Psalms 144:12 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that our daughters may be as corner stones, polishedd after the similitude of a palace: ”

• Psalms 144:12 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  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 c...

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• Psalms 144:12 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  (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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• Psalms 144:12 - 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 144:1-11 is really a mosaic chiefly taken from Psalms 18, but also from Psalms 8, 33, 1...

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• Psalms 144:12 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  That . Who. Hebrew. 'asher . Supply the Ellipsis thus: "Who [say] our sons are, &c. "All the words in italic type in verses: Psalms 144:12-15 . maybe omitted, or the Present Tense may be suppl...

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• Psalms 144:12 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  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 th...

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• Psalms 144:12 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  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 - God had promise...

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• Psalms 144:12 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  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;...

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• Psalms 144:12 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  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...

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• Psalms 144:12 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  This Ps. consists mainly of thoughts and quotations from earlier Pss., e.g. 8 and 18. Psalms 144:12-15 are, however, quite unlike anything else in the Psalter, and some suppose them to be a quotati...

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• Psalms 144:12 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  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 fo...

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• Psalms 144:12 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  Psalms 144:1-15 THE force of compilation could no further go than in this psalm, which is, in the first eleven verses ( Psalms 144:1-11 )simply a rechauffe of known psalms, and in Psalms 144:1...

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• Psalms 144:12 - 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...

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• Psalms 144:12 - 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 p...

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• Psalms 144:12 - 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...

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• Psalms 144:12 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  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 follow...

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• Psalms 144:12 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  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, &amp...

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• Psalms 144:12 - 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...

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• Psalms 144:12 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Thanksgiving and Petitions; National Happiness Desired.       9 I will sing a new song unto thee, O God: upon a psaltery and...

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• Psalms 144:12 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  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 tho...

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• Psalms 144:12 - 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;...

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• Psalms 144:12 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  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...

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• Psalms 144:12 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  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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• Psalms 144:12 - 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 futur...

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• Psalms 144:12 - 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 w...

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• Psalms 144:12 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  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...

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• Psalms 144:12 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  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 we...

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• Psalms 144:12 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Peter 3:3-6 ; Isaiah 3:16-24 ; Isaiah 44:3-5 ; Job 42:15 ; Lamentations 4:2 ; Proverbs 31:10-27 ; Psalms 115:14 ; Psalms 115:15 ; Psalms 127:4 ; Psalms 127:5 ; Psalms 128:3 ; Song of So...

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• Psalms 144:12 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  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 str...

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