Vertaling Bijbel, Kanttekeningen SV, [], Ik [9]lag neder en sliep; ik ontwaakte, want de HEERE ondersteunde mij. 9. Deze manier van spreken betekent een gerusten, zekeren, heiligen staat, dat men zonder bekommernis is van gevaar en schade, hebbende voor God een goede conscientie, en op Hem alle zorg werpende; zie Lev.26:6; Job 11:19, onder hfdst.4 vs.9; Spreuk.3:23; Ezech.34:25.
, [], Ruth FIDLER, A Touch of Support: Ps 3,6 and the Psalmist's Experience , Vol. 86(2005) 192-212.
Vv. 5-6 mark a turning point in Psalm 3, both structurally
and thematically, probably reflecting a significant personal experience. Due to
the mention of sleeping and waking (v. 6a) this experience is sometimes
interpreted as a dream in which the psalmist got word of his imminent
deliverance. Recently supported by a Qumran parallel that mentions dreaming
explicitly (11QPsa xxiv 16-17;B. Schroeder,
Biblica 81 [2000] 243-251), this argument nevertheless
seems questionable, given e.g. the tendency of later Judaism to attribute dreams
also to biblical figures that are not characterized in such terms in the Bible.
The main thrust of this article is to examine the psalm in comparison with
theophanic reports elsewhere in the Bible and in ANE literature. This analysis
shows the language of Psalm 3 to be compatible with an incubatory ritual that
culminates in a real experience of presence with a divine gesture of support.
These findings are related to the proximity to God that finds expression in the
psalms.