Psalms 4:8 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁸I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, LORD, only makest me dwell in safety.

Psalms 4:8 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 3:24
When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid: yea, thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet.
Psalms 3:5
I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for the LORD sustained me.
Job 11:18-19
And thou shalt be secure, because there is hope; yea, thou shalt dig about thee, and thou shalt take thy rest in safety. …
Psalms 16:8-9
I have set the LORD always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved. …
1 Thessalonians 5:10
Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.

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Commentary

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

(vv. 6-8)

We have here, I. The foolish wish of worldly people: There be many that say, Who will show us any good? Who will make us to see good? What good they meant is intimated, Ps. 4:7. It was the increase of their corn and wine; all they desired was plenty of the wealth of this world, that they might enjoy abundance of the delights of sense. Thus far they are right, that they are desirous of good and sol…

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

(vv. 8)

8. both lay me down, &c.--or, will lie down at once, and sleep in sure confidence and quiet repose (Psa 3:5).