My goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and [he] in whom I trust; who (b) subdueth my people under me.
(b) He confesses that neither by his own authority, power or policy was his kingdom quiet, but by the secret grace of God.
Verse Psalms 144:2. _WHO SUBDUETH MY PEOPLE_] Who has once more reduced the nation to a state of loyal obedience. This may refer to the peace after the rebellion of Absalom....
MY GOODNESS - Margin, “my mercy.” That is, He shows me mercy or favor. All the favors that I receive come from him. AND MY FORTRESS; MY HIGH TOWER, AND MY DELIVERER - See the notes at Psalms 18:2, wh...
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...
GOODNESS. lovingkindness. The Syriac reads "refuge". DELIVERER. liberator. Hebrew. _paLatin_ Not the same word as in verses: Psalms 144:7; Psalms 144:10; Psalms 144:11. See notes below. TRUST. fl
Praise of Jehovah the Giver of victory....
Cp. Psalms 18:2; Psalms 18:47, and notes there. _My goodness_ Rather, my lovingkindness, a bold expression for _the God of my lovingkindness_(Psalms 59:10;...
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...
My goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and he in whom I trust; who subdueth my people under me. MY GOODNESS - rather, 'my loving-kindness,' who art loving-kindne...
144:2 mercy (i-2) See Note, Psalms 59:10 ....
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...
MY GOODNESS] lit. 'my lovingkindness,' but with the change of a single Hebrew letter we can render 'my castle,' which is much more suitable. MY PEOPLE] probably we should render, 'the peoples.' 3, 4....
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" ...
MY GOODNESS· — Or, _my lovingkindness,_ or _my grace,_ a shortened form of “God of my grace” (Psalms 59:10; Psalms 59:17). The expression is exactly analogous to the term” grace,” applied to kings as...
חַסְדִּ֥י וּ מְצוּדָתִי֮ מִשְׂגַּבִּ֪י וּֽ מְפַלְטִ֫י...
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 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...
2._My goodness_, _etc_. This way of using the word in a passive sense, as in the Hebrew, sounds harsh in Latin; just as elsewhere (Psalms 18:50) he calls himself “God’s king,” not in the sense of his...
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...
MY GOODNESS,.... Not only good, but goodness itself; the donor of all the blessings of goodness to him; the author of all goodness in him; the provider of all goodness for him, laid up to be used here...
My goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and [he] in whom I trust; who subdueth my people under me. Ver. 2. _My goodness and my fortress_] See Psalms 18:1, with the n...
_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 Goodness, rather, my Mercy, since it was the Lord's unmerited favor which sustained David, AND MY FORTRESS, his mountain Stronghold, where he is beyond the reach of his enemies; MY HIGH TOWER, AND...
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...
MY GOODNESS: Or, my mercy...
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...
MY GOODNESS; or, _my mercy_; or, the God _of my mercy_, as God is called, PSALMS 59:10,17; the name of God being easily understood from the foregoing verse. Or, he who is exceeding good or merciful to...
Psalms 144:2 lovingkindness H2617 fortress H4686 tower H4869 deliverer H6403 (H8764) shield H4043 refuge H2620 (H8804
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 Samuel 22:2; 2 Samuel 22:3; 2 Samuel 22:40; Jeremiah 16:19;...
Subdued — Who hath disposed my peoples hearts to receive and obey me as their king....