [is] on Your people! Selah.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Cross-References

Genesis 3:13
And YHWH God says to the woman, "What [is] this you have done?" And the woman says, "The serpent has caused me to forget, and I eat."
Deuteronomy 29:19
and it has been, in his hearing the words of this oath, that he has blessed himself in his heart, saying, I have peace, though I go on in the stubbornness of my heart—in order to sweep away the watered with the thirsty.
2 Kings 1:4
And therefore, thus said YHWH: The bed to where you have gone up, you do not come down from it, for you certainly die"; and Elijah goes on.
2 Kings 1:6
And they say to him, "A man has come up to meet us and says to us, Go, return to the king who sent you, and you have said to him, Thus said YHWH: Is it because there is not a God in Israel—you are sending to inquire of Ba‘al-Zebub god of Ekron? Therefore, the bed to where you have gone up, you do not come down from it, for you certainly die."
2 Kings 1:16
and speaks to him, "Thus said YHWH: Because that you have sent messengers to inquire of Ba‘al-Zebub god of Ekron—is it because there is not a God in Israel to inquire of His word? Therefore, the bed to where you have gone up—you do not come down from it, for you certainly die."
2 Kings 8:10
And Elisha says to him, "Go, say, You certainly do not revive, seeing [that] YHWH has showed me that he surely dies."
Psalms 10:11
He said in his heart, "God has forgotten, || He has hid His face, || He has never seen."
2 Corinthians 2:11
that we may not be over-reached by Satan, for we are not ignorant of his schemes.
2 Corinthians 11:3
and I fear, lest, as the serpent deceived Eve in his subtlety, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that [is] in the Christ;
1 Timothy 2:14
and Adam was not deceived, but the woman, having been deceived, came into transgression,

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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