Psalms 144:2
my loving kindness, and my fortress, my high tower, and my deliverer, my shield, and he in whom I take refuge, who subdues my people under me.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
1Blessed be LORD, my rock, who teaches my hands to war, [and] my fingers to fight,
Cross References
2 Samuel 22:40For thou have girded me with strength to the battle. Thou have subdued under me those who rose up against me.
Psalms 18:47even the God who executes vengeance for me, and subdues peoples under me.
Psalms 84:9Behold, O God our shield, and look upon the face of thine anointed.
Psalms 110:3Thy people offer themselves willingly in the day of thy power, in holy array. Out of the womb of the morning thou have the dew of thy youth.
Jeremiah 16:19O LORD, my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge in the day of affliction, to thee the nations shall come from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies, [even] vanity and things in whic
Matthew Henry on Psalms 144:2-9
Grateful Acknowledgments of Divine Goodness; Prayer for Success against Enemies. 1 Blessed be the Lord my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight: 2 My goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and he in whom I trust; who subdueth my people under me. 3 Lord , what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him! or the son of man, that thou makest account of him! 4 Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away. 5 Bow thy heavens, O Lord , and… Read the whole commentary →