A NEW SONG TO MY GOD

Psalm 144:1-15 / Keywords 144:9

I will sing a new song to you, O God; on the ten-stringed lyre I will make music to you,

 

Psalm 144

Of David.

1 Praise be to the Lord my Rock,

    who trains my hands for war,

    my fingers for battle.

2 He is my loving God and my fortress,

    my stronghold and my deliverer,

my shield, in whom I take refuge,

    who subdues peoples[a] under me.

3 Lord, what are human beings that you care for them,

    mere mortals that you think of them?

4 They are like a breath;

    their days are like a fleeting shadow.

5 Part your heavens, Lord, and come down;

    touch the mountains, so that they smoke.

6 Send forth lightning and scatter the enemy;

    shoot your arrows and rout them.

7 Reach down your hand from on high;

    deliver me and rescue me

from the mighty waters,

    from the hands of foreigners

8 whose mouths are full of lies,

    whose right hands are deceitful.

9 I will sing a new song to you, my God;

    on the ten-stringed lyre I will make music to you,

10 to the One who gives victory to kings,

    who delivers his servant David.

From the deadly sword 11 deliver me;

    rescue me from the hands of foreigners

whose mouths are full of lies,

    whose right hands are deceitful.

12 Then our sons in their youth

    will be like well-nurtured plants,

and our daughters will be like pillars

    carved to adorn a palace.

13 Our barns will be filled

    with every kind of provision.

Our sheep will increase by thousands,

    by tens of thousands in our fields;

14     our oxen will draw heavy loads.[b]

There will be no breaching of walls,

    no going into captivity,

    no cry of distress in our streets.

15 Blessed is the people of whom this is true;

    blessed is the people whose God is the Lord.

Footnotes

a. Psalm 144:2 Many manuscripts of the Masoretic Text, Dead Sea Scrolls, Aquila, Jerome and Syriac; most manuscripts of the Masoretic Text subdues my people

b. Psalm 144:14 Or our chieftains will be firmly established

1. David praises God for training him for war (1). God’s leading on our life also trains us for spiritual battle. We can be confident that he will equip us for everything we will face when we put on the attitude of a good soldier of Jesus. David visualizes God defeating his enemies with his power like lightning and arrows (5-6). However, David also understands that human life in the body is short and frail, which makes God’s love and care for us all the more wonderful to contemplate (3-4).

 

2. David also meditates on a coming time of the outpouring of God’s blessing according to his promise (12-14). All of God’s people can have this hope (15). 3. When David considers all God’s goodness, he wants to sing a new song to God (9); it is because he meditates on God’s grace very personally. We can have a new song in our hearts as we apply our knowledge of God’s goodness to our specific life situation.

 

Prayer Heavenly Father, thank you for training me for spiritual battle. I want to meditate on all the ways you help me, until a new song enters my heart.

One Word God fills my heart with music