--- title: "Psalms 4 - Study King James Bible with keil and delitzsch old testament commentary" description: "Read Psalms 4 with keil and delitzsch old testament commentary commentary. 1 Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness: thou hast enlarged me when I was in distress; have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer. 2 O ye sons of men" image: "/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/keil-and-delitzsch-old-testament-commentary/psalms/4" --- [ Read](/kjv/psalms/4)[ Commentary](/study/psalms/4)[ Interlinear](/interlinear/psalms/4) Audio 1 Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness: thou hast enlarged me *when I was* in distress; have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer.** 2 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. 3 But know that the LORD hath set apart him that is godly for himself: the LORD will hear when I call unto him. 4 Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah. 5 Offer the sacrifices of righteousness, and put your trust in the LORD. 6 *There be* many that say, Who will shew us *any* good? LORD, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us. 7 Thou hast put gladness in my heart, more than in the time *that* their corn and their wine increased. 8 I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, LORD, only makest me dwell in safety. [Psalms 3](/study/psalms/3) [Psalms 5](/study/psalms/5) ## Commentary To verse 1 **(Heb.: 4:2)** Jahve is אלהי צדק , the possessor of righteousness, the author of righteousness, and the vindicator of misjudged and persecuted righteousness. This God of righteousness David believingly calls his God (cf. [Psalms 24:5](/kjv/psalms/24/5); [Psalms 59:11](/kjv/psalms/59/11)); for the righteousness he possesses, he possesses in Him, and the righteousness he looks for, he looks for in Him. That this is not in vain, his previous experience assures him: Thou hast made a breadth (space) for me when in a strait. In connection with this confirmatory relation of בּצּר הרהבתּ לּי it is more probable that we have before us an attributive clause (Hitz.), than that we have an independent one, and at any rate it is a retrospective clause. הרחבת is not precative (Böttch.), for the *perf*. of certainty with a precative colouring is confined to such exclamatory utterances as [Job 21:16](/kjv/job/21/16) (which see). He bases his prayer on two things, viz., on his fellowship with God, the righteous God, and on His justifying grace which he has already experienced. He has been many times in a strait already, and God has made a broad place for him. The idea of the expansion of the breathing (of the stream of air) and of space is attached to the ח , Arab. *ḥ*, of רחב , root רח (*Deutsch. Morgenl*. *Zeitschr*. xii. 657). What is meant is the expansion of the straitened heart, [Psalms 25:17](/kjv/psalms/25/17). [Isaiah 60:5](/kjv/isaiah/60/5), and the widening of a straitened position, [Psalms 18:20](/kjv/psalms/18/20); [Psalms 118:5](/kjv/psalms/118/5). 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