And Lord willing, we'll make it to Psalm 6.

These are great Psalms, really looking forward to what the Lord has for us.

So why don't we pray?

We'll ask God's blessing on our time together in His Word.

Father in heaven, would you, at this time, as you're always so faithful to, just settle our hearts and enable us to give you our undivided attention in our time together tonight as we study your word.

Lord, we know that what is before us here in your word

is so powerful and so profound and so sweet from the sweet psalmist of Israel, King David.

So Lord, would you quicken our hearts and minister to our hearts,

especially those here tonight or those maybe watching online who have hurting hearts

that tonight our time in the Psalms will just bring comfort and encouragement.

Lord, as only you can, we ask you to do this in Jesus' name. Amen.

All right, let's jump in. Psalm 4. We didn't get there last week. We ended at Psalm 3, and I'm glad we didn't because I didn't want to rush through Psalm 4.

We're given a title to this Psalm. It's to the chief musician with stringed instruments.

That's the instrumentation. The author is, of course, David, a Psalm of David. So, verse one, hear me when

I call, O God of my righteousness, you have relieved me in my distress. Have mercy on me and hear my

prayer. How long, oh, you sons of men, will you turn my glory to shame?

How long will you love worthlessness and seek falsehood? Selah. And for those of you who weren't

with us last week, this word seilah is found some 73 times in the Psalms.

The only other book in the Bible where you find this word is in the book of Habakkuk, and I think it's there three times.

The basic meaning of the word seilah is to pause, to stop, to consider. And it's

like a refrain in this song, which is what the Psalms are, their songs. So it's kind of like

you catch your breath and you stop and you consider.

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