Psalms 144:5
What meaning of the psalms 144:5 in the Bible?
What does Psalms 144:5 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke."
What does Psalms 144:5 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke."
Verse Psalms 144:5. _BOW THY HEAVENS_] Psalms 18:9....
BOW THY HEAVENS, O LORD ... - Come to my aid “as if” the heavens were bent down; come down with all thy majesty and glory. See the notes at Psalms 18:9 : “He bowed down the heavens also, and came down...
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 d...
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...
The descriptions of Psalms 18:9; Psalms 104:32 are turned into prayer....
BOW THY HEAVENS— See 2 Samuel 8 and 2 Samuel 22:10. The images here are taken from the promulgation of the law on mount Sinai....
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...
Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke. BOW THY HEAVENS, O LORD, AND COME DOWN - from : cf. ; borrowed from the same source. What Yahweh has shown Himsel...
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" (MATTHEW 5:8). PSALMS 144 (This is) a psa...
COME DOWN. — The theophany for which the psalmist prays is described in the classic language for such manifestations taken from Psalms 18:9; Psalms 18:13; Psalms 18:16; Psalms 18:43; Psalms 18:45, wit...
יְ֭הוָה הַט ־שָׁמֶ֣יךָ וְ תֵרֵ֑ד גַּ֖ע בֶּ † הָרִ֣ים וְֽ יֶעֱשָֽׁנוּ׃...
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...
(d) Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke. (d) He desires God to continue his graces, and to send help for the present need....
_And shall. Hebrew, "and I shall relate the words of thy wonders," (St. Jerome) or "shall meditate on," &c. (Pagnin) (Haydock) --- Yet our version is more followed. (Calmet)_...
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...
5._O Jehovah! bow thy heavens_. After extolling, as was due, the great goodness of God, he requests him to furnish such help for the preservation of the kingdom as was necessary in the present exigenc...
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...
BOW THY HEAVENS, O LORD, AND COME DOWN,.... The heavens, which the Lord has made, and where he dwells; and which are under his influence, and he can cause to incline or bow at his pleasure: and which...
Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke. Ver. 5. _Bow thy heavens, O Lord_] Come to my help suddenly and seasonably, as it were out of an engine, εκ της μηχα...
Psa. 144:5. "Bow thy heavens, O Lord, and come down." This was never so remarkably fulfilled as in the incarnation of Jesus Christ, when heaven and earth were as it were brought together. Heaven itsel...
_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...
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 vi...
COME DOWN, to help me, before it be too late, remembering what a frail and perishing creature I am. AND THEY SHALL SMOKE; or, that they may smoke; or, and let them smoke, as Sinai did at thy glorious...
Psalms 144:5 down H5186 (H8685) heavens H8064 LORD H3068 down H3381 (H8799) Touch H5060 (H8798) mountains H2022 smoke H6225 (H8799) Bow - Psalms 18:9; Isaiah 64:1-2 touch - Psalms 104:32;...
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 promise to David’s house has tied the...
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. Ps...
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....
Exodus 19:18; Habakkuk 3:3; Hebrews 12:18; Isaiah 64:1; Isaiah 64:2; Nahum 1:3; Psalms 18:9; Psalms 104:32...
Come — To help me. Smoke — As Sinai did at thy glorious appearance, Exodus 19:18. This is a figurative and poetical description of God's coming to take vengeance upon his enemies....