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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge: Psalm 144

Chapter 144

Blessed be the LORD my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight:

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&) A Psalm of David. Calmet and others think that this Psalm was composed by David after the death of Absalom; and from a collation of it with Ps 18, in which the same ideas and form of expression occur, there can be no doubt of both having proceeded from the same pen, and that David was the author.

my strength

Heb. my rock.

18:2,31 71:3 95:1 Deuteronomy 32:30,31 Isaiah 26:4 *marg:; Isaiah 45:24

teacheth

18:34 44:3,4 60:12 2 Samuel 22:35 2 Corinthians 10:4 Ephesians 6:10,11

to war

or, to the war, etc.

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

or, mercy. my fortress.

2 Samuel 22:2,3,40-48 Jeremiah 16:19

who subdueth

18:47 110:3

LORD, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him! or the son of man, that thou makest account of him!

what is man

8:4 Job 7:17 15:14 Hebrews 2:6

or the son

146:3,4

Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.

Man

39:5,6 62:9 89:47 Job 4:19 14:1-3 Ecclesiastes 1:2,14 12:8

his days

102:11 103:15,16 109:23 2 Samuel 14:14 1 Chronicles 29:15 Job 8:9 Ecclesiastes 8:13

Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.

Bow

18:9 Isaiah 64:1,2

touch

104:32 Exodus 19:18 Nahum 1:3-6 Habakkuk 3:3-6 Hebrews 12:18

Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out thine arrows, and destroy them.

Cast forth

18:13,14 77:17,18 2 Samuel 22:12-15

shoot out

7:12 21:12 45:5 Deuteronomy 32:23,42

Send thine hand from above; rid me, and deliver me out of great waters, from the hand of strange children;

Send

18:16 2 Samuel 22:17 Matthew 27:43

hand

Heb. hands. deliver me.

69:1,2,14,15 93:3,4 Revelation 12:15,16 17:15

the hand

11 54:3 Nehemiah 9:2 Malachi 2:11

Whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

mouth

10:7 12:2 41:6 58:3 62:4 109:2,3 Isaiah 59:5-7

their right hand

Isaiah 44:20 Matthew 5:30 Revelation 13:16,17

I will sing a new song unto thee, O God: upon a psaltery and an instrument of ten strings will I sing praises unto thee.

sing a new

33:2,3 40:3 98:1 149:1 Revelation 5:9,10 14:3

upon

81:1-3 108:2,3 150:3-5 1 Chronicles 25:1-6

It is he that giveth salvation unto kings: who delivereth David his servant from the hurtful sword.

that giveth

18:50 33:16-18 2 Samuel 5:19-25 8:6-14 2 Kings 5:1

salvation

or, victory.

Isaiah 45:1-6 Jeremiah 27:6-8

who delivereth

140:7 1 Samuel 17:45,46 2 Samuel 21:16,17

Rid me, and deliver me from the hand of strange children, whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood:

and deliver me

7,8 2 Samuel 10:6-19 16:5-14 17:1-14

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:

as plants

115:14,15 127:4,5 128:3 Isaiah 44:3-5 Lamentations 4:2

as corner stones

Job 42:15 Proverbs 31:10-27 Isaiah 3:16-24

polished

Heb. cut. the similitude.

Song of Solomon 8:8,9 1 Peter 3:3-6

That our garners may be full, affording all manner of store: that our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets:

our garners

107:37,38 Leviticus 26:5,10 Deuteronomy 28:8 Malachi 3:10 Luke 12:16-20

all manner of store

Heb. from kind to kind. our sheep.

Genesis 30:29-31 Deuteronomy 7:13,14 8:3 28:4

That our oxen may be strong to labour; that there be no breaking in, nor going out; that there be no complaining in our streets.

strong to labour

Heb. able to bear burdens, or loaden with flesh. no breaking in.

Deuteronomy 28:7,25 Judges 5:8 6:3,6 1 Samuel 13:17-23 31:7 Jeremiah 13:17-19 14:18 Lamentations 1:4-6 Zechariah 8:3-5

Happy is that people, that is in such a case: yea, happy is that people, whose God is the LORD.

yea, happy

33:12 65:4 89:15 146:5 Deuteronomy 33:29 Ephesians 1:3