Psalm Chapter 144 - A Psalm of David

Psalm 144: Strength for Battle and the Blessing of a God-Kept People

This episode presents Psalm 144, a psalm of David, in which David blesses the Lord as his strength who trains his hands for war and names God as his goodness, fortress, high tower, deliverer, shield, and the one he trusts. He marvels at how fleeting man is, like vanity and a passing shadow, and then prays for the Lord to bow the heavens, come down, and scatter enemies with lightning and arrows, delivering him from “great waters” and from “strange children” whose speech is vain and whose right hand is false. David vows to sing a new song with psaltery and ten-stringed instrument, praising the God who gives salvation to kings and delivers His servant from the hurtful sword. The psalm ends with a vision of blessing: thriving sons and daughters, full storehouses, multiplied flocks, strong oxen, safety, and peace, concluding that happy are the people whose God is the Lord.

00:00 Psalm 144 Opening
00:06 God My Strength
00:21 Human Frailty
00:35 Cry for Deliverance
01:00 New Song of Praise
01:22 Blessings for the People
01:50 True Happiness

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Psalm 144 - A Psalm of David

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

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.

Lord, what is man, that thou
takest knowledge of him!

or the son of man, that
thou makest account of him!

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

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

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

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

from the hand of strange children;

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

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.

It is he that giveth salvation unto
kings: who delivereth David his

servant from the hurtful sword.

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:

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:

That our garners may be full,
affording all manner of store: that

our sheep may bring forth thousands
and ten thousands in our streets:

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.

Happy is that people, that is in
such a case: yea, happy is that

people, whose God is the Lord.