Psalm 3, Praying The Psalms

Christian Prayer, Praying the Bible. The Priests are putting the bread or the Blessed Sacrement into the heart. Pray along with the Priests. The video protrays Priests Praying in a Catholic Monastery. The music overlay is Monks praying The Psalms & Gregorian Chants. Psalms 3, reminds us that God is the source of our power in times of trouble and all times.

Introduction to the Psalm
This psalm has a number of notable firsts to its credit. 1 It is the first psalm in the collection of psalms ascribed to David (3-41), and is the first of thirteen psalms to bear a superscription giving us historical data about the psalm. Further, it is the first lament psalm, a cry for help. Finally, it is the first psalm to use the term "selah," a term that is probably a musical notation perhaps meaning pause.

It is that historical setting that arrests our attention. David wrote this, in all probability, while actually fleeing for his life from Absalom. As a result of his sin with Bathsheba David was promised trouble in his house. What came he could scarcely have imagined -- his own son Absalom attempted to take the kingdom from him by force (read 2 Samuel 15:6ff for the background here). The situation became so grave that David actually left the walled fortress of Jerusalem to flee across the Jordan river. It was a desperate time. The king did not know who was with him and who was against him, who would come to his side and who would fight against him. All he could do was flee and hope that he would have the time necessary to regroup and get organized. But would he?

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