Psalm 3 Analysis

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The book of Psalms is personally one of my favorite books in the bible. There is a psalm for any occasion or hardship you need, psalms is a book of poetry so every psalm flows nicely together making for easy reading. As I said previously the psalms have flowing poetry, the words and verses of the psalms describe human prayers so they make easy and relatable prayers. One of the Psalms I find most interesting is psalm three because it deals with doubts of the Lord. Psalm three presents an occasion where many different interpretations of the meaning occurs. Psalm three can either be interpreted as an account of King David's life or of simply someone putting their full faith in the Lord.

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I think that verse two through three means that people have lost their faith and trust in the lord, they refuse to believe in his endless love for. According to the King James Bible Online, it says “An active believer, the more he is beaten off from God, either by the rebukes of providence, or the reproaches of enemies, the faster hold he will take, and the closer will he cleave to him. A child of God startles at the very thought of despairing of help in God. See what God is to his people, what he will be, what they have found him, what David found in him.” about psalm 3:2. This interpretation, I believe, is similar to my own. We both say that the subject of the psalm is scared or fearful of a life without the Lord. In another source, Bible Gateway, it says “A child of God startles at the very thought of despairing of help in God”. A true child of God will never despair or lose faith in the Lord. Faith is the total trust in something you don’t know for one hundred percent

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