Psalms Chapter[BR] 144

1 - Blessed be the Lord my God, who instructs my hands for battle, and my fingers for war.

2 My mercy, and my refuge; my helper, and my deliverer; my protector, in whom I have trusted; who subdues my people under me.

3 Lord, what is man, that thou art made known to him? or the son of man, that thou takest account of him?

Psalms Chapter[BR] 144

4 Man is like to vanity: his days pass as a shadow.

5 O Lord, bow thy heavens, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.

6 Send lightning, and thou shalt scatter them: send forth thine arrows, and thou shalt discomfit them.

7 Send forth thine hand from on high; rescue me, and deliver me out of *Gr. many great waters, out of the hand of strange children;

Psalms Chapter[BR] 144

8 whose mouth has spoken vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of iniquity.

9 O God, I will sing a new song to thee: I will play to thee on a psaltery of ten strings.

10 Even to him who gives *Or, victory salvation to kings: who redeems his servant David from the hurtful sword.

Psalms Chapter[BR] 144

11 Deliver me, and rescue me from the hand of strange children, whose mouth has spoken vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of iniquity;

12 whose children are as plants, strengthened in their youth: their daughters are beautiful, sumptuously adorned after the similitude of a temple.

13 Their garners are full, and bursting with one kind of store after another; their sheep are prolific, multiplying in their streets.

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14 Their oxen are fat: there is no falling down of a hedge, nor going out, nor cry in their *Or, habitations folds.

15 Men bless the people to whom this lot belongs, but blessed is the people whose God is the Lord.