Psalms 144:14
May our oxen be strong to labor: may there be no breach, nor migration, nor loud complaint in our streets.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
15Happy the people, that fare thus: happy the people, whose God is the Lord.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:7The Lord will cause thy enemies that rise up against thee to be smitten before thy face: on one way shall they come out against thee, and on seven ways shall they flee before thee.
Judges 5:8They chose new gods, then was there war in the gates: was there a shield seen or a spear among forty thousand in Israel?
Judges 6:6And Israel was greatly impoverished because of the Midianites; and the children of Israel cried unto the Lord.
1 Samuel 31:7And when the men of Israel that were on the other side of the valley, and those that were on the other side of the Jordan, saw that the men of Israel had fled, and that Saul and his sons had died: they forsook the cities, and fled away; and the Philistines came and dwelt in them.
Isaiah 24:11A [painful] cry for wine is in the streets; darkened is all joy; banished is the mirth of the land.
Jeremiah 13:17But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places because of [your] pride; and my eye shall weep sorely, and run down with tears, because the flock of the Lord is driven away captive.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 144:10-15
Thanksgiving and Petitions; National Happiness Desired. 9 I will sing a new song unto thee, O God: upon a psaltery and an instrument of ten strings will I sing praises unto thee. 10 It is he that giveth salvation unto kings: who delivereth David his servant from the hurtful sword. 11 Rid me, and deliver me from the hand of strange children, whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood: 12 That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that our daughters may be as corner… Read the whole commentary →