1 When I cry answer me, O God of my righteousness; Thou hast in straits made space for me: Be gracious to me and hear my prayer. 2 Sons of men! how long shall my glory be mocked, [in that] ye love vanity, [And] seek after a lie? Selah. 3 But know that Jehovah has set apart as His own him whom He favours: Jehovah hears when I cry to Him. 4 Stand in awe, and sin not: Speak in your hearts on your beds, and be silent. Selah. 5 Sacrifice sacrifices of righteousness, And trust on Jehovah. 6 Many are saying, Who will let us see good? Lift Thou upon us the light of Thy face, O Jehovah. 7 Thou hast given gladness in my heart, More than in the time of their corn and their wine [when] they abound. 8 In peace will I lie down and at once sleep: For Thou, Jehovah, in [my] loneliness, makest me dwell in safety. Psalms iii. and iv. are a pair. They are similar in expression (_my glory, there be many which say, I laid me down and slept_), in the psalmist's situation, and in structure (as indicated by the _Selahs_). But they need not be cotemporaneous, nor need the superscription of Psalm iii. be extended to Psalm iv. Their tone is different, the fourth having little reference to the personal danger so acutely felt in Psalm iii., and being mainly a gentle, earnest remonstrance with antagonists, seeking to win them to a better mind. The strophical division into four parts of two verses each, as marked by the Selahs, is imperfectly carried out, as in Psalm iii., and does not correspond with the logical division--a phenomenon which occurs not infrequently in the Psalter, as in all poetry, where the surging thought or emotion overleaps its bounds. Dividing according to the form, we have four strophes, of which the first two are marked by Selah; dividing by the flow of thought, we have three parts of unequal length--prayer (ver. 1), remonstrance (vv. 2-5), communion and prayer (vv. 6-8).