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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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" ...
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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...
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אַשְׁרֵ֣י הָ֭ עָם שֶׁ כָּ֣כָה לֹּ֑ו
אַֽשְׁרֵ֥
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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._...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Psalms 144:15 Happy H835 people H5971 state H3602 Happy H835 people
H5971 God H430 LORD H3068
happy -...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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_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...
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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
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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Deuteronomy 33:29; Ephesians 1:3; Psalms 146:5; Psalms 33:12; Psa