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Psalms 3:5–6
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Psalms 3:5
5I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for the Lord sustained me.
5*I layd me downe and slept; I awaked, for the LORD sustained me.
- Psal.4.9.
Psalms 3:6
6I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people, that have set themselves against me round about.
6*I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people, that haue set themselues against me round about.
- Psal.27.3.
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DEFINED WORDS
Psalms 3:5
Placed, set down, imposed, or arranged.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
From a higher place or position to a lower one; below.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Rested in sleep; or by figure lay in death.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To cease sleeping, or to arouse from sleep or inactivity.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828
LORD: The name of God the Father in English, from the Hebrew Tetragrammaton YHWH, also rendered GOD and JEHOVAH. Lord: A title applied to God and Christ as ruler and master, the one to whom worship and obedience are due. lord: A male master, owner, ruler, or superior addressed or described as one having authority.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (alignment witness) · Webster 1828
Supported, upheld, or kept in life.
Meaning drawn from: Cawdrey 1604 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
DEFINED WORDS
Psalms 3:6
Fearful or apprehensive.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Persons collectively; a nation, community, or group considered as a body.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To place, fix, appoint, establish, or prescribe; also fixed or determined.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Opposed to, contrary to, facing, toward, or in contact with; in some settings, exposed to or ready for a stated time.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
Around, concerning, near, or engaged in; on every side or approximately, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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From verse 5
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Open the full verse study8I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, Lord, only makest me dwell in safety.
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Open the full verse study24When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid: yea, thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet.
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Open the full verse study3Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.
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Open the full verse study6And I will give peace in the land, and ye shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid: and I will rid evil beasts out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your land.
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Open the full verse study18And thou shalt be secure, because there is hope; yea, thou shalt dig about thee, and thou shalt take thy rest in safety.
19Also thou shalt lie down, and none shall make thee afraid; yea, many shall make suit unto thee.
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Open the full verse study10The name of the Lord is a strong tower: the righteous runneth into it, and is safe.
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Open the full verse study2It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep.
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Open the full verse study26In the fear of the Lord is strong confidence: and his children shall have a place of refuge.
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Open the full verse study9Which holdeth our soul in life, and suffereth not our feet to be moved.
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Open the full verse study6And when Herod would have brought him forth, the same night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains: and the keepers before the door kept the prison.
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Open the full verse study31What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?
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Open the full verse study1THE Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
2When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.
3Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident.
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Open the full verse study10All nations compassed me about: but in the name of the Lord will I destroy them.
11They compassed me about; yea, they compassed me about: but in the name of the Lord I will destroy them.
12They compassed me about like bees; they are quenched as the fire of thorns: for in the name of the Lord I will destroy them.
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Open the full verse study4Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
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Open the full verse study15And when the servant of the man of God was risen early, and gone forth, behold, an host compassed the city both with horses and chariots. And his servant said unto him, Alas, my master! how shall we do?
16And he answered, Fear not: for they that be with us are more than they that be with them.
17And Elisha prayed, and said, Lord, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see. And the Lord opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.
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Open the full verse study7The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.
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Open the full verse study7Where the people of Israel were slain before the servants of David, and there was there a great slaughter that day of twenty thousand men.
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Open the full verse study2Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea;
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Open the full verse study2The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his anointed, saying,
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