Psalm 144

1. 1

   Blessed be the LORD my rock! *
   who trains my hands to fight and my fingers to battle;

2. 2

   My help and my fortress, my stronghold and my deliverer, *
   my shield in whom I trust, who subdues the peoples under me.

3. 3

   O LORD, what are we that you should care for us? *
   mere mortals that you should think of us?

4. 4

   We are like a puff of wind; *
   our days are like a passing shadow.

5. 5

   Bow your heavens, O LORD, and come down; *
   touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.

6. 6

   Hurl the lightning and scatter them; *
   shoot out your arrows and rout them.

7. 7

   Stretch out your hand from on high; *
   rescue me and deliver me from the great waters, from the hand of foreign peoples,

8. 8

   Whose mouths speak deceitfully *
   and whose right hand is raised in falsehood.

9. 9

   O God, I will sing to you a new song; *
   I will play to you on a ten-stringed lyre.

10. 10

    You give victory to kings *
    and have rescued David your servant.

11. 11

    Rescue me from the hurtful sword *
    and deliver me from the hand of foreign peoples,

12. 12

    Whose mouths speak deceitfully *
    and whose right hand is raised in falsehood.

13. 13

    May our sons be like plants well nurtured from their youth, *
    and our daughters like sculptured corners of a palace.

14. 14

    May our barns be filled to overflowing with all manner of crops; *
    may the flocks in our pastures increase by thousands and tens of thousands; may our cattle be fat and sleek.

15. 15

    May there be no breaching of the walls, no going into exile, *
    no wailing in the public squares.

16. 16

    Happy are the people of whom this is so! *
    happy are the people whose God is the LORD!

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