ABP - Psalms - 144

144:1  Blessed be the lord my God; the one teaching my hands for battle array, and my fingers for war;

144:2  my mercy and my refuge; my shielder and my rescuer; my defender, and upon him I hoped; the one subjecting my people under me.

144:3  O lord, what is man that you were known to him? or the son of man that you should consider him?

144:4  Man [2folly 1is like]; his days as a shadow pass by.

144:5  O lord, lean your heavens, and come down! Touch the mountains! and they shall smoke.

144:6  Flash lightning! and you shall disperse them. Send out your arrows! and you shall disturb them.

144:7  Send out your hand from the height! Take me, and rescue me from [2waters 1many], from out of the hand of the sons of strangers!

144:8  whose mouth spoke folly, and their right hand is a right hand of iniquity.

144:9  O God, [3ode 2a new 1I will sing] to you; with [2psaltery 1a ten-stringed] I will strum to you,

144:10  to the one giving deliverance to the kings, to the one ransoming David his servant from [2broadsword 1the ferocious].

144:11  Rescue me, and deliver me from the hand of the sons of strangers! whose mouth spoke folly, and their right hand is a right hand of iniquity;

144:12  whom their sons are as newly planted, secure in their youth; their daughters being bedecked, being adorned sumptuously as the likeness of a temple;

144:13  their storerooms are full, discharging forth from out of this one to that one; their sheep are prolific, multiplying in their streets;

144:14  their oxen are thick; there is no ruined fence, nor stream, nor a cry in their broad spaces;

144:15  [3declare them happy 1the 2people] to which these things are. Blessed be the people of which the lord is his God.