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Psalms 144

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1 <<A Psalm of David.>> Blessed be the LORD my strength, who teacheth my hands to war and my fingers to fight;
1 Praise be to the LORD my Rock, who trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle.
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.
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 LORD, what is man that Thou takest notice of 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 Man is like vanity; his days are as a shadow that passeth away.
4 They are like a breath; their days are like a fleeting shadow.
5 Bow Thy heavens, O LORD, and come down; touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
5 Part your heavens, LORD, and come down; touch the mountains, so that they smoke.
6 Cast forth lightning and scatter them; shoot out Thine arrows and destroy them.
6 Send forth lightning and scatter the enemy; shoot your arrows and rout them.
7 Send Thine hand from above; rescue me and deliver me out of great waters from the hand of strangers,
7 Reach down your hand from on high; deliver me and rescue me from the mighty waters, from the hands of foreigners
8 whose mouth speaketh vanity and whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
8 whose mouths are full of lies, whose right hands are deceitful.
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.
9 I will sing a new song to you, my God; on the ten-stringed lyre I will make music to you,
10 It is He that giveth salvation unto kings, who delivereth David His servant from the hurtful sword.
10 to the One who gives victory to kings, who delivers his servant David. From the deadly sword
11 Rescue me and deliver me from the hand of strangers, whose mouth speaketh vanity and whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood,
11 deliver me; rescue me from the hands of foreigners whose mouths are full of lies, whose right hands are deceitful.
12 that our sons may be as plants full grown in their youth, that our daughters may be as cornerstones, polished after the similitude of a palace;
12 Then our sons in their youth will be like well-nurtured plants, and our daughters will be like pillars carved to adorn a palace.
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;
13 Our barns will be filled with every kind of provision. Our sheep will increase by thousands, by tens of thousands in our fields;
14 that our oxen may be strong to labor, that there be no breaking in, nor going out, that there be no complaining in our streets.
14 our oxen will draw heavy loads.There will be no breaching of walls, no going into captivity, no cry of distress in our streets.
15 Happy is that people for whom such is the case; yea, happy is that people whose God is the LORD.
15 Blessed is the people of whom this is true; blessed is the people whose God is the LORD.
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