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Psalms 144:1
Blessed be the Lord, my Strength, his Rock or Refuge, with whom he is safe, which teacheth my hands to war and my fingers to fight, giving the king instruction and assistance in waging a just war;
Blessed be the Lord, my Strength, his Rock or Refuge, with whom he is safe, which teacheth my hands to war and my fingers to fight, giving the king instruction and assistance in waging a just war;
PSALM CXLIV _The psalmist praises God for his goodness_, 1, 2. _Exclamations relative to the vanity of human life_, 3, 4. _He prays against his enemies_, 5-8; _and extols God's mercy for the tempo...
BLESSED BE THE LORD MY STRENGTH - Margin, as in Hebrew, “my rock.” See the notes at Psalms 18:46, where the same expression occurs in the Hebrew. WHICH TEACHETH MY HANDS TO WAR - Hebrew, “To the war.”...
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...
TITLE, OF DAVID . by David. The Septuagint adds "concerning Goliath." This may be because Psalms 8, which relates to David and Goliath, has the same words in Psalms 8:4 as in Psalms 144:3. In any case...
_Blessed_be Jehovah my rock] From Psalms 18:46. _which teacheth my hands to war_, and _my fingers to fight_ An expansion of Psalms 18:34 _a. Hands_and _fingers_are a common parallelism, but possibly _...
Praise of Jehovah the Giver of victory....
_David blesseth God for his mercy: he prayeth that God would powerfully deliver him from his enemies: he promiseth to praise God: he prayeth for the happy estate of the kingdom._ A Psalm of David. _T...
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...
Blessed be the LORD my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight: Psalms 144:1.-Blessed be Yahweh, my strength, in subduing my enemies (Psalms 144:1). How marvelous that tho...
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" ...
STRENGTH. — Rather, _rock._ Comp. Psalms 18:2; Psalms 18:46. LXX. and Vulg., “my God.” WHICH TEACHETH. — See Psalms 18:34. More literally, “Who traineth my hands for war, My fingers for fight.”...
לְ דָוִ֨ד ׀ בָּ֘ר֤וּךְ יְהוָ֨ה ׀ צוּרִ֗י הַֽ...
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...
"[A Psalm] of David." Blessed [be] the LORD my strength, which (a) teacheth my hands to war, [and] my fingers to fight: (a) Who out of a poor shepherd has made a valiant warrior and mighty conqueror....
Praise. The remaining seven psalms relate to the praises of God, to intimate that this occupation ought to be our glory, both in time and in eternity, as all were created for that purpose. (Ven. Bede)...
These military expressions are all suited to the spiritual warrior. Jesus, the great Captain of our salvation, had a personal conflict with Satan, and having been taught of Jehovah how to fight and ov...
CONTENTS This Psalm hath much in it concerning Christ. If we read it wholly with reference to him and his church, we shall find it to be a very delightful hymn, suited to the times of the gospel. A...
_‘IF GOD BE FOR ME, WHO CAN BE AGAINST ME?’_ ‘Blessed be the Lord my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight.’ Psalms 144:1 I am far from thinking that this sentence applie...
1._Blessed be Jehovah, my strength _(257) It is very evident that David, since he celebrates the favor of God in such high terms, had not only obtained the kingdom, but gained signal victories. When h...
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...
BLESSED [BE] THE LORD MY STRENGTH,.... The author and giver of his natural strength of body, and of the fortitude of his mind, and of all the spiritual strength he had, to exercise grace, to bear up u...
Psalms 144:1 «[A Psalm] of David. » Blessed [be] the LORD my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, [and] my fingers to fight: _A Psalm of David_] The Greek addeth, against Goliath; and the Chalde...
_Blessed be the Lord my strength_ On whom I rely, and from whom I have power to withstand and subdue my enemies, and to perform the duties of my place and station; _who teacheth my hands to war_, &c....
MY STRENGTH: _ Heb._ my rock TO WAR: _ Heb._ to the war, etc....
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...
PSALM 144 THE ARGUMENT The matter of this Psalm is partly gratulatory for mercies received, and partly petitionary for further blessings. It seems to have been composed after Saul's death, and in the...
Psalms 144:1 David H1732 Blessed H1288 (H8803) LORD H3068 Rock H6697 trains H3925 (H8764) hands H3027 war...
Psalms 144:1 I am far from thinking that this sentence applies exclusively to what we designate spiritual conflicts. I should suppose that David, or whoever the writer of the Psalm was, gave thanks th...
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...
_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
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....
2 Corinthians 10:4; 2 Samuel 22:35; Deuteronomy 32:30; Deuteronomy 32:31;...