Verš 1
Blessed be the LORD my strength which teaches my hands to war, and my fingers to fight:
2Sam 22:35 - "He teaches my hands to war; so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms. "
Ž 18:34 - He teaches my hands to war, so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms.
Verš 2
"My goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and he in whom I trust; who subdues my people under me. "
2Sam 22:48 - It is God that avenges me, and that brings down the people under me.
Ž 18:47 - It is God that avenges me, and subdues the people under me.
Verš 3
LORD, what is man, that you take knowledge of him! or the son of man, that you make account of him!
Jób 7:17 - What is man, that you should magnify him? and that you should set your heart upon him?
Ž 8:4 - What is man, that you are mindful of him? and the son of man, that you visit him?
Ž 31:7 - "I will be glad and rejoice in your mercy: for you have considered my trouble; you have known my soul in adversities; "
Heb 2:6 - But one in a certain place testified, saying, What is man, that you are mindful of him? or the son of man that you visit him?
Verš 4
Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passes away.
Ž 39:5 - "Behold, you have made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before you: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah. "
Ž 62:9 - Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.
Jób 8:9 - (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:)
Jób 14:2 - He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down: he flees also as a shadow, and continues not.
Ž 102:11 - "My days are like a shadow that declines; and I am withered like grass. "
Verš 5
Bow your heavens, O LORD, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
Ž 18:9 - He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness was under his feet.
Ž 18:7 - "Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was angry. "
Ž 104:32 - He looks on the earth, and it trembles: he touches the hills, and they smoke.
Verš 6
Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out your arrows, and destroy them.
2Sam 22:8 - "Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations of heaven moved and shook, because he was angry. "
Ž 18:14 - "Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out lightnings, and humiliated them. "
1Sam 7:10 - "And as Samuel was offering up the burnt offering, the Philistines drew near to battle against Israel: but the LORD thundered with a great thunder on that day upon the Philistines, and humiliated them; and they were smitten before Israel. "
Z 144 - Prvá časť žalmu (1-11) je poskladaná z iných žalmov, najmä z 8, 18, 33, 104.
Z 144,1-2 - Kráľ Dávid je pred bojom. Vie však, že ak Pán nebude pomáhať a ak on nezlomí nepriateľa, všetko úsilie by bolo daromné.
Z 144,5-6 - Dúfa, že Pán mimoriadnym spôsobom zasiahne na ochranu svojho ľudu. Má sa to stať za pomoci búrky, v ktorej Pán prejavoval svoju moc a hrôzu.
Z 144,7 - Prívaly, veľké vody sú vo Svätom písme symbolom veľkého nebezpečenstva (Ž 18,17).
Z 144,8 - "Krivoprísažná pravica", pars pro toto, označuje tých, čo falošne a skrivodlivo prisahali. Pri prísahe zdvíhali pravú ruku (Ž 137,5).
Z 144,12-15 - Žalmista prosí o požehnanie, pokoj a blahobyt pre svoj národ.
