Blessed be the LORD my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight:
Psalms 144:1-15.-Blessed be Yahweh, my strength, in subduing my enemies (Psalms 144:1-2). How marvelous that thou shouldest regard frail man! (Psalms 144:2; Psalms 144:4). Bow thy heavens and come down to save me (Psalms 144:5-8). I will praise thee already for salvation anticipated by faith (Psalms 144:9-10). Rid me from strange children who speak vanity, that our children may be as vigorous plants and as polished stones (Psalms 144:11-12); that abundant stores may be ours, and no complainings (Psalms 144:13-14); Epiphonema: Happy are they whose God is Yahweh (Psalms 144:15). David herein applies much of the 18th psalm in a new relation. The grateful review there of God's mercies to himself is in the first part here applied to the edification of his seed and nation. This is the transition psalm from the Prayer-Psalms 138:1-8; Psalms 139:1-24; Psalms 140:1-13; Psalms 141:1-10; Psalms 142:1-7; Psalms 143:1-12; Psalms 144:1-15; Psalms 145:1-21 to the concluding Praise-Psalms 145:1-21. Cf Psalms 144:9-10.
Blessed be the Lord my strength - Hebrew, my rock; from Psalms 18:2; Psalms 18:31; Psalms 18:46. Which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight - from Psalms 18:34. It is not merely David, but David's seed and the elect nation that say so. In Psalms 144:1-2 David sets forth God's relations to him; and on this and God's condescension he grounds the prayer (Psalms 144:5) that God would deliver him and his seed, according to the promise in 2 Samuel 7:1-29.