Psalms 3:1
O LORD, how my foes have increased! How many rise up against me!
2 Many say of me, “God will not deliver him.” Selah
3 But You, O LORD, are a shield around me, my glory, and the One who lifts my head.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- O LORD, how my foes have increased! How many rise up against me!
- KJV
- LORD, how are they increased that trouble me! many are they that rise up against me.
- WEB
- LORD, how my adversaries have increased! Many are those who rise up against me.
- ASV
- Jehovah, how are mine adversaries increased! Many are they that rise up against me.
- DARBY
- {A Psalm of David, when he fled from Absalom his son.} Jehovah, how many are they that trouble me, many they that rise up against me!
- BLB
- A Psalm of David, in his fleeing from the face of Absalom his son. <span class=|reftext|><a href=|#|><b>1</b></a> O YHWH, how many are my adversaries! Many [are] rising up against me!
- ÅB
- Herre, jeg har så mange fiender!
Mange reiser seg imot meg. - OTB
- Herre, hvor mange mine fiender har blitt!
Mange reiser seg mot meg. - B1930
- Herre, hvor mange mine fiender er! Mange reiser sig imot mig.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 17:7
Show the wonders of Your loving devotion, You who save by Your right hand those who seek refuge from their foes.
Read in context2 Samuel 17:11–13
Instead, I advise that all Israel from Dan to Beersheba—a multitude like the sand on the seashore—be gathered to you, and that you yourself lead them into battle.
Read in context2 Samuel 16:15
Then Absalom and all the men of Israel came to Jerusalem, and Ahithophel was with him.
Read in context2 Samuel 15:1–18
Some time later, Absalom provided for himself a chariot with horses and fifty men to run ahead of him.
Read in contextMatthew 27:25
All the people answered, “His blood be on us and on our children!”
Read in contextMatthew 10:21
Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; children will rise against their parents and have them put to death.
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