Psalm 144

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This first of David’s victory psalms - a song of trust and surrender.

Psalm 144 

vs.1 Blessed be the Lord, my rock,

    who trains my hands for war,

    and my fingers for battle;

***David remembers to whom the battle belongs…and Who it is that fights for him (1Samuel17:45-47)***

vs.2 HE…is my steadfast love and my fortress,

    my stronghold and my deliverer,

my shield and he in whom I take refuge,

    who subdues peoples under me.

vs.3 O Lord, what is man that you regard him,

    or the son of man that you think of him?

vs.4 Man is like a breath;

    his days are like a passing shadow.

***To put this in David’s words: “Who am I, and what have I done, that you would honor me so?”

See 

Ezekiel 34:23-24

Jeremiah 30:9***

vs.5 Bow your heavens, O Lord, and come down!

    Touch the mountains so that they smoke!

vs.6 Flash forth the lightning and scatter them;

    send out your arrows and rout them!

***This is exactly what will happen - 

See Zechariah 14:1-5***

vs.7 Stretch out your hand from on high;

    rescue me and deliver me from the many waters,

    from the hand of foreigners,

vs.8 whose mouths speak lies

    and whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

***Is David speaking only for himself…

or, as the king of Israel, is he seeing prophetically…of Israel’s miraculous deliverance by the Hand of God…even at the very end?

Hallelujah!***

vs.9 I will sing a new song to you, O God;

    upon a ten-stringed harp I will play to you,

vs.10 who gives victory to kings,

    who rescues David his servant from the cruel sword.

vs.11 Rescue me and deliver me

    from the hand of foreigners,

whose mouths speak lies

    and whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

(Revelation 21:8)

vs.12 May our sons in their youth

    be like plants full grown,

our daughters like corner pillars

    cut for the structure of a palace;

vs.13 may our granaries be full,

    providing all kinds of produce;

may our sheep bring forth thousands

    and ten thousands in our fields;

vs.14 may our cattle be heavy with young,

    suffering no mishap or failure in bearing;

may there be no cry of distress in our streets!

See:Zechariah 

ch.9:8;

ch.14:6-11

Exodus 3:17 - fulfillment 

***Because David knows that in the end, God Himself will deliver Israel…from ALL her enemies - 

And that, as promised, one of his descendants (Yeshua) will sit on the throne…forever!

This is why, in the face of great adversity, he still speaks today, exhorting us, earnestly and with firm assurance, to…

“Wait for the Lord;

    be strong, and let your heart take courage;

         Wait for the Lord! (Psalm 27:14)***

vs.15 Blessed are the people to whom such blessings fall!

    Blessed are the people whose God is the Lord!

See Revelation 22…God’s eternal Rest