that our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth, thriving in the strength of their youth; that our daughters may be as corner-stones, polished after the similitude of a palace, graceful as the architectural ornaments, glistening with gold and brilliant colors, which were found in the reception-halls of Oriental houses, the figure stressing both the strength and the charm of the young women;
Verse Psalms 144:12. _THAT OUR SONS_ MAY BE _AS PLANTS_] God had promised to his people, being faithful, THREE _descriptions_ of BLESSINGS, Deuteronomy 28:4. 1. The _fruit of the body_ - sons and dau...
THAT OUR SONS MAY BE AS PLANTS GROWN UP IN THEIR YOUTH - That our sons - not called forth to the hardships of the tent and the field, the perils and the exposures of war - may grow up under the cultur...
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...
THAT. Who. Hebrew. _'asher_. Supply the Ellipsis thus: "Who [say] our sons are, &c. "All the words in italic type in verses: Psalms 144:12. maybe omitted, or the Present Tense may be supplied througho...
_That our sons_may be like plants well grown in their youth] Cp. Psalms 128:3. _Plant_denotes a freshly planted sapling sending up its young shoots, LXX νεόφυτα, cp. Job 14:9. Vergil uses a similar co...
A description of the prosperity of Israel under the protection and blessing of Jehovah. Cp. generally Deuteronomy 28:2 ff; Deuteronomy 30:9. The absolute dependence of the earlier verses upon existin...
_PSALMS 144:12_, &C. _THAT OUR SONS MAY BE,_ &C.— _Our sons are like plants grown tall in their youth; and our daughters like corner-pillars polished for the ornament of a palace._ Green; who renders...
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...
That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude of a palace: THAT OUR SONS MAY BE AS PLANTS GROWN UP IN THEIR YOUTH...
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...
The want of connexion seems to point to a new fragment. OUR DAUGHTERS, etc.] Two renderings are possible: (1) 'our daughters be draped in purple cloth like the hangings of a palace,' or (2) 'our daugh...
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" ...
THAT OUR SONS. — This rendering of the relative, which so strangely begins this fragment, would be possible after Genesis 11:7; Genesis 13:16, &c, if a finite verb instead of participles followed; or...
אֲשֶׁ֤ר בָּנֵ֨ינוּ ׀ כִּ נְטִעִים֮ מְגֻדָּלִ֪ים בִּֽ...
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...
(k) That our sons [may be] as plants grown up in their youth; [that] our daughters [may be] as corner stones, polished [after] the similitude of a palace: (k) He desires God to continue his benefits...
_Thy. Hebrew, "his." But the Septuagint read more correctly, with the Chaldean, &c. --- Men. The Gentiles, to whom the saints, (Berthier) or converted Jews preached. (Haydock)_...
These are the blessed consequences of the reign of Jesus. His birth shall be as the dew-drops of the morning; and the Lord will give his people a name, in his house, better than of sons and daughters,...
12._Because our sons_, _etc_. These three concluding verses some consider as being a wish or a prayer. (271) Others think that David congratulates himself, and all the people, that through the divine...
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...
THAT OUR SONS [MAY BE] AS PLANTS GROWN UP IN THEIR YOUTH,.... The Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, Ethiopic, Syriac, and Arabic versions, read, "whose sons [are as] plants", c. as if this and what follows w...
That our sons [may be] as plants grown up in their youth; [that] our daughters [may be] as corner stones, polished [after] the similitude of a palace: Ver. 12. _That our sons may be as plants, &c._]...
_Rid me, and deliver me_, &c. “Prayer is again made for a continuance of God's favour, and a complete victory over every enemy; the happy consequences of which, in the establishment of Israel and the...
POLISHED: _ Heb._ cut...
9-15 Fresh favours call for fresh returns of thanks; we must praise God for the mercies we hope for by his promise, as well as those we have received by his providence. To be saved from the hurtful s...
This mercy I beg, not only for my own sake, but for the sake of thy people, that thine and our enemies being subdued, and peace established in the land, thy people may enjoy those blessings which thou...
Psalms 144:12 sons H1121 plants H5195 up H1431 (H8794) youth H5271 daughters H1323 pillars H2106 Sculptured H2404
Psalms 144:12 I. These two figures express, in different ways, the notions of fixity and substance. Both plant and column are fixed and steady. The plant is fixed by its roots into the earth, the colu...
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...
_Rid me, and deliver me from the hand of strange children._ A WISE, PATRIOTIC PRAYER I. The cultivation of moral worth amongst young people is of vast importance to a state. The moral character whic...
CORNER STONES (FOR GIRLS.) Our daughters as cornerstones hewn [cut or shaped] after the fashion of a palace. Psalms 144:12. Have you ever watched masons building a house? If you have you will have...
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 144:12 The closing section shows the purpose of the fight, namely, to protect God’s people so that they can flourish under God’s blessing. They recognize that SUCH BLESSINGS are G...
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 Peter 3:3; Isaiah 3:16; Isaiah 44:3; Job 42:15; Lamentations 4:2;...
That — This mercy I beg not only for my own sake, but for the sake of thy people, that they may enjoy those blessings which thou hast promised them; and particularly, that our sons, who are the streng...