Psalms 4:4

Tremble with fear and do not sin! ¹  Meditate as you lie in bed, and repent of your ways! ²  (Selah)

Job 28:28; Ps 2:11; Ps 3:2,4; Ps 33:8; Ps 46:10; Ps 63:6; Ps 77:6; Ps 119:161; Pr 3:7; Pr 16:6,17; Jer 5:22; Hab 2:20; 2Co 13:5; Eph 4:26

¹ sn The psalmist warns his enemies that they need to tremble with fear before God and repudiate their sinful ways.

² tn Heb “say in your heart(s) on your bed(s) and wail/lament.” The verb דֹמּוּ (dommu) is understood as a form of דָמָם (“wail, lament”) in sorrow and repentance. Another option is to take the verb from II דָמָם (damam, “be quiet”); cf. NIV, NRSV “be silent.”