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Iאֲנִיlay downשָׁכַבְתִּיand slept;וָאִישָׁנָהI awoke,הֱקִיצוֹתִיforכִּיYHWHיְהוָהsustains me.יִסְמְכֵנִי
Psalms 3:5
Study it in the app“I lay down and slept; I awoke, for YHWH sustains me.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Psalms 3:5, word by word
- lay downשָׁכַבְתִּיshachavti
lie down
To lie down to sleep or rest.
Where else “shachavti” appears- and sleptאִישָׁנָishana
sleep
To fall asleep, or sleep the sleep of death.
Where else “ishana” appears- I awokeהֱקִיצוֹתִיhekitsoti
awake
To awake, to wake up from sleep.
Where else “hekitsoti” appears- YHWHיְהוָהyehva
YHWH
The personal name of the God of Israel, written in Hebrew with four letters, Y-H-W-H, without vowels. Out of reverence Jews stopped pronouncing it and read "Adonai" (Lord), so many Bibles put "the LORD" or "Jehovah". This translation keeps the four letters. The name is related to the verb "to be" (Exodus 3:14-15). He is not a god other than Elohim: "YHWH Elohim" is the same Creator God, called by his name.
Where else “yehva” appears- sustains meיִסְמְכֵyismche
lean on
To rest one's weight on something or someone so as not to fall; to support.
Where else “yismche” appears
The context
4With my voice to YHWH I call, and he answers me from his holy mountain. Selah.
5 · This verse (above)
6I will not fear the tens of thousands of the people who have set themselves against me all around.