He teaches my hands to make war, so that a bow of bronze is bent by my arms.
All Commentaries on Psalms 18:34 Go To Psalms 18
George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
And thou. Chaldean gives the same sense. "He strengthens "(Calmet)
Hebrew, "and a brazen bow is broken by my arms. "(Montanus)
Protestants, "a bow of steel. "Perhaps not knowing that the ancients had the art of making brass answer the same purposes. See Proclus, Hesiod (Haydock)
They made all sorts of weapons of it. Job (xx. 24.) seems even to insinuate that it was harder than iron. Our brass is too brittle. To break a bow, often means to obtain a victory, 1 Kings ii. 4., and Jeremias xlix. 5. (Calmet)
David gained many over a lion or a bear, over Goliath (Worthington)
