--- title: "Psalms 144 - Study King James Bible with calvins commentary on the bible" description: "Read Psalms 144 with calvins commentary on the bible commentary. 1 Blessed be the LORD my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight: 2 My goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my delivere" image: "/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/calvins-commentary-on-the-bible/psalms/144" --- [ Read](/kjv/psalms/144)[ Commentary](/study/psalms/144)[ Interlinear](/interlinear/psalms/144) Audio 1 Blessed *be* the LORD my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, *and* my fingers to fight:** 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.* 3 LORD, what *is* man, that thou takest knowledge of him! *or* the son of man, that thou makest account of him! 4 Man is like to vanity: his days *are* as a shadow that passeth away. 5 Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke. 6 Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out thine arrows, and destroy them. 7 Send thine hand from above; rid me, and deliver me out of great waters, from the hand of strange children;* 8 Whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand *is* a right hand of falsehood. 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. 10 *It is he* that giveth salvation unto kings: who delivereth David his servant from the hurtful sword.* 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: 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:* 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:* 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.* 15 Happy *is that* people, that is in such a case: *yea*, happy *is that* people, whose God *is* the LORD. [Psalms 143](/study/psalms/143) [Psalms 145](/study/psalms/145) ## Commentary To verse 1 **1.***Blessed be Jehovah, my strength* (257) It is very evident that David, since he celebrates the favor of God in such high terms, had not only obtained the kingdom, but gained signal victories. When he calls God *his strength*, he acknowledges that any courage he had was given him from above, not only because he had been made from a country shepherd a mighty warrior, but because the constancy and perseverance he had shown was signally a gift from God. This term answers better than were we to translate it rock; for, by way of explanation, he adds immediately afterwards, that he had been formed under God’s teaching for war. The words certainly imply an acknowledgment, that though of a warlike spirit, he was not born for warlike enterprises but needed to undergo a change. What kind of a commencement, for example, did he show in the case of Goliah? That attempt would have been preposterous on any other supposition than his being upheld by secret divine support, so as to be independent of mere human help. ([1 Samuel 17:40](/kjv/1-samuel/17/40).) 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