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    Psalms · 8 verses

    Psalms 4

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    An urgent prayer pauses to prescribe a bedtime: be angry without sinning, search the heart, and be still. The pause is marked twice with “Selah,” as though even this prayer knows when to put the furniture back.

    A prayer that makes room for stillnessvv. 1–5

    David calls on God, who has already relieved his distress, and asks to be heard again. His complaint turns toward those who malign his honor, love vanity, and pursue lies. Then comes the curious household command: anger may remain, but sin may not; the heart is to be searched on the bed, followed by stillness. Sacrifice and trust close the first movement.

    The answer in the heartvv. 6–8

    Many ask where good may be found, and David answers not with a harvest or a vintage but with the light of the LORD’s face. That light fills his heart with a joy greater than abundance of grain and new wine. The psalm ends in bed again, this time with sleep: the LORD alone makes him dwell in safety.

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    1. Ps 4:1For the choirmaster. With stringed instruments. A Psalm of David. Answer me when I call, O God of my righteousness! You have relieved my distress; show me grace and hear my prayer.

    2. Ps 4:2How long, O men, will my honor be maligned? How long will you love vanity and seek after lies? Selah

    3. Ps 4:3Know that the LORD has set apart the godly for Himself; the LORD hears when I call to Him.

    4. Ps 4:4Be angry, yet do not sin; on your bed, search your heart and be still. Selah

    5. Ps 4:5Offer the sacrifices of the righteous and trust in the LORD.

    6. Ps 4:6Many ask, “Who can show us the good?” Shine the light of Your face upon us, O LORD.

    7. Ps 4:7You have filled my heart with more joy than when grain and new wine abound.

    8. Ps 4:8I will lie down and sleep in peace, for You alone, O LORD, make me dwell in safety.

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    Where this is echoed

    Readers' own connections, from OpenBible's crowd-voted cross-references — agreement about relevance, and not scholarly confidence. 153 passages were voted onto 8 verses of this chapter; the 16 shown lead on votes, and each is listed at the verse it was voted onto most strongly.

    • 8Proverbs 3:24When you lie down, you will not be afraid; when you rest, your sleep will be sweet.
    • 8Psalms 3:5I lie down and sleep; I wake again, for the LORD sustains me.
    • 8Job 11:18–19You will be secure, because there is hope, and you will look around and lie down in safety.
    • 8Psalms 16:8–9I have set the LORD always before me. Because He is at my right hand, I will not be shaken.
    • 81 Thessalonians 5:10He died for us so that, whether we are awake or asleep, we may live together with Him.
    • 12 Corinthians 1:10He has delivered us from such a deadly peril, and He will deliver us. In Him we have placed our hope that He will yet again deliver us,
    • 4Ephesians 4:26“Be angry, yet do not sin.” Do not let the sun set upon your anger,
    • 1Exodus 34:6–7Then the LORD passed in front of Moses and called out: “The LORD, the LORD God, is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion and faithfulness,
    • 8Deuteronomy 12:10When you cross the Jordan and live in the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, and He gives you rest from all the enemies around you and you dwell securely,
    • 3John 15:16You did not choose Me, but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit—fruit that will remain—so that whatever you ask the Father in My name, He will give you.
    • 8Leviticus 25:18–19You are to keep My statutes and carefully observe My judgments, so that you may dwell securely in the land.
    • 8Hosea 2:18On that day I will make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field and the birds of the air and the creatures that crawl on the ground. And I will abolish bow and sword and battle in the land, and will make them lie down in safety.
    • 8Revelation 14:13And I heard a voice from heaven telling me to write, “Blessed are the dead—those who die in the Lord from this moment on.” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “they will rest from their labors, for their deeds will follow them.”
    • 1Psalms 18:18–19They confronted me in my day of calamity, but the LORD was my support.
    • 8Leviticus 26:5Your threshing will continue until the grape harvest, and the grape harvest will continue until sowing time; you will have your fill of food to eat and will dwell securely in your land.
    • 1Psalms 119:132Turn to me and show me mercy, as You do to those who love Your name.

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