AB - Psalms - 144

144:1  A Psalm of David concerning Goliath. Blessed be the Lord my God, who instructs my hands for battle, and my fingers for war.

144:2  My mercy, and my refuge; my helper, and my deliverer; my protector, in whom I have trusted; who subdues my people under me.

144:3  Lord, what is man, that You are made known to him? Or the son of man, that You take account of him?

144:4  Man is likened unto vanity: his days pass as a shadow.

144:5  O Lord, bow Your heavens, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.

144:6  Send lightning, and You shall scatter them: send forth Your arrows, and You shall discomfit them.

144:7  Send forth Your hand from on high; rescue me, and deliver me out of great waters, out of the hand of strange children;

144:8  whose mouth has spoken vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of iniquity.

144:9  O God, I will sing a new song to You: I will play to You on a psaltery of ten strings.

144:10  Even to Him who gives salvation to kings: who redeems His servant David from the hurtful sword.

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;

144:12  whose children are as plants, strengthened in their youth: their daughters are beautiful, sumptuously adorned after the likeness of a temple.

144:13  Their garners are full, and bursting with one kind of store after another; their sheep are prolific, multiplying in their streets.

144:14  Their oxen are fat: there is no falling down of a hedge, nor going out, nor cry in their folds.

144:15  Men bless the people to whom this lot belongs, but blessed are the people whose God is the Lord.