--- title: "Psalms 144 - Study King James Bible with treasury of scripture knowledge" description: "Read Psalms 144 with treasury of scripture knowledge 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/treasury-of-scripture-knowledge/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 **my strength:** Heb. my rock, [Psalms 18:2](/kjv/psalms/18/2), [Psalms 18:31](/kjv/psalms/18/31), [Psalms 71:3](/kjv/psalms/71/3), [Psalms 95:1](/kjv/psalms/95/1), [Deuteronomy 32:30](/kjv/deuteronomy/32/30), [Deuteronomy 32:31](/kjv/deuteronomy/32/31), [Isaiah 26:4](/kjv/isaiah/26/4), *marg. [Isaiah 45:24](/kjv/isaiah/45/24) **teacheth:** [Psalms 18:34](/kjv/psalms/18/34), [Psalms 44:3](/kjv/psalms/44/3), [Psalms 44:4](/kjv/psalms/44/4), [Psalms 60:12](/kjv/psalms/60/12), [2 Samuel 22:35](/kjv/2-samuel/22/35), [2 Corinthians 10:4](/kjv/2-corinthians/10/4), [Ephesians 6:10](/kjv/ephesians/6/10), [Ephesians 6:11](/kjv/ephesians/6/11) **to war:** or, to the war, etc. **Reciprocal:** [Genesis 14:20](/kjv/genesis/14/20) - blessed [Deuteronomy 8:18](/kjv/deuteronomy/8/18) - he that [Deuteronomy 20:4](/kjv/deuteronomy/20/4) - to fight [2 Samuel 8:6](/kjv/2-samuel/8/6) - the Lord [2 Samuel 18:28](/kjv/2-samuel/18/28) - Blessed [2 Kings 13:16](/kjv/2-kings/13/16) - Elisha [1 Chronicles 14:11](/kjv/1-chronicles/14/11) - God [1 Chronicles 29:12](/kjv/1-chronicles/29/12) - give strength [Psalms 18:1](/kjv/psalms/18/1) - I will [Psalms 18:29](/kjv/psalms/18/29) - by thee [Psalms 33:20](/kjv/psalms/33/20) - he is [Psalms 108:13](/kjv/psalms/108/13) - Through [Psalms 138:7](/kjv/psalms/138/7) - thou shalt stretch [Isaiah 28:26](/kjv/isaiah/28/26) - For his God [Jeremiah 16:19](/kjv/jeremiah/16/19) - my strength [Ezekiel 30:24](/kjv/ezekiel/30/24) - I will [Nahum 1:7](/kjv/nahum/1/7) - strong hold [Zechariah 9:13](/kjv/zechariah/9/13) - made [Zechariah 12:5](/kjv/zechariah/12/5) - The inhabitants [Hebrews 11:33](/kjv/hebrews/11/33) - through ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#website","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com","name":"Real Bible Believers","description":"RBB","publisher":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#/schema/person/e966585dde703268e7f6ae890ea98509"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/search?q={search_term_string}","query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/treasury-of-scripture-knowledge/psalms/144#primaryimage","inLanguage":"en-US","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg","contentUrl":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg","width":672,"height":448,"caption":"Real Bible Believers"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/treasury-of-scripture-knowledge/psalms/144#webpage","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/treasury-of-scripture-knowledge/psalms/144","name":"Psalms 144 - Study King James Bible with treasury of scripture knowledge","isPartOf":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/treasury-of-scripture-knowledge/psalms/144#primaryimage"},"author":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#/schema/person/e966585dde703268e7f6ae890ea98509"},"description":"Read Psalms 144 with treasury of scripture knowledge 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; 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