Psalms 144:1-2
David <01732> [(Title.) A Psalm of David.]
Calmet and others think that this Psalm was composed by David after the death of Absalom; and from a collation of it with Ps 18, in which the same ideas and form of expression occur, there can be no doubt of both having proceeded from the same pen, and that David was the author.
protector <06697> [my strength. Heb. my rock.]
trains <03925> [teacheth.]
battle <07128> [to war. or, to the war, etc.]
loves <02617> [My goodness. or, mercy. my fortress.]
submit <07286> [who subdueth.]
Psalms 22:1
Doe <0365> [A.M. 2962. B.C. 1042. (Title.) Aijeleth. or, the hind of the morning.]
God ... God <0410> [my God.]
abandoned <05800> [why hast.]
far away <07350> [far.]
help <03444> [helping. Heb. my salvation.]
prayer <01697> [words.]
Isaiah 28:6
discernment <07307> [for a spirit.]
strength <01369> [and for strength.]
Isaiah 45:1
chosen one <04899> [to his.]
right hand <03225> [whose.]
hold <02388> [holden. or, strengthened.]
subdue <07286> [to subdue.]
open <06605> [to open.]
All the streets of Babylon, leading on each side to the river, were secured by two leaved brazen gates, and these were providentially left open when Cyrus's forces entered the city in the night, through the channel of the river, in the general disorder occasioned by the great feast which was then celebrated; otherwise, says Herodotus, the Persians would have been shut up in the bed of the river, as in a net, and all destroyed. The gates of the palace were also imprudently opened to ascertain the occasion of the tumult; when the two parties under Gobrias and Gadatas rushed in, got possession of the palace, and slew the king.
