Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version Many are saying of me, “God will not deliver him.” New Living Translation So many are saying, “God will never rescue him!” Interlude English Standard Version many are saying of my soul, “There is no salvation for him in God.” Selah Berean Standard Bible Many say of me, “God will not deliver him.” Selah King James Bible Many there be which say of my soul, There is no help for him in God. Selah. New King James Version Many are they who say of me, “There is no help for him in God.” Selah New American Standard Bible Many are saying of my soul, “There is no salvation for him in God.” Selah NASB 1995 Many are saying of my soul, “There is no deliverance for him in God.” Selah. NASB 1977 Many are saying of my soul, “There is no deliverance for him in God.” Selah. Legacy Standard Bible Many are saying of my soul, “There is no salvation for him in God.” Selah. Amplified Bible Many are saying of me, “There is no help [no salvation] for him in God.” Selah. Christian Standard Bible Many say about me, “There is no help for him in God.” Selah Holman Christian Standard Bible Many say about me,” There is no help for him in God.” Selah American Standard Version Many there are that say of my soul, There is no help for him in God. [Selah Contemporary English Version me and say, "God won't rescue you!" English Revised Version Many there be which say of my soul, There is no help for him in God. Selah GOD'S WORD® Translation Many are saying about me, "Even with God [on his side], he won't be victorious." [Selah] Good News Translation They talk about me and say, "God will not help him." International Standard Version Many are saying about me, "God will never deliver him!" Interlude Majority Standard Bible Many say of me, “God will not deliver him.” Selah NET Bible Many say about me, "God will not deliver him." (Selah) New Heart English Bible Many there are who say of my soul, "There is no salvation for him in God." Selah. Webster's Bible Translation Many there are who say of my soul, There is no help for him in God. Selah. World English Bible Many there are who say of my soul, “There is no help for him in God.” Selah. Literal Translations Literal Standard VersionMany are saying of my soul, “There is no salvation for him in God.” Selah. Young's Literal Translation Many are saying of my soul, 'There is no salvation for him in God.' Selah. Smith's Literal Translation Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleMany say to my soul: There is no salvation for him in his God. Catholic Public Domain Version New American Bible How many say of me, “There is no salvation for him in God.” Selah New Revised Standard Version many are saying to me, “There is no help for you in God.” Selah Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleMany there are that say to my soul, You have no salvation in your God. Peshitta Holy Bible Translated There are many who say to my soul, "You have no salvation in your God.” OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917Many there are that say of my soul: 'There is no salvation for him in God.' Selah Brenton Septuagint Translation Many say concerning my soul, There is no deliverance for him in his God. Pause. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Deliver Me, O LORD!1A Psalm of David, when he fled from his son Absalom. O LORD, how my foes have increased! How many rise up against me! 2Many say of me, “God will not deliver him.” Selah 3But You, O LORD, are a shield around me, my glory, and the One who lifts my head.… Cross References Matthew 27:43 He trusts in God. Let God deliver Him now if He wants Him. For He said, ‘I am the Son of God.’” Job 2:9 Then Job’s wife said to him, “Do you still retain your integrity? Curse God and die!” Isaiah 36:15-20 Do not let Hezekiah persuade you to trust in the LORD when he says, ‘The LORD will surely deliver us; this city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.’ / Do not listen to Hezekiah, for this is what the king of Assyria says: Make peace with me and come out to me. Then every one of you will eat from his own vine and his own fig tree, and drink water from his own cistern, / until I come and take you away to a land like your own—a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards. ... 2 Kings 18:30-35 Do not let Hezekiah persuade you to trust in the LORD when he says, ‘The LORD will surely deliver us; this city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.’ / Do not listen to Hezekiah, for this is what the king of Assyria says: Make peace with me and come out to me. Then every one of you will eat from his own vine and his own fig tree and drink water from his own cistern, / until I come and take you away to a land like your own—a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees and honey—so that you may live and not die. But do not listen to Hezekiah, for he misleads you when he says, ‘The LORD will deliver us.’ ... Jeremiah 37:9-10 This is what the LORD says: Do not deceive yourselves by saying, ‘The Chaldeans will go away for good,’ for they will not! / Indeed, if you were to strike down the entire army of the Chaldeans that is fighting against you, and only wounded men remained in their tents, they would still get up and burn this city down.” 2 Samuel 16:7-8 And as he yelled curses, Shimei said, “Get out, get out, you worthless man of bloodshed! / The LORD has paid you back for all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose place you have reigned, and the LORD has delivered the kingdom into the hand of your son Absalom. See, you have come to ruin because you are a man of bloodshed!” Lamentations 3:18 So I say, “My strength has perished, along with my hope from the LORD.” Micah 7:10 Then my enemy will see and will be covered with shame—she who said to me, “Where is the LORD your God?” My eyes will see her; at that time she will be trampled like mud in the streets. Luke 23:35 The people stood watching, and the rulers sneered at Him, saying, “He saved others; let Him save Himself if He is the Christ of God, the Chosen One.” John 7:48 “Have any of the rulers or Pharisees believed in Him? John 12:37-38 Although Jesus had performed so many signs in their presence, they still did not believe in Him. / This was to fulfill the word of Isaiah the prophet: “Lord, who has believed our message? