Commentaries and Other Bible Study Helps - Prayer Tents - Prayer Tents

Psalm 4. This psalm expresses quiet trust amid troubling circumstances, combining the categories of individual lament and confidence. Many take this as a companion to Psalm 3, because 4:8 seems to echo 3:5. If there is a connection, the past tense of 3:5 sets it in the morning, while the future tense of 4:8 sets it in the evening; any further connection is speculative.

4:1 Confident Prayer. The recollection of past experience (You have given me relief) between two urgent requests is similar to the rhetoric of 3:7: past experience emboldens the faithful to confident prayer.