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Verse Psalms 144:12. _THAT OUR SONS_ MAY BE _AS PLANTS_] God had
promised to his people, being faithful, THREE _descriptions_ of
BLESSINGS, Deuteronomy 28:4.
1. The _fruit of the body_ - sons and dau...
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THAT OUR SONS MAY BE AS PLANTS GROWN UP IN THEIR YOUTH - That our sons
- not called forth to the hardships of the tent and the field, the
perils and the exposures of war - may grow up under the cultur...
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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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THAT. Who. Hebrew. _'asher_. Supply the Ellipsis thus: "Who [say] our
sons are, &c. "All the words in italic type in verses: Psalms 144:12.
maybe omitted, or the Present Tense may be supplied througho...
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_That our sons_may be like plants well grown in their youth] Cp.
Psalms 128:3. _Plant_denotes a freshly planted sapling sending up its
young shoots, LXX νεόφυτα, cp. Job 14:9. Vergil uses a similar
co...
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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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_PSALMS 144:12_, &C. _THAT OUR SONS MAY BE,_ &C.— _Our sons are like
plants grown tall in their youth; and our daughters like
corner-pillars polished for the ornament of a palace._ Green; who
renders...
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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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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:
THAT OUR SONS MAY BE AS PLANTS GROWN UP IN THEIR YOUTH...
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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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The want of connexion seems to point to a new fragment. OUR DAUGHTERS,
etc.] Two renderings are possible: (1) 'our daughters be draped in
purple cloth like the hangings of a palace,' or (2) 'our daugh...
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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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THAT OUR SONS. — This rendering of the relative, which so strangely
begins this fragment, would be possible after Genesis 11:7; Genesis
13:16, &c, if a finite verb instead of participles followed; or...
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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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(k) 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:
(k) He desires God to continue his benefits...
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_Thy. Hebrew, "his." But the Septuagint read more correctly, with the
Chaldean, &c. --- Men. The Gentiles, to whom the saints, (Berthier) or
converted Jews preached. (Haydock)_...
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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,...
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12._Because our sons_, _etc_. These three concluding verses some
consider as being a wish or a prayer. (271) Others think that David
congratulates himself, and all the people, that through the divine...
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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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THAT OUR SONS [MAY BE] AS PLANTS GROWN UP IN THEIR YOUTH,.... The
Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, Ethiopic, Syriac, and Arabic versions,
read, "whose sons [are as] plants", c. as if this and what follows
w...
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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:
Ver. 12. _That our sons may be as plants, &c._]...
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_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...
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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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that our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth, thriving in
the strength of their youth; THAT OUR DAUGHTERS MAY BE AS
CORNER-STONES, POLISHED AFTER THE SIMILITUDE OF A PALACE, graceful as
the...
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POLISHED:
_ Heb._ cut...
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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 mercy I beg, not only for my own sake, but for the sake of thy
people, that thine and our enemies being subdued, and peace
established in the land, thy people may enjoy those blessings which
thou...
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Psalms 144:12 sons H1121 plants H5195 up H1431 (H8794) youth H5271
daughters H1323 pillars H2106 Sculptured H2404
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Psalms 144:12
I. These two figures express, in different ways, the notions of fixity
and substance. Both plant and column are fixed and steady. The plant
is fixed by its roots into the earth, the colu...
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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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_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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CORNER STONES
(FOR GIRLS.)
Our daughters as cornerstones hewn [cut or shaped] after the fashion
of a palace. Psalms 144:12.
Have you ever watched masons building a house? If you have you will
have...
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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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1 Peter 3:3; Isaiah 3:16; Isaiah 44:3; Job 42:15; Lamentations 4:2;...
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That — This mercy I beg not only for my own sake, but for the sake
of thy people, that they may enjoy those blessings which thou hast
promised them; and particularly, that our sons, who are the streng...