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Psalms 144:1-6

1 (143-1) Blessed be the Lord my God, who teacheth my hands to fight, and my fingers to war.

1 Praise be to the LORD my Rock, who trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle.

2 (143-2) My mercy, and my refuge: my support, and my deliverer: My protector, and I have hoped in him: who subdueth my people under me.

2 He is my loving God and my fortress, my stronghold and my deliverer, my shield, in whom I take refuge, who subdues peoples under me.

3 (143-3) Lord, what is man, that thou art made known to him? or the son of man, that thou makest account of him?

3 LORD, what are human beings that you care for them, mere mortals that you think of them?

4 (143-4) Man is like to vanity: his days pass away like a shadow.

4 They are like a breath; their days are like a fleeting shadow.

5 (143-5) Lord, bow down thy heavens and descend: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.

5 Part your heavens, LORD, and come down; touch the mountains, so that they smoke.

6 (143-6) Send forth lightning, and thou shalt scatter them: shoot out thy arrows, and thou shalt trouble them.

6 Send forth lightning and scatter the enemy; shoot your arrows and rout them.

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