A psalm of David
144
📚✭Blessed be the LORDmy rock,
who trains my hands for war,
and my fingers to fight.
2 📚He is my merciful
one, and my fortress✭,
my high tower, and my deliverer,
my shield, and the one
in whom I trust,
who subdues✭ my people under me.
3 📚✭LORD, what is man, that you
acknowledge him?
Or the son of man,
that you concern
yourself with him?
4 📚Man is like a vapour.
His days are like a shadow
that passes away.
5 📚✭Bow your heavens, O LORD,
and come down!
Touch the mountains and make
them smoke!
6 📚Hurl out lightning bolts and
scatter them!
Shoot out your arrows and
destroy them!
7 📚Send down your hand
from above.
Rescue me, and deliver me
out of great waters,
from the hand of foreigners,
8 📚Whose mouth speaks vanity,
and whose right hand is a
right hand of falsehood.
9 📚✭I will sing a new song to you,
O God.
I will sing praises to you on a lyre
and a ten-stringed
instrument,
10 📚you who give salvation
to kings,
who deliver his servant David
from the deadly sword.
11 📚Rescue me, and deliver me
from the hand
of foreigners,
whose mouth speaks vanity,
and whose right hand is
a right hand of falsehood,
12 📚✭So that our sons may be
like plants✭ grown up in
their youth,
that our daughters may
be like pillars✭,
carved like palace carvings.
13 📚And that our barns
may be full,
furnishing all kinds of provisions,
and that our sheep may
give birth to thousands and
ten thousands in our fields,
14 📚That our oxen
may be strong
to labour,
and that there be no
breaking in,
or going out,
that there be no outcry
in our streets.
15 📚✭Happy are the people
who are in such a condition;
yes, happy are
the people whose God
is the LORD.