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Chapter 144
Psal JPS 144:1  A Psalm of David. Blessed be HaShem my Rock, who traineth my hands for war, and my fingers for battle;
Psal JPS 144:2  My lovingkindness, and my fortress, my high tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and He in whom I take refuge; who subdueth my people under me.
Psal JPS 144:3  HaShem, what is man, that Thou takest knowledge of him? or the son of man, that Thou makest account of him?
Psal JPS 144:4  Man is like unto a breath; his days are as a shadow that passeth away.
Psal JPS 144:5  O HaShem, bow Thy heavens, and come down; touch the mountains, that they may smoke.
Psal JPS 144:6  Cast forth lightning, and scatter them; send out Thine arrows, and discomfit them.
Psal JPS 144:7  Stretch forth Thy hands from on high; rescue me, and deliver me out of many waters, out of the hand of strangers;
Psal JPS 144:8  Whose mouth speaketh falsehood, and their right hand is a right hand of lying.
Psal JPS 144:9  O G-d, I will sing a new song unto Thee, upon a psaltery of ten strings will I sing praises unto Thee;
Psal JPS 144:10  Who givest salvation unto kings, who rescuest David Thy servant from the hurtful sword.
Psal JPS 144:11  Rescue me, and deliver me out of the hand of strangers, whose mouth speaketh falsehood, and their right hand is a right hand of lying.
Psal JPS 144:12  We whose sons are as plants grown up in their youth; whose daughters are as corner-pillars carved after the fashion of a palace;
Psal JPS 144:13  Whose garners are full, affording all manner of store; whose sheep increase by thousands and ten thousands in our fields;
Psal JPS 144:14  Whose oxen are well laden; with no breach, and no going forth, and no outcry in our broad places;
Psal JPS 144:15  Happy is the people that is in such a case. Yea, happy is the people whose G-d is HaShem.