Psalm 4/Notes/Summary.v. 2.954048

The psalm opens, already assuming a previous time of distress. “When I called out, the God who makes things right for me answered me!” The nature of the distress is nowhere explicit, but that is common for possibly all psalms and at times especially those specified as for the director, because it makes the psalm readily applicable to many kinds of distress. When we look closely at Psalm 4, it seems that the initial distress that prompted the psalm was most likely a lack of rain, because the joy mentioned comes after the harvest, the time when the grain and new wine abound.