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Psalm 3:6 Updated American Standard Version (UASV)
⁶I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people
who have set themselves against me all around.

I will not be afraid. As the result of this new proof of the Divine protection, and in view of all that God has done and has promised, the psalmist now says that he would not be afraid though any number of foes should rise up against him. Perhaps this confiding and exulting spirit may be regarded in some measure as the result of the calm and refreshing slumber that he had enjoyed. The mind, as well as the body, had been refreshed and invigorated. With the bright light of a new morning, he looked with more cheerful views and hopes on the things around him and felt new strength to meet the dangers to which he was exposed. Who in trouble and sorrow has not felt this? Who has not experienced the influence of the slumbers of a night and of the light of the morning in giving new vigor and inspiring new hopes, as if the returning day was an emblem of brighter scenes in life and the passing away of the shades of the night a token that all trouble and sorrow would flee away?

Of ten thousands of people. Myriads:—Though myriads are arrayed against me. He does not, of course, pretend to be exact here, but he felt that the number of his enemies was very great. This was the case in the rebellion of Absalom. Ahithophel proposed to Absalom to “choose out twelve thousand men” with whom he might pursue after David, implying that the number with him was actually much greater than that, (2 Sam. 17:1.)

Who have set themselves against me. That have arrayed themselves against me; or that have risen up in rebellion against me.

All around. Intending to hem me in on every side. Of course, this was to be apprehended in such a rebellion; yet David says that he could now look with calmness on all this, for he had confidence in God. Comp. Ps. 56:3.

By Albert Barnes and Edward D. Andrews