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Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary

Psalms 144:15

This is a correction of the last sentence. This is a very desirable estate; but the true and chief happiness of our Israel doth not consist in these things, which are common to others with us, but in this peculiar privilege, that the true and blessed God is our God by covenant and special relation.

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See also Psalms 144:15 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Psalms 144:15. _HAPPY_ IS THAT _PEOPLE_] "O how happy are the people!" Such were his people; and they had not only all this secular happiness, but they had _Jehovah for their God_; and in him ha...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    HAPPY IS THAT PEOPLE THAT IS IN SUCH A CASE - In such a condition; or, where these things prevail. YEA, HAPPY IS THAT PEOPLE, WHOSE GOD IS THE LORD - Whose God is Yahweh; who worship and serve Him as...

  • 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

    HAPPY. See App-63. in such. case: i.e. holding the false view that happiness consists in outward prosperity. Compare Psalms 4:6; Psalms 4:7, and Psalms 146:3 and...

  • 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

    Happy is the people of Jehovah's choice, to whom He shews such manifest tokens of His favour in temporal prosperity; and yet more truly happy are they in the spiritual blessing of having Jehovah for t...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 740 THE BLESSEDNESS OF THE RIGHTEOUS Psalms 144:15. _Happy is that people that is in such a case: yea, happy is that people whose God is the Lord._ TO inquiries after happiness, one answer...

  • 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

    Happy is that people, that is in such a case: yea, happy is that people, whose God is the LORD. HAPPY (IS THAT) PEOPLE THAT IS IN SUCH A CASE; (YEA), HAPPY (IS THAT) PEOPLE WHOSE GOD (IS) THE LORD....

  • 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...

  • 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

    HAPPY. — It is only a narrow and one-sided religion that can see anything out of place in this beatitude of plenty and peace. If we could rejoice with the psalms, fully and without misgiving, in the t...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    אַשְׁרֵ֣י הָ֭ עָם שֶׁ כָּ֣כָה לֹּ֑ו אַֽשְׁרֵ֥

  • 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

    Happy [is that] people, that is (n) in such a case: [yea], happy [is that] people, whose God [is] the LORD. (n) And if God does not give to all his children all these blessings, yet he replaces them...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    PSALM CXLIV. (EXALTABO TE DEUS.) A psalm of praise, to the infinite majesty of God. _ Hope. For sustenance, Psalm cxxii. 2., and Matthew vi. 26._...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Moses hath a verse similar to this, Deuteronomy 33:29. Who so blessed, who so well taken care of, who so highly favored, as the Israel of God? Reader! all these blessings were types of gospel mercies,...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    15._Happy the people_, _etc_. He thus concludes that the divine favor had been sufficiently shown and manifested to his people. Should any object that it breathed altogether a gross and worldly spirit...

  • 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

    HAPPY [IS THAT] PEOPLE THAT IS IN SUCH A CASE,.... Whose families are in good order and behave well; who enjoy plenty of all good things; whose flocks and herds increase, and who live in peace and pro...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Happy [is that] people, that is in such a case: [yea], happy [is that] people, whose God [is] the LORD. Ver. 15. _Happy is that people_] That hath such a confluence of outward comforts. In Hezekiah's...

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

    _Happy is that people that is in such a case_ The fathers, with many others, have supposed these wishes for _sons, daughters, corn, sheep, oxen_, &c., to be uttered by the _strange children_, the alie...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Happy is that people that is in such a case, whose condition is such as here described; YEA, HAPPY IS THAT PEOPLE WHOSE GOD IS THE LORD; for that, after all, is the greatest blessing, the highest dist...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THANKSGIVING AND PRAYER FOR DELIVERANCE. A psalm of David, in which he praises God for help experienced in the past and confidently implores His assistance against the enemies of the nation, as well...

  • 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...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Psalms 144:15 Happy H835 people H5971 state H3602 Happy H835 people H5971 God H430 LORD H3068 happy -...

  • 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

    _Happy is that people whose God is the Lord._ A HAPPY PEOPLE I. Examine what is comprehended in the relation referred to. This may refer-- 1. To God as the object of religious worship. 2. To Him a...

  • 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

    Deuteronomy 33:29; Ephesians 1:3; Psalms 146:5; Psalms 33:12; Psa

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