Psalms 144
1 Of David. Blessed be the LORD, my rock, who trains my hands for battle, my fingers for war.
2 He is my loyal love and my fortress, my high refuge and my deliverer. He is my shield, in whom I take refuge, the one who subdues my people under me.
3 LORD, what is a human being, that you know him? And the son of man, that you think of him?
4 A human being is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.
5 LORD, bend your heavens and come down; touch the mountains, and they will smoke.
6 Send out lightning and scatter them; shoot your arrows and throw them into panic.
7 Reach out your hands from on high; save me and rescue me from the many waters, from the hand of foreigners.
8 Their mouths speak falsehood, and their right hands are right hands of deceit.
9 God, I will sing a new song to you; I will play for you on a ten-stringed lyre.
10 He is the one who gives victory to kings, who rescues David, his servant, from the cruel sword.
11 Save me and rescue me from the hand of foreigners. Their mouths speak falsehood, and their right hands are right hands of deceit.
12 May our sons be like well-grown plants in their youth, and our daughters like sculpted pillars for a palace.
13 May our storehouses be full, providing every kind of produce, and may our sheep multiply by thousands and tens of thousands in our fields.
14 May our oxen be heavily laden; may there be no breach or escape, and no cry in our squares.
15 Happy is the people to whom this happens! Happy is the people whose God is the LORD!
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