Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
Psalms 144:6
Cast forth lightning, in a mighty thunderstorm, and scatter them; shoot out Thine arrows, for the lightnings were considered the arrows of the majestic God, and destroy them.
Cast forth lightning, in a mighty thunderstorm, and scatter them; shoot out Thine arrows, for the lightnings were considered the arrows of the majestic God, and destroy them.
Verse Psalms 144:6. _CAST FORTH LIGHTNING_] Psalms 18:13; _"_Psalms 18:14_"_....
CAST FORTH LIGHTNINGS, AND SCATTER THEM - See the notes at Psalms 18:14 : “He sent out his arrows, and scattered them.” The allusion there is to lightning. The psalmist prays that; God would do now ag...
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...
CAST FORTH. Flash. Hebrew lighten lightnings. Figure of speech _Polyptoton_ (App-6). See note on Genesis 26:28. ARROWS. Figure of speech _Anthropopatheia._ App-6....
Prayer that God will appear in His majesty and deliver the Psalmist from his treacherous enemies....
Lighten lightning, and scatter them: Send forth thine arrows, and discomfit them. A variation of Psalms 18:14, corresponding again more closely to the text of 2 Samuel 22:15. _Them_must refer to the...
CAST FORTH, &C.— _Cast forth lightning, and make them_ [the heavens] _swell: cast thy darts and melt them._ Schult....
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...
Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out thine arrows, and destroy them. CAST FORTH LIGHTNING, AND SCATTER THEM: SHOOT OUT THINE ARROWS, AND DESTROY THEM - (Psalms 18:13.) 'All God's acts...
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" ...
CAST FORTH LIGHTNING. — Literally, _lighten lightning,_ the verb being quite peculiar to this place....
בְּרֹ֣וק בָּ֭רָק וּ תְפִיצֵ֑ם שְׁלַ֥ח חִ֝צֶּ֗יךָ...
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...
(e) Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out thine arrows, and destroy them. (e) By these manner of speeches he shows that all the hindrances in the world cannot prevent God's power, which h...
_Acts. Miracles hhich strike people with awe, (Worthington) such as those which overwhelmed the Egyptians, &c. (Theodoret) (Calmet) --- And shall. Hebrew, "and shalt," &c. But Chaldean (St. Jerome) re...
In every sense this prayer is striking, and beautiful in whatever sense it be considered; whether as the prayer of the church for the Lord to come down in the power of the Spirit, to bruise Satan, and...
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...
CAST FORTH LIGHTNING, AND SCATTER THEM,.... The mountains, the kings and kingdoms of the earth; the enemies of David, and of Christ, and of his people; particularly the Jews, who have been scattered a...
Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out thine arrows, and destroy them. Ver. 6. _Cast forth lightning, and scatter them_] All this was done according to David's desire, Psalms 18:13,14. God...
_Bow thy heavens and come down_ To help me before it be too late, remembering what a frail and perishing creature I am. “David having celebrated his victories over some of his enemies, and extolled th...
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...
Thy thunderbolts, which oft accompany the lightnings and thunder....
Psalms 144:6 forth H1299 (H8798) lightning H1300 scatter H6327 (H8686) out H7971 (H8798) arrows H2671 destroy...
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
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 144:5 The psalm moves on to request: RESCUE ME AND DELIVER ME... FROM THE HAND OF FOREIGNERS. This suggests that the psalm is especially suited to a time when the king must lead 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....
2 Samuel 22:12; Deuteronomy 32:23; Deuteronomy 32:42; Psalms 18:13;...