Psa 144:1

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Ps 144:1 David blesses God for his mercy both to him and to man.

Ps 144:5 He prays that God would powerfully deliver him from his enemies.

Ps 144:9 He promises to praise God.

Ps 144:11 He prays for the happy state of the kingdom.

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A Psalm of David.

Calmet and others think that this Psalm was composed by David after the death of Absalom; and from a collation of it with Ps 18, in which the same ideas and form of expression occur, there can be no doubt of both having proceeded from the same pen, and that David was the author.

my strength. Heb. my rock.

Ps 18:2; Ps 18:31; Ps 71:3; Ps 95:1; Deut 32:30; Deut 32:31; Isa 26:4

Isa 45:24

teacheth.

Ps 18:34; Ps 44:3; Ps 44:4; Ps 60:12; 2Sam 22:35; 2Cor 10:4; Eph 6:10; Eph 6:11

to war. or, to the war, etc.