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Psalm 144 Darby Translation

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  • Protestant
  • OT: Masoretic Hebrew
  • NT: Critical text
  • Protestant (66 books)
  • Very literal
  • 1890
  • Public domain

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1 [A Psalm] of David. Blessed be Jehovah my rock, who teacheth my hands to war, my fingers to fight; 2 My mercy and my fortress, my high tower and my deliverer, my shield and he in whom I trust, who subdueth my people under me! 3 Jehovah, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him, the son of man, that thou takest thought of him? 4 Man is like to vanity; his days are as a shadow that passeth away. 5 Jehovah, bow thy heavens, and come down; touch the mountains, that they smoke; 6 Cast forth lightnings, and scatter them; send forth thine arrows, and discomfit them: 7 Stretch out thy hands from above; rescue me, and deliver me out of great waters, from the hand of aliens, 8 Whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood. 9 O God, I will sing a new song unto thee; with the ten-stringed lute will I sing psalms unto thee: 10 Who givest salvation unto kings; who rescuest David thy servant from the hurtful sword. 11 Rescue me, and deliver me from the hand of aliens, whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood. 12 That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; our daughters as corner-columns, sculptured after the fashion of a palace: 13 Our granaries full, affording all manner of store; our sheep bringing forth thousands, ten thousands in our pastures; 14 Our kine laden [with young]; no breaking in and no going forth, and no outcry in our streets. 15 Blessed the people that is in such a case! Blessed the people whose God is Jehovah!

Cross references (15)

Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.

  1. 1 Psalm 18:34; Psalm 18:2; 2 Samuel 22:35; Psalm 44:3–4; Ephesians 6:10–11
  2. 2 2 Samuel 22:2–3; Psalm 18:2; Psalm 91:2; Psalm 59:9; Psalm 18:47
  3. 3 Psalm 8:4; Job 7:17; Hebrews 2:6; Job 15:14; Psalm 146:3–4
  4. 4 Psalm 102:11; Psalm 109:23; Job 8:9; Psalm 39:5–6; Ecclesiastes 12:8
  5. 5 Psalm 104:32; Psalm 18:9; Habakkuk 3:3–6; Exodus 19:18; Isaiah 64:1–2
  6. 6 Deuteronomy 32:23; Psalm 18:13–14; Deuteronomy 32:42; Psalm 21:12; Psalm 45:5
  7. 7 Psalm 69:1–2; Psalm 18:16; Psalm 54:3; Revelation 17:15; Matthew 27:43
  8. 8 Psalm 12:2; Psalm 41:6; Isaiah 44:20; Psalm 62:4; Matthew 5:30
  9. 9 Psalm 33:2–3; Psalm 40:3; Psalm 150:3–5; Psalm 149:1; Psalm 81:1–3
  10. 10 Psalm 18:50; Psalm 140:7; Psalm 33:16–18; 2 Samuel 5:19–25; 2 Samuel 21:16–17
  11. 11 Psalm 144:7–8; Isaiah 44:20; Psalm 12:2; 2 Samuel 17:1–14; 2 Samuel 10:6–19
  12. 12 Psalm 128:3; 1 Peter 3:3–6; Isaiah 44:3–5; Psalm 115:14–15; Job 42:15
  13. 13 Deuteronomy 7:13–14; Deuteronomy 28:8; Deuteronomy 28:4; Leviticus 26:10; Deuteronomy 8:3
  14. 14 Zechariah 8:3–5; Deuteronomy 28:7; Judges 6:6; 1 Samuel 13:17–23; Jeremiah 13:17–19
  15. 15 Psalm 33:12; Ephesians 1:3; Psalm 146:5; Deuteronomy 33:29; Psalm 65:4

Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences

What the Fathers said

Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).

How these were chosen

“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).

  1. Commentary Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms (Psalm CXLIII)

    The title of the Psalm is, "To David himself, when his son was pursuing him." We know from the Books of Kings that this happened:...but we must recognise here another David, truly "strong in hand," which is the explanation of David, even our Lord Jesus Christ. For all those events of past time were figures of things to come.

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)

  2. Quotes verse 144:9 Augustine of Hippo, Confessions (Book III, Chapters VIII–XI)

    And so do men live in opposition to the three and seven, that psaltery "of ten strings," Thy ten commandments, O God most high and most sweet.

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)

  3. Quotes verse 144:5 Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lectures (Lecture XII)

    And another of the Prophets entreated, saying, Bow the heavens, O Lord and come down.

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)

  4. Quotes verse 144:7 Augustine of Hippo, Confessions (Book III, Chapters VIII–XI)

    19. And Thou sendedst Thine hand from above, and drewest my soul out of that profound darkness, when my mother, Thy faithful one, wept to thee on my behalf more than mothers are wont to weep the bodily death of their children.

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)

  5. Quotes verse 144:5 Augustine of Hippo, Confessions (Book VIII)

    O Lord, Lord, who hast bowed the heavens and come down, touched the mountains and they did smoke, by what means didst Thou convey Thyself into that bosom?

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)