{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Daily Psalms - Classical Psalms Every Day","title":"Psalm Chapter 3","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":68,"description":"Psalm 3: The Man Who Slept Through the SiegeDavid is running for his life. His own son Absalom has turned the kingdom against him, and the whispers have become a chorus: there is no help for him in God. It is exactly the sort of moment where faith either proves itself or collapses entirely. And what does David do? He sleeps. \"I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for the Lord sustained me.\" There is perhaps no more radical act of trust in all the Psalms than this — a man surrounded by ten thousand enemies who closes his eyes and rests. Not because the danger is imaginary, but because the shield is real. The Lord, David says, is not merely a protector but \"the lifter up of mine head.\" That phrase catches something no fortress can provide: dignity in the midst of humiliation, composure when everything conspires to make you frantic. The psalm begins in crisis and ends in confidence, and the distance between those two is exactly the length of a prayer.00:00 Enemies on Every Side00:14 No Help in God, They Say00:24 The Lord My Shield00:36 I Laid Me Down and Slept00:48 Salvation Belongs to the Lord","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/C2WseAXS5mwLSdrov_M_2jK4yq73Ie3qsXM5YHymD9c/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8zYTI4/MzVhZWJjYTI1MDMy/ODg4MTI5NzlhMDg5/NmY2ZS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}