Salmos 144:1-9

1 Bendito sea el SEÑOR, mi roca, que adiestra mis manos para la guerra, y mis dedos para la batalla.

2 Misericordia mía y fortaleza mía, mi baluarte y mi libertador, escudo mío en quien me he refugiado, el que sujeta a mi pueblo debajo de mí.

3 Oh SEÑOR, ¿qué es el hombre para que tú lo tengas en cuenta, o el hijo del hombre para que pienses en él?

4 El hombre es semejante a un soplo; sus días son como una sombra que pasa.

5 Oh SEÑOR, inclina tus cielos y desciende; toca los montes para que humeen.

6 Despide relámpagos y dispérsalos; lanza tus flechas y confúndelos.

7 Extiende tu mano desde lo alto; rescátame y líbrame de las muchas aguas, de la mano de extranjeros

8 cuya boca habla falsedad y cuya diestra es diestra de mentira.

9 Oh Dios, un cántico nuevo te cantaré; con arpa de diez cuerdas cantaré alabanzas a ti,

Salmos 144:1-9 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 144

\\<>\\. This psalm was written by David; not on account of the return of the Jews from the Babylonish captivity, by a spirit of prophecy, as Theodoret; but on his own account, after he was come to the throne, and was king over all Israel; and was delivered from the was between him and Israel, and from the war of the Philistines, as Kimchi observes, having gained two victories over them: or it was written between the two victories, and before he had conquered all his enemies; since he prays to be delivered from the hand of strange children, Ps 144:7,11. R. Obadiah thinks it was written on the account of his deliverance from Absalom and Sheba; but the former is best. Some copies of the Septuagint, and also the Vulgate Latin, Ethiopic, and Arabic versions, have in their titles these words, ``against Goliath;'' and so Apollinarius; as if it was written on account of his combat with him, and victory over him; but this clause is not in the Hebrew Bibles; nor could Theodoret find it in the Septuagint in the Hexapla in his time. The Syriac inscription is still more foreign to the purpose, ``a psalm of David, when he slew Asaph the brother of Goliath.'' R. Saadiah Gaon interprets this psalm of the times of the Messiah; and there are several things in it which are applicable to him.