LORD, how are they increased that trouble me! many are they that rise up against me.
Psalm 3:1 belongs to David's flight during Absalom's rebellion, when his own son and many of his subjects had turned against him. It expresses David's distress as his enemies multiply and rise against him. It reports that those troubling him have greatly increased and that many have risen up against him. It is a prayer of distress that lays the scale of that danger before God. The verses that follow show his response to that multitude of foes: despite their numbers he put his confidence in God. That God protected and sustained him through the night and freed him from fear.
Psalm 3:1 belongs to David's flight during Absalom's rebellion, when his own son and many of his subjects had turned against him. It expresses David's distress as his enemies multiply and rise against him. It reports that those troubling him have greatly increased and that many have risen up against him. It is a prayer of distress that lays the scale of that danger before God. The verses that follow show his response to that multitude of foes: despite their numbers he put his confidence in God. That God protected and sustained him through the night and freed him from fear.