George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Psalms 144:4
And. Hebrew, "to generation." The vocation of the Gentiles is insinuated. (Calmet)
And. Hebrew, "to generation." The vocation of the Gentiles is insinuated. (Calmet)
Verse Psalms 144:4. _MAN IS LIKE TO VANITY_] אדם להבל דמה _Adam lahebel damah_, literally, _Adam is like to Abel_, exposed to the same miseries, accidents, and murderers; for in millions of cases the...
MAN IS LIKE TO VANITY - See the notes at Psalms 39:5; Psalms 62:9. The idea here is, that man can be compared only with that which is utterly vain - which is emptiness - which is nothing. HIS DAYS ARE...
PSALM 143-145 In Psalms 143:1 the enemy is mentioned again, the enemy who pursued David. “For the enemy has persecuted my soul; he has smitten my life down to the ground; he has made me to dwell in da...
CXLIV. Ascribed by LXX and also by T. to David against Goliath, but without any shadow of reason. Psalms 144:1 is really a mosaic chiefly taken from Psalms 18, but also from Psalms 8, 33, 104. It is a...
MAN. Hebrew. _'adam._ App-14....
From the enthusiastic contemplation of Jehovah's goodness the Psalmist turns to reflect upon the character of the object of it. Man's insignificance and transitoriness enhance the marvel of God's grac...
_vanity_ Or, a breath, unsubstantial and evanescent (a different word from that in Psalms 144:8_; Psalms 144:11_). Cp. Psalms 39:5; Psalms 39:11
LORD, WHAT IT MAN, &C.?— This is spoken in rapture; reflecting on the regard that God had shewn to his petition, which, in his usual way, he repeats in the very words in the four next verses....
PSALMS 144 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE From David's Psalms are Selected Strains, by one of his Sons, Emboldening him to Plead for Deliverance from Foreigners. An Appendix anticipates Happy Times. ANALYSIS St...
Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away. MAN IS LIKE TO VANITY (HEBREW, hebel (H1892 ), A VAPOUR): HIS DAYS ARE AS A SHADOW THAT PASSETH AWAY - (Psalms 62:9;...
144:4 Man (a-1) _ Adam_ . vanity; (b-5) Or 'a breath,' as Psalms 62:9 ; Psalms 94:11 . see Note b, Genesis 4:2 . in vers; 8,11 the word is as 'falsehood' in...
This Ps. consists mainly of thoughts and quotations from earlier Pss., e.g. 8 and 18. Psalms 144:12 are, however, quite unlike anything else in the Psalter, and some suppose them to be a quotation fro...
Psalms 107:150 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ WE *BLESS GOD AND GOD *BLESSES US! PSALMS 144 Jesus said, "(God will) *bless people that are good. They will see God" ...
VANITY... SHADOW. — See Psalms 39:5; Psalms 102:11. The occasion of the introduction of these sentiments here is not quite clear. It may be the humility of the warrior who ascribes all success to God...
אָ֭דָם לַ † הֶ֣בֶל דָּמָ֑ה יָ֝מָ֗יו כְּ...
Psalms 144:1 THE force of compilation could no further go than in this psalm, which is, in the first eleven verses (Psalms 144:1)simply a _ rechauffe_ of known psalms, and in Psalms 144:12 is most pro...
GOD'S PEOPLE ARE HAPPY Psalms 144:1-15 This psalm savors of the rocky caverns from which David and his men emerged to fight. Each day the chieftain asked God to teach him to fight, and realized t...
This is a song of triumphant assurance. Its placing at this point in the book suggests the invincible experience of trusting souls. In order to appreciate all its value, the nine psalms immediately pr...
These verses are as a clue enabling us to apply the whole to Christ. In proof, read Psalms 8:4, explained by Hebrews 2:6, to the end. To add any other comment would be to hold a lighted taper before t...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS PSALMS 140 THROUGH 144. The five following psalms go over ground which we have trodden over in detail: only they apply to a restored Israel, still in conflict, and not...
MAN IS LIKE TO VANITY,.... Is vanity itself, in every age, state, and condition; yea, in his best estate, Psalms 39:5; or, "to the breath" h of the mouth, as Kimchi; which is gone as soon as seen almo...
Man is like to vanity: his days [are] as a shadow that passeth away. Ver. 4. _Man is like to vanity_] See Psalms 39:6; Psalms 62:9. _Adam Abelo compar est,_ Adam is Abel's mate. _ His days are as a...
_Lord, what is man_ He magnifies and illustrates God's goodness to him, by the consideration of his own meanness. Though I am a king over my people, yet, alas, I am but a man, a base, sinful; and mort...
Man is like to vanity, like a breath which is gone before it is noticed; HIS DAYS ARE AS A SHADOW THAT PASSETH AWAY, Psalms 102:11. All the firmer, then, must be the believer's trust in God....
THANKSGIVING AND PRAYER FOR DELIVERANCE. A psalm of David, in which he praises God for help experienced in the past and confidently implores His assistance against the enemies of the nation, as well...
1-8 When men become eminent for things as to which they have had few advantages, they should be more deeply sensible that God has been their Teacher. Happy those to whom the Lord gives that noblest v...
MAN IS LIKE, in his nature and continuance in the world, TO VANITY, or _to a vapour or a breath_, as ISAIAH 57:13, which is gone in an instant. THAT PASSETH AWAY; or, that declineth, as Psalms 102:11,...
Psalms 144:4 Man H120 like H1819 (H8804) breath H1892 days H3117 passing H5674 (H8802) shadow H6738...
A Psalm of David. No doubt written after some great victory, and also before another severe struggle. The Christian man seldom escapes from one difficulty without falling into another. Thanks be unto...
CONTENTS: Acknowledgment of the great goodness of God and prayer for the prosperity of the kingdom. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: Happy is the people whose God is the Lord, for even when they...
This, and the six following psalms, are all eucharistical, and seem to have been composed when David's sorrows were changed to joys. He here praises God for past mercies, and asks grace for the future...
_His days are as a shadow._ HUMAN LIFE A SHADOW I. A shadow is compounded of light and darkness; for when no object intercepts the light of the sun, or when the light of the sun is withdrawn, no sha...
_Lord, what is man, that Thou takest knowledge of him! _ THE VANITY OF MAN; AND CHRISTIANITY ITS ANTIDOTE We must take care, in denouncing human depravity, and declaiming on human misery, not to dec...
_Blessed be the Lord my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight._ THE LORD TEACHING US TO FIGHT I do not know what that “Book of the Wars of the Lord” was which is referred...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 144:1. This royal psalm asks God to give victory to the reigning heir of David. The “I” in vv. Psalms 144:1 is the Davidic king. God’s p
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 144:3 The king does not take God’s help for granted. He knows that if God should REGARD HIM, it is a kindness on God’s part. The king and the people he serves are LIKE A BREATH; t...
INTRODUCTION “This is a singularly composite Psalm. The earlier portion of it, to the end of Psalms 144:11, consists almost entirely of a cento of quotations, strung together from earlier Psalms; and...
EXPOSITION A PSALM in which praise and prayer are commingled. Almost certainly Davidic: 1. From the title. 2. From the style. 3. From the way in which David is mentioned in Psalms 144:10 (comp. Psa...
Blessed be the LORD my strength, which (Psalms 144:1) Now this is a psalm of David, and of course, some people get upset with this psalm because David thanks God for making him such a tough fighter....
1 Chronicles 29:15; 2 Samuel 14:14; Ecclesiastes 1:14; Ecclesiastes 1:2;...