A Song to the Lord Who Preserves and Prospers His People
A Psalm of David.
My high tower and my deliverer,
My shield and the One in whom I take refuge,
Who subdues1 my people under me.
Or the son of man, that You are mindful of him?
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Psalms 144:1
Blessed be the Lord my strength - Margin, as in Hebrew, "my rock." See the notes at Psalms 18:46, where the same expression occurs in the Hebrew.
Which teacheth my hands to war - Hebrew, "To the war." See the notes at Psalms 18:34. The Hebrew is not precisely alike, but the sense is the same.
And my fingers to fight - Hebrew, my fingers to the fight. That is, he teaches my fingers so that I can skillfully use them in battle. Probably the immediate reference here is to the use of the bow - placing the arrow, and drawing the string.
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