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Psalms 144:14

that our oxen may be strong to labor, prolific, bringing forth strong calves; that there be no breaking in nor going out, no enemy making a breach in the city walls, no city forced to surrender; that there be no complaining in our streets, no lamenting on account of indignities inflicted by cruel conquerors. It is a fine description of happiness and prosperity under the blessing of God.

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See also Psalms 144:14 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Psalms 144:14. _OUR OXEN_ MAY BE _STRONG TO LABOUR_] We have not only an abundance of cattle; but they are of the most strong and vigorous breed. _NO BREAKING IN_] So well ordered is the _poli...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    THAT OUR OXEN MAY BE STRONG TO LABOUR - Margin, “able to bear burdens;” or, “laden with flesh.” The Hebrew is simply loaded or laden: that is, with a burden; or, with flesh; or, as Gesenius renders it...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    PSALM 143-145 In Psalms 143:1 the enemy is mentioned again, the enemy who pursued David. “For the enemy has persecuted my soul; he has smitten my life down to the ground; he has made me to dwell in da...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    CXLIV. Ascribed by LXX and also by T. to David against Goliath, but without any shadow of reason. Psalms 144:1 is really a mosaic chiefly taken from Psalms 18, but also from Psalms 8, 33, 104. It is a...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    STRONG TO LABOUR. well laden. NO BREAKING IN. no invasion. NOR GOING OUT. no captivity....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    A description of the prosperity of Israel under the protection and blessing of Jehovah. Cp. generally Deuteronomy 28:2 ff; Deuteronomy 30:9. The absolute dependence of the earlier verses upon existin...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _our oxen … strong to labour_ Both words are of uncertain meaning. (1) Most commentators follow the Ancient Versions in regarding the word _allûphîm_here as a variant form for _alâphîm_, -oxen" or -ca...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    PSALMS 144 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE From David's Psalms are Selected Strains, by one of his Sons, Emboldening him to Plead for Deliverance from Foreigners. An Appendix anticipates Happy Times. ANALYSIS St...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    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. THAT OUR OXEN MAY BE STRONG TO LABOUR - literally, 'strong to bear b...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    144:14 young]; (e-5) Or 'oxen well laden.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    This Ps. consists mainly of thoughts and quotations from earlier Pss., e.g. 8 and 18. Psalms 144:12 are, however, quite unlike anything else in the Psalter, and some suppose them to be a quotation fro...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    BREAKING IN] invasion by an enemy. GOING OUT] either into exile, or to surrender to an enemy. COMPLAINING] RV 'outcry': cp. Isaiah 24:11; Jeremiah 14:2....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    Psalms 107:150 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ WE *BLESS GOD AND GOD *BLESSES US! PSALMS 144 Jesus said, "(God will) *bless people that are good. They will see God" ...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    This verse is full of obscurities. The words rendered “oxen, strong to labour,” can hardly bear this meaning with the present pointing, since the participle is passive, and there is no authority for r...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    אַלּוּפֵ֗ינוּ מְֽסֻבָּ֫לִ֥ים אֵֽין ־פֶּ֭רֶץ וְ אֵ֣ין...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    Psalms 144:1 THE force of compilation could no further go than in this psalm, which is, in the first eleven verses (Psalms 144:1)simply a _ rechauffe_ of known psalms, and in Psalms 144:12 is most pro...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

      GOD'S PEOPLE ARE HAPPY Psalms 144:1-15 This psalm savors of the rocky caverns from which David and his men emerged to fight. Each day the chieftain asked God to teach him to fight, and realized t...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    This is a song of triumphant assurance. Its placing at this point in the book suggests the invincible experience of trusting souls. In order to appreciate all its value, the nine psalms immediately pr...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    [That] our (m) oxen [may be] strong to labour; [that there be] no breaking in, nor going out; that [there be] no complaining in our streets. (m) He attributes not only the great conveniences, but eve...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Lifteth. Hebrew, "upholdeth all who are falling." (Haydock) --- No one can stand or rise without God. (Berthier) --- He is ready to lift up every one. (Worthington)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    These are the blessed consequences of the reign of Jesus. His birth shall be as the dew-drops of the morning; and the Lord will give his people a name, in his house, better than of sons and daughters,...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    14._Our oxen_, _etc_. The Hebrew word סבל, _sabal_, is properly to carry. Accordingly some understand מסובלים, _mesubbalim_, to mean robust, (274) as unless they were strong oxen they would not be fit...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS PSALMS 140 THROUGH 144. The five following psalms go over ground which we have trodden over in detail: only they apply to a restored Israel, still in conflict, and not...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    [THAT] OUR OXEN [MAY BE] STRONG TO LABOUR,.... To draw carriages, to plough with, and to tread out the corn: or "may be burdened" w; fit to carry burdens; or burdened with flesh, be plump and fat, and...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    __ 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._ Ver. 14. _Nor going out_] viz. To encounte...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Rid me, and deliver me_, &c. “Prayer is again made for a continuance of God's favour, and a complete victory over every enemy; the happy consequences of which, in the establishment of Israel and the...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    STRONG TO LABOUR: _ Heb._ able to bear burdens, or loaden with flesh...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    9-15 Fresh favours call for fresh returns of thanks; we must praise God for the mercies we hope for by his promise, as well as those we have received by his providence. To be saved from the hurtful s...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    TO LABOUR, Heb. _laden_, either with flesh and fat, as many understand it; or, as others, with young: but then the foregoing word is not to be rendered OXEN, but _cows_, as the same word and in the sa...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Psalms 144:14 oxen H441 well-laden H5445 (H8794) breaking H6556 out H3318 (H8802) outcry H6682 streets H7339...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    A Psalm of David. No doubt written after some great victory, and also before another severe struggle. The Christian man seldom escapes from one difficulty without falling into another. Thanks be unto...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Acknowledgment of the great goodness of God and prayer for the prosperity of the kingdom. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: Happy is the people whose God is the Lord, for even when they...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    This, and the six following psalms, are all eucharistical, and seem to have been composed when David's sorrows were changed to joys. He here praises God for past mercies, and asks grace for the future...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _That there be no complaining in our streets._ ENGLISH PAUPERISM English pauperism is a peculiar product of this island. You see nothing like it anywhere else. Those who have heard me speak on this t...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Rid me, and deliver me from the hand of strange children._ A WISE, PATRIOTIC PRAYER I. The cultivation of moral worth amongst young people is of vast importance to a state. The moral character whic...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 144:1. This royal psalm asks God to give victory to the reigning heir of David. The “I” in vv. Psalms 144:1 is the Davidic king. God’s p

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 144:12 The closing section shows the purpose of the fight, namely, to protect God’s people so that they can flourish under God’s blessing. They recognize that SUCH BLESSINGS are G...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    INTRODUCTION “This is a singularly composite Psalm. The earlier portion of it, to the end of Psalms 144:11, consists almost entirely of a cento of quotations, strung together from earlier Psalms; and...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION A PSALM in which praise and prayer are commingled. Almost certainly Davidic: 1. From the title. 2. From the style. 3. From the way in which David is mentioned in Psalms 144:10 (comp. Psa...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Blessed be the LORD my strength, which (Psalms 144:1) Now this is a psalm of David, and of course, some people get upset with this psalm because David thanks God for making him such a tough fighter....

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Samuel 13:17; 1 Samuel 31:7; Deuteronomy 28:25; Deuteronomy 28:7;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Breaking in — Of enemies invading the land, or assaulting our cities, and making breaches in their walls. Going out — Of our people, either out of the cities to fight with an invading enemy: or out of...

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