Introduction
The psalmist praises God for his goodness, Psalm 144:1 , Psalm 144:2 . Exclamations relative to the vanity of human life, Psalm 144:3 , Psalm 144:4 . He prays against his enemies, Psalm 144:5-8 ; and extols God's mercy for the temporal blessings enjoyed by his people, Psalm 144:9-15 .
The Hebrew, and all the Versions, attribute this Psalm to David. The Vulgate, Septuagint, Ethiopic, and Arabic, term it, A Psalm of David against Goliath. The Syriac says, "A Psalm of David when he slew Asaph, the brother of Goliath." Calmet thinks, and with much probability, that it was composed by David after the death of Absalom, and the restoration of the kingdom to peace and tranquillity. From a collation of this with Psalm 18, of which it appears to be an abridgment, preserving the same ideas, and the same forms of expression, there can be no doubt of both having proceeded from the same pen, and that David was the author. There is scarcely an expression here of peculiar importance that is not found in the prototype; and for explanation I must refer generally to the above Psalm.
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