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Chapter 143
Psal CPDV 143:1  A Psalm of David versus Goliath. Blessed is the Lord, my God, who trains my hands for the battle and my fingers for the war.
Psal CPDV 143:2  My mercy and my refuge, my supporter and my deliverer, my protector and him in whom I have hoped: he subdues my people under me.
Psal CPDV 143:3  O Lord, what is man that you have become known to him? Or the son of man that you consider him?
Psal CPDV 143:4  Man has been made similar to vanity. His days pass by like a shadow.
Psal CPDV 143:5  O Lord, incline your heavens and descend. Touch the mountains, and they will smoke.
Psal CPDV 143:6  Send a flash of lightning, and you will scatter them. Shoot your arrows, and you will set them in disarray.
Psal CPDV 143:7  Send forth your hand from on high: rescue me, and free me from many waters, from the hand of the sons of foreigners.
Psal CPDV 143:8  Their mouth has been speaking vain things, and their right hand is the right hand of iniquity.
Psal CPDV 143:9  To you, O God, I will sing a new song. On the psaltery, with an instrument of ten strings, I will sing psalms to you.
Psal CPDV 143:10  He gives salvation to kings. He has redeemed your servant David from the malignant sword.
Psal CPDV 143:11  Rescue me, and deliver me from the hand of the sons of foreigners. Their mouth has been speaking vain things, and their right hand is the right hand of iniquity.
Psal CPDV 143:12  Their sons are like new plantings in their youth. Their daughters are dressed up: adorned all around like the idols of a temple.
Psal CPDV 143:13  Their cupboards are full: overflowing from one thing into another. Their sheep bear young, brought forth in abundance.
Psal CPDV 143:14  Their cattle are fat. There is no ruined wall or passage, nor anyone crying out in their streets.
Psal CPDV 143:15  They have called the people that has these things: blessed. But blessed is the people whose God is the Lord.