Psalms 144 ~ Listen and Read Along

Dramatized KJV
 JV McGee
This is a song of triumphant assurance. In order to appreciate all its value, the nine psalms immediately preceding must be borne in mind. Five of them celebrate the sufficiency of God. These are followed by four which declare the utter helplessness of man. The present one immediately follows, and in it the two facts are present; but the Divine sufficiency is seen encompassing the human helplessness until it is so lost sight of as hardly to be discoverable.

The opening affirmations thrill with the singer"s confidence of ability in the might of The LORD. This affirmation is followed by an exclamation of surprise that The LORD so high, should take any account of man, who by comparison, is vanity. There is no shadow of doubt, for the song immediately becomes a prayer for the operation of The LORD’s might, for the rescue of the trusting soul. It then climbs to the higher level of praise in the new song of confidence which ends in a repetition of the prayer for rescue.

The Treasury of David

 

My Rock and My Fortress    

Psalms 144:1 A Psalm of David. Blessed be the LORD my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight:
Psalms 144:2 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.
Psalms 144:3 LORD, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him! or the son of man, that thou makest account of him!
Psalms 144:4 Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.
Psalms 144:5 Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
Psalms 144:6 Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out thine arrows, and destroy them.
Psalms 144:7 Send thine hand from above; rid me, and deliver me out of great waters, from the hand of strange children;
Psalms 144:8 Whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
Psalms 144:9 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.
Psalms 144:10 It is he that giveth salvation unto kings: who delivereth David his servant from the hurtful sword.
Psalms 144:11 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:
Psalms 144:12 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:
Psalms 144:13 That our garners may be full, affording all manner of store: that our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets:
Psalms 144:14 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.
Psalms 144:15 Happy is that people, that is in such a case: yea, happy is that people, whose God is the LORD.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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