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Chapter 144
Psal LEB 144:1  Blessed be Yahweh, my rock, the one who trains my hands for battle, my fingers for war—
Psal LEB 144:2  my loyal love and my fortress, my stronghold and my deliverer, my shield, and one in whom I take refuge, the one who subdues peoples under me.
Psal LEB 144:3  O Yahweh, what is humankind that you take knowledge of him, or the son of man that you take thought of him?
Psal LEB 144:4  Humankind is like a breath, his days like a passing shadow.
Psal LEB 144:5  O Yahweh, bow the heavens and come down; touch the mountains so that they smoke.
Psal LEB 144:6  Flash forth lightning and scatter them; dispatch your arrows and rout them.
Psal LEB 144:7  Stretch out your hands from on high; Rescue me and deliver me from many waters, from the hand of foreigners,
Psal LEB 144:8  whose mouth speaks falsely, and their right hand is a false right hand.
Psal LEB 144:9  O God, I will sing a new song to you. With a lyre of ten strings I will sing praise to you,
Psal LEB 144:10  who gives victory to kings, who rescues David his servant from the evil sword.
Psal LEB 144:11  Rescue me and deliver me from the hand of foreigners, whose mouth speaks falsely, and whose right hand is a false right hand,
Psal LEB 144:12  that our sons may be like plants, full grown in their youth, our daughters like corner pillars, carved in the style of a palace,
Psal LEB 144:13  that our granaries may be full, providing produce of all kinds, that our sheep may produce by the thousands, by the tens of thousands in our open fields,
Psal LEB 144:14  that our cattle may be pregnant; that there be no breach in our walls, and no going out in exile, and no outcry in our plazas.
Psal LEB 144:15  Blessed are the people who have it thus. Blessed are the people whose God is Yahweh.