Psalm 144
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Psalms 144— Hebrew word study · with the Hebrew tradition
How to read a word below: the Hebrewword, then how it sounds, then what it means, then its number in Strong’s concordance, which is the key every lexicon and concordance uses (H for Hebrew and Aramaic, G for Greek). Square brackets hold a word the English supplies that the Hebrew does not, angle brackets name a word that does a grammatical job rather than carrying a meaning, and the mark ס or פ is where the Hebrew manuscripts end a paragraph.
1Blessed be the LORD, my Rock, who trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle.
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.
3O LORD, what is man, that You regard him, the son of man that You think of him?
4Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.
5Part Your heavens, O LORD, and come down; touch the mountains, that they may smoke.
6Flash forth Your lightning and scatter them; shoot Your arrows and rout them.
7Reach down from on high; set me free and rescue me from the deep waters, from the grasp of foreigners,
8whose mouths speak falsehood, whose right hands are deceitful.
9I will sing to You a new song, O God; on a harp of ten strings I will make music to You—
10to Him who gives victory to kings, who frees His servant David from the deadly sword.
Rashi on Psalms 144:10
Who gives salvation to kings This speaks about the Rock of the Divisions, when David was close to being seized by Saul (I Sam.:27): “A messenger came to Saul, saying, ‘Make haste and go, etc.’” He saved Saul from shedding innocent blood, and David from being killed.
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11Set me free and rescue me from the grasp of foreigners, whose mouths speak falsehood, whose right hands are deceitful.
Rashi on Psalms 144:11
Deliver me and rescue me As You delivered me then, so shall You deliver me now.
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12Then our sons will be like plants nurtured in their youth, our daughters like corner pillars carved to adorn a palace.
Rashi on Psalms 144:12
For our sons are, etc. That is to say that now too this generation is righteous.
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13Our storehouses will be full, supplying all manner of produce; our flocks will bring forth thousands, tens of thousands in our fields.
Rashi on Psalms 144:13
Our corners are full The corners of our storehouses are full of goodness.
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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.
Rashi on Psalms 144:14
Our princes are borne The great princes among us are borne by those smaller than they, for the small ones obey the greater ones, the result being that there is no breach among us.
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15Blessed are the people of whom this is so; blessed are the people whose God is the LORD.