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Douay-Rheims Catholic Bible RHE
1 Blessed be the LORD my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight:
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(143-1) Blessed be the Lord my God, who teacheth my hands to fight, and my fingers to war.
2 My goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and he in whom I trust; who subdueth my people under me.
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(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.
3 LORD, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him! or the son of man, that thou makest account of him!
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(143-3) Lord, what is man, that thou art made known to him? or the son of man, that thou makest account of him?
4 Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.
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(143-4) Man is like to vanity: his days pass away like a shadow.
5 Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
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(143-5) Lord, bow down thy heavens and descend: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
6 Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out thine arrows, and destroy them.
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(143-6) Send forth lightning, and thou shalt scatter them: shoot out thy arrows, and thou shalt trouble them.
7 Send thine hand from above; rid me, and deliver me out of great waters, from the hand of strange children;
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(143-7) Put forth thy hand from on high, take me out, and deliver me from many waters: from the hand of strange children:
8 Whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
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(143-8) Whose mouth hath spoken vanity: and their right hand is the right hand of iniquity.
9 I will sing a new song unto thee, O God: upon a psaltery and an instrument of ten strings will I sing praises unto thee.
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(143-9) To thee, O God, I will sing a new canticle: on the psaltery and an instrument of ten strings I will sing praises to thee.
10 It is he that giveth salvation unto kings: who delivereth David his servant from the hurtful sword.
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(143-10) Who givest salvation to kings: who hast redeemed thy servant David from the malicious sword:
11 Rid me, and deliver me from the hand of strange children, whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood:
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(143-11) Deliver me, And rescue me out of the hand of strange children; whose mouth hath spoken vanity: and their right hand is the right hand of iniquity:
12 That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude of a palace:
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(143-12) Whose sons are as new plants in their youth: Their daughters decked out, adorned round about after the similitude of a temple:
13 That our garners may be full, affording all manner of store: that our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets:
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(143-13) Their storehouses full, flowing out of this into that. Their sheep fruitful in young, abounding in their goings forth:
14 That our oxen may be strong to labour; that there be no breaking in, nor going out; that there be no complaining in our streets.
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(143-14) Their oxen fat. There is no breach of wall, nor passage, nor crying out in their streets.
15 Happy is that people, that is in such a case: yea, happy is that people, whose God is the LORD.
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(143-15) They have called the people happy, that hath these things: but happy is that people whose God is the Lord.
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