Read Psalm 4 here (text coming …) or at Bible Gateway.
The Hebrew paragraphs:
4:1-8 {p} YHVH sets apart the godly for Himself, and hears them
Psalm 4:1-8 forms a Chiastic Structure:
Notice that the answer to the prayer doesn’t involve a lessening in the love of either vanity or falsehood among the sons of men. The answer isn’t in a change in outward circumstances. But in this answer, God puts gladness in the heart, and peace in the heart, so that the godly man now sleeps in peace, rather than being in anxious turmoil because of distress. The increase of the sons of men has not diminished, but his safety has grown. For the source of the security of the sons of men is in their material increase, a fickle thing at best; but the source of his own security is in YHVH, who is constant, unflagging, and sure.
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