Psalms 3
1 Yahweh, I have many enemies [DOU]! There are many people who oppose/rebel against me.
A Psalme of Dauid, when he fled from his sonne Absalom. Lord, howe are mine aduersaries increased? howe many rise against me?
2 Many people are saying about me, “God will [certainly] not help him!”
Many say to my soule, There is no helpe for him in God. (Selah)
3 But Yahweh, you are like a shield [that protects me] [MET]. You greatly honor me, and you encourage me (OR, enable me to triumph over my enemies) [IDM].
But thou Lord art a buckler for me: my glory, and the lifter vp of mine head.
4 I cry out to you, Yahweh, and you answer me from [Zion], your sacred hill.
I did call vnto the Lord with my voyce, and he heard me out of his holy mountaine. (Selah)
5 [At night] I lie down and sleep, and I awake [in the morning feeling good/refreshed] because you, Yahweh, (take care of/protect) me [all during the night].
I layed me downe and slept, and rose vp againe: for the Lord susteined me.
6 There may be thousands of [enemy] soldiers who surround me, but I am not afraid.
I will not be afrayde for ten thousand of the people, that should beset me round about.
7 Yahweh, arise! My God, [come and] rescue me [again]! You [insult] my enemies by slapping them on their cheeks; [when you strike them], you break their teeth, [with the result that they cannot hurt anyone] [MET].
O Lord, arise: helpe me, my God: for thou hast smitten all mine enemies vpon the cheeke bone: thou hast broken the teeth of the wicked.
8 Yahweh, you are the one who saves your people [from their enemies]. Yahweh, bless your people!
Saluation belongeth vnto the Lord, and thy blessing is vpon thy people. (Selah)
