Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Psalms 144:8
Vanity — Vain brags and threatenings which shall come to nothing. Falsehood — Deceiving themselves, by being unable to do what they designed; and others, by not giving them that help which they promised.
Vanity — Vain brags and threatenings which shall come to nothing. Falsehood — Deceiving themselves, by being unable to do what they designed; and others, by not giving them that help which they promised.
THOSE MOUTH SPEAKETH VANITY - Vain things; things not real and true; falsehood; lies. See the notes at Psalms 24:4. The idea is, that what they said had no foundation in truth - no reality. Truth is s...
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...
SPEAKETH. Compare Psalms 144:11. and note the words they speak in verses: Psalms 144:12....
Prayer that God will appear in His majesty and deliver the Psalmist from his treacherous enemies....
_vanity_ i.e. falsehood: cp. Psalms 12:2; Psalms 41:6. _their right hand_&c. Uplifted in swearing a solemn oath. Cp. Psalms 106:26....
WHOSE MOUTH SPEAKETH VANITY, &C.— _Whose mouth uttereth falsehood, and whose right hand is a right hand of deceit:_ "For with that hand, as with a pledge, they confirmed the treaties of peace and leag...
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...
Whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood. WHOSE MOUTH SPEAKETH VANITY (HEBREW, shaaw' (H7723 ); DISTINCT FROM hebel (H1892 ),...
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" ...
RIGHT HAND OF FALSEHOOD. — Most probably with allusion to the custom (see Psalms 106:26) of raising the right hand in taking an oath....
אֲשֶׁ֣ר פִּ֭יהֶם דִּבֶּר ־שָׁ֑וְא וִֽ֝ ימִינָ֗ם...
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...
Whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand [is] a right hand (g) of falsehood. (g) For though they shake hands, they do not keep their promises....
_Patient. Hebrew, "slow to anger," which is more expressive. (Berthier)_...
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...
WHOSE MOUTH SPEAKETH VANITY,.... Vain words, lies, flatteries, and deceit, Psalms 12:2; when they speak loftily of themselves, and contemptuously of others; when they deliver out threatenings against...
Whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand [is] a right hand of falsehood. Ver. 8. _Whose mouth speaketh vanity_] They keep touch no further than will serve their own turns. _ And their right...
_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...
whose mouth speaketh vanity, making statements without the foundation of truth, AND THEIR RIGHT HAND IS A RIGHT HAND OF FALSEHOOD, since it is raised in swearing falsely. The entire picture is that of...
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...
VANITY; either, 1. Vain brags and threatenings, which shall come to nothing; or, 2. Vain and deceitful promises, or professions, or friendship. Their right hand; here mentioned either, 1. As it is...
Psalms 144:8 mouth H6310 speaks H1696 (H8765) words H7723 hand H3225 hand H3225 falsehood H8267 mouth -...
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....
Isaiah 44:20; Isaiah 59:5; Matthew 5:30; Psalms 10:7; Psalms 109:2;...