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?” Romans 8:31 What then shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 2 Corinthians 1:10 He 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, 2 Timothy 4:16-17 At my first defense, no one stood with me, but everyone deserted me. May it not be charged against them. / But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, so that through me the message would be fully proclaimed, and all the Gentiles would hear it. So I was delivered from the mouth of the lion. Hebrews 7:25 Therefore He is able to save completely those who draw near to God through Him, since He always lives to intercede for them. Treasury of Scripture Many there be which say of my soul, There is no help for him in God. Selah. no Psalm 22:7 All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying, Psalm 42:3,10 My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God? … Psalm 71:11 Saying, God hath forsaken him: persecute and take him; for there is none to deliver him. Selah Psalm 3:4,8 I cried unto the LORD with my voice, and he heard me out of his holy hill. Selah… Psalm 4:2,4 O ye sons of men, how long will ye turn my glory into shame? how long will ye love vanity, and seek after leasing? Selah… Habakkuk 3:3,9,13 God came from Teman, and the Holy One from mount Paran. Selah. His glory covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise… Jump to Previous Deliver Deliverance Help Salvation Selah Soul UnnumberedJump to Next Deliver Deliverance Help Salvation Selah Soul UnnumberedPsalm 3 1. The security of God's protectionMany say of me This phrase highlights the multitude of voices and opinions that surround the psalmist, King David. In the Hebrew text, the word "many" is "רַבִּים" (rabbim), indicating not just a few, but a significant number of people. This reflects the widespread nature of the doubt and opposition David faced. Historically, this psalm is attributed to the time when David fled from his son Absalom, a period of great personal and political turmoil. The phrase underscores the isolation and pressure David felt, as even those who once supported him now questioned his standing with God. 'God will not deliver him.' Selah Selah.--This curious word must apparently remain for ever what it has been ever since the first translation of the Bible was made--the puzzle of ordinary readers, and the despair of scholars. One certain fact about it has been reached, and this the very obscurity of the term confirms. It has no ethical significance, as the Targum, followed by some other of the old versions and by St. Jerome, implies, for in that case it would long ago have yielded a satisfactory meaning. There are many obscure words in Hebrew, but their obscurity arises from the infrequency of their use; but selah occurs no less than seventy-one times in the compass of thirty-nine psalms, and three times in the ode of Habakkuk (Habakkuk 3:3; Habakkuk 3:9; Habakkuk 3:13). It is pretty certain that the sense "for ever," which is the traditional interpretation of the Rabbinical schools, does not suit the majority of these places, and no other moral or spiritual rendering has ever been suggested; nor is it a poetical word, marking the end of a verse or the division into strophes, for it occurs sometimes in the very middle of a stanza, as in Psalm 20:3-4; Psalm 32:4-5; Psalm 52:3-4, and often at the end of a psalm (Psalms 46). There is only one conclusion, now universally admitted, that selah is a musical term, but in the hopeless perplexity and darkness that besets the whole subject of Hebrew music, its precise intention must be left unexplained. The conjecture that has the most probability on its side makes it a direction to play loud. The derivation from salah, "to raise," is in favour of this view. The fact that in one place (Psalm 9:16) it is joined to higgaion, which is explained as a term having reference to the sound of stringed instruments, lends support to it, as also does the translation uniformly adopted in the Psalms by the LXX.: ????????--if, indeed, that word means interlude. It is curious that the interpretation next in favour to Ewald's makes the meaning of selah exactly the opposite to his--piano instead of forte--deriving it from a word meaning "to be silent," "to suspend." . . . Verse 2. - Many there be which say of my soul, There is no help for him in God. When Absalom first raised the standard of revolt, there were no doubt many who looked to see some signal Divine interposition on behalf of the anointed king and against the rebel; but when David fled, and with so few followers (2 Samuel 15:18), and in his flight spoke so doubtfully of his prospects (2 Samuel 15:26), and when no help seemed to arise from any quarter, then we can well understand that men's opinions changed, and they came to think that David was God-forsaken, and would succumb to his unnatural foe (comp. Psalm 71:10, 11). Partisans of Absalom would see in David's expulsion from his capital a Divine Nemesis (2 Samuel 16:8), and regard it as quite natural that God should not help him. Selah. There is no traditional explanation of this word. The LXX. rendered it by διάψαλμα which is said to mean "a change of the musical tone;" but it is against this explanation that selah occurs sometimes, as here, at the end of a psalm, where no change was possible. Other explanations rest wholly on conjecture, and are valueless.Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew Manyרַבִּים֮ (rab·bîm) Adjective - masculine plural Strong's 7227: Much, many, great say אֹמְרִ֪ים (’ō·mə·rîm) Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural Strong's 559: To utter, say of me, לְנַ֫פְשִׁ֥י (lə·nap̄·šî) Preposition-l | Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common singular Strong's 5315: A soul, living being, life, self, person, desire, passion, appetite, emotion “God בֵֽאלֹהִ֬ים (ḇê·lō·hîm) Preposition-b | Noun - masculine plural Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative will not אֵ֤ין (’ên) Adverb Strong's 369: A non-entity, a negative particle deliver him.” יְֽשׁוּעָ֓תָה (yə·šū·‘ā·ṯāh) Noun - feminine singular | third person feminine singular Strong's 3444: Something saved, deliverance, aid, victory, prosperity Selah סֶֽלָה׃ (se·lāh) Interjection Strong's 5542: Suspension, pause Links Psalm 3:2 NIVPsalm 3:2 NLT Psalm 3:2 ESV Psalm 3:2 NASB Psalm 3:2 KJV Psalm 3:2 BibleApps.com Psalm 3:2 Biblia Paralela Psalm 3:2 Chinese Bible Psalm 3:2 French Bible Psalm 3:2 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Psalm 3:2 Many there are who say of my (Psalm Ps Psa.) |
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