Psalms 3:2 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²Many there be which say of my soul, There is no help for him in God. Selah.

Psalms 3:2 —

Old words in this verse

selah: — a pause or musical mark (meaning uncertain).

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 71:11
Saying, God hath forsaken him: persecute and take him; for there is none to deliver him.
Psalms 42:3
My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?
Psalms 42:10
As with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where is thy God?
Psalms 22:7
All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,
Psalms 4:4
Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-3)

The title of this psalm and many others is as a key hung ready at the door, to open it, and let us into the entertainments of it; when we know upon what occasion a psalm was penned we know the better how to expound it. This was composed, or at least the substance of it was meditated and digested in David’s thought, and offered up to God, when he fled from Absalom his son, who formed a conspiracy a…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 2)

2. say of my soul--that is, “of me” (compare Psa 25:3). This use of “soul” is common; perhaps it arose from regarding the soul as man’s chief part. no help ... in God--rejected by Him. This is the bitterest reproach for a pious man, and denotes a spirit of malignant triumph. Selah--This word is of very obscure meaning. It probably denotes rest or pause, both as to the music and singing, intimating…