Psalms · 15 verses
Psalms 144
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David’s vision of abundance ends not with treasure, but with oxen bearing great loads—and, rather grandly, with no cry of lament in the streets.
The Rock who trains the handsvv. 1–8
David begins with the LORD as rock, fortress, shield, and deliverer—the one who trains his hands for war and subdues peoples beneath him. Then the scale abruptly changes: man is only a breath and a passing shadow, while the LORD is asked to part the heavens, touch the mountains until they smoke, and rescue David from deep waters and deceitful foreigners.
A new song, with the old danger still in itvv. 9–11
David promises a new song on a ten-stringed harp to the God who gives victory to kings and frees His servant from the deadly sword. Yet the plea immediately returns, almost carrying its luggage back into the room: rescue from the same foreigners, with the same false mouths and deceitful right hands.
Plants, pillars, and heavily laden oxenvv. 12–15
The hoped-for future arrives as a household and farm inventory. Sons are young plants, daughters are carved palace pillars—a sudden exchange of garden for architecture—while storehouses overflow, flocks multiply, and oxen bear great loads. The final blessing gathers it all together: happy the people whose God is the LORD.
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Ps 144:1Of David. Blessed be the LORD, my Rock, who trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle.
Ps 144:2He is my steadfast love and my fortress, my stronghold and my deliverer. He is my shield, in whom I take refuge, who subdues peoples under me.
Ps 144:3O LORD, what is man, that You regard him, the son of man that You think of him?
Ps 144:4Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.
Ps 144:5Part Your heavens, O LORD, and come down; touch the mountains, that they may smoke.
Ps 144:6Flash forth Your lightning and scatter them; shoot Your arrows and rout them.
Ps 144:7Reach down from on high; set me free and rescue me from the deep waters, from the grasp of foreigners,
Ps 144:8whose mouths speak falsehood, whose right hands are deceitful.
Ps 144:9I will sing to You a new song, O God; on a harp of ten strings I will make music to You—
Ps 144:10to Him who gives victory to kings, who frees His servant David from the deadly sword.
Ps 144:11Set me free and rescue me from the grasp of foreigners, whose mouths speak falsehood, whose right hands are deceitful.
Ps 144:12Then our sons will be like plants nurtured in their youth, our daughters like corner pillars carved to adorn a palace.
Ps 144:13Our storehouses will be full, supplying all manner of produce; our flocks will bring forth thousands, tens of thousands in our fields.
Ps 144:14Our oxen will bear great loads. There will be no breach in the walls, no going into captivity, and no cry of lament in our streets.
Ps 144:15Blessed are the people of whom this is so; blessed are the people whose God is the LORD.
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- 1Psalms 18:34He trains my hands for battle; my arms can bend a bow of bronze.
- 12 Samuel 22:35He trains my hands for battle; my arms can bend a bow of bronze.
- 1Psalms 18:2The LORD is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer. My God is my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.
- 1Psalms 44:3–4For it was not by their sword that they took the land; their arm did not bring them victory. It was by Your right hand, Your arm, and the light of Your face, because You favored them.
- 1Ephesians 6:10–11Finally, be strong in the Lord and in His mighty power.
- 3Psalms 8:4what is man that You are mindful of him, or the son of man that You care for him?
- 12 Corinthians 10:4The weapons of our warfare are not the weapons of the flesh. Instead, they have divine power to demolish strongholds.
- 3Job 7:17What is man that You should exalt him, that You should set Your heart upon him,
- 15Psalms 33:12Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, the people He has chosen as His inheritance!
- 1Deuteronomy 32:30–31How could one man pursue a thousand, or two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, unless the LORD had given them up?
- 1Isaiah 45:24Surely they will say of Me, ‘In the LORD alone are righteousness and strength.’” All who rage against Him will come to Him and be put to shame.
- 12Psalms 128:3Your wife will be like a fruitful vine flourishing within your house, your sons like olive shoots sitting around your table.
- 15Ephesians 1:3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms.
- 1Psalms 60:12With God we will perform with valor, and He will trample our enemies.
- 22 Samuel 22:2–3He said: “The LORD is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer.
- 15Psalms 146:5Blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the LORD his God,
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