| 144:1 |
Praise be to the LORD my Rock, who trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle. |
| 144:2 |
He is my loving God and my fortress, my stronghold and my deliverer, my shield, in whom I take refuge, who subdues peoples under me. |
| 144:3 |
O LORD, what is man that you care for him, the son of man that you think of him? |
| 144:4 |
Man is like a breath; his days are like a fleeting shadow. |
| 144:5 |
Part your heavens, O LORD, and come down; touch the mountains, so that they smoke. |
| 144:6 |
Send forth lightning and scatter the enemies; shoot your arrows and rout them. |
| 144:7 |
Reach down your hand from on high; deliver me and rescue me from the mighty waters, from the hands of foreigners |
| 144:8 |
whose mouths are full of lies, whose right hands are deceitful. |
| 144:9 |
I will sing a new song to you, O God; on the ten-stringed lyre I will make music to you, |
| 144:10 |
to the One who gives victory to kings, who delivers his servant David from the deadly sword. |
| 144:11 |
Deliver me and rescue me from the hands of foreigners whose mouths are full of lies, whose right hands are deceitful. |
| 144:12 |
Then our sons in their youth will be like well-nurtured plants, and our daughters will be like pillars carved to adorn a palace. |
| 144:13 |
Our barns will be filled with every kind of provision. Our sheep will increase by thousands, by tens of thousands in our fields; |
| 144:14 |
our oxen will draw heavy loads. There will be no breaching of walls, no going into captivity, no cry of distress in our streets. |
| 144:15 |
Blessed are the people of whom this is true; blessed are the people whose God is the LORD. |
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