Man. Hebrew. 'adam. App-14.
Man is like to vanity - See the notes at Psalms 39:5-6 ; Psalms 62:9 . The idea here is, that man can be compared only with that which is utter...
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 t...
Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away. Man is like to vanity - אדם להבל דמה Adam lahebel damah, literally, Adam is like...
Lord, what it man, &c.?— This is spoken in rapture; reflecting on the regard that God had shewn to his petition, which, in his usual way, he re...
Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away. Man is like to vanity (Hebrew, hebel ( H1892 ), a vapour): his days...
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...
Vanity... shadow. — See Psalms 39:5-6 ; Psalms 102:11 . The occasion of the introduction of these sentiments here is not quite clear. It may be t...
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...
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 chief...
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 appre...
These verses are as a clue enabling us to apply the whole to Christ. In proof, read Psalms 8:4 , explained by Hebrews 2:6 , to the end. To add any...
Man is like to vanity ,.... Is vanity itself, in every age, state, and condition; yea, in his best estate, Psalms 39:5 ; or, "to the breath" h of t...
Man is like to vanity: his days [are] as a shadow that passeth away. Ver. 4. Man is like to vanity ] See Psalms 39:6 ; Psalms 62:9 . Adam Abelo...
Lord, what is man He magnifies and illustrates God's goodness to him, by the consideration of his own meanness. Though I am a king over my people,...
Grateful Acknowledgments of Divine Goodness; Prayer for Success against Enemies....
Man is like, in his nature and continuance in the world, to vanity, or to a vapour or a breath , as Isaiah 57:13 , which is gone in an instan...
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...
A Psalm of David. No doubt written after some great victory, and also before another severe struggle. The Christian man seldom escapes from one diffi...
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...
Blessed be the Lord my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight. The Lord teaching us to fight I do not know what that...
Lord, what is man, that Thou takest knowledge of him! The vanity of man; and Christianity its antidote We must take care, in denouncing human...
His days are as a shadow. Human life a shadow I. A shadow is compounded of light and darkness; for when no object intercepts the light of the s...
EXPOSITION A PSALM in which praise and prayer are commingled. Almost certainly Davidic: 1. From the title. 2. From the style. 3. Fr...
Thanksgiving and Prayer for Deliverance. A psalm of David, in which he praises God for help experienced in the past and confidently implores His a...
Man is like to vanity, like a breath which is gone before it is noticed; his days are as a shadow that passeth away, Psalms 102:11 . All the firme...
1 Chronicles 29:15 ; 2 Samuel 14:14 ; Ecclesiastes 1:14 ; Ecclesiastes 1:2 ; Ecclesiastes 12:8 ; Ecclesiastes 8:13 ; Job 14:1-3 ; Job 4:19 ;...
4 Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.