Psalms 144:1-8

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.

Cross References 21

  • 1. S Genesis 49:24; Psalms 18:2,34
  • 2. Psalms 59:9; Psalms 91:2
  • 3. Psalms 27:1; Psalms 37:39; Psalms 43:2
  • 4. S Genesis 15:1; S Psalms 18:2; Psalms 84:9
  • 5. S Judges 4:23; S Psalms 18:39
  • 6. Psalms 8:4; Hebrews 2:6
  • 7. S Job 7:7; Job 27:3; Isaiah 2:22
  • 8. S 1 Chronicles 29:15; S Job 14:2; S James 4:14; Psalms 39:11; Psalms 102:11
  • 9. Psalms 18:9; Isaiah 64:1
  • 10. S Genesis 11:5; S Psalms 57:3
  • 11. Psalms 104:32
  • 12. Habakkuk 3:11; Zechariah 9:14
  • 13. S Psalms 59:11; S Psalms 68:1
  • 14. Psalms 7:12-13; Psalms 18:14
  • 15. S 2 Samuel 22:17
  • 16. Psalms 3:7; S Psalms 57:3
  • 17. Psalms 69:2
  • 18. S Psalms 18:44
  • 19. Psalms 12:2; Psalms 41:6
  • 20. Genesis 14:22; Deuteronomy 32:40
  • 21. S Psalms 36:3

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. Many manuscripts of the Masoretic Text, Dead Sea Scrolls, Aquila, Jerome and Syriac; most manuscripts of the Masoretic Text "subdues my people"
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