Psalms 144

1 [A Psalm] of David concerning Goliad. Blessed [be] the Lord my God, who instructs my hands for battle, [and] my fingers for war.

[A Psalm] of David. Blessed [be] the LORD my strength, who teacheth my hands to war, [and] my fingers to fight;

2 My mercy, and my refuge; my helper, and my deliverer; my protector, in whom I have trusted; who subdues my people under me.

My goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and [he] in whom I trust; who subdueth my people under me.

3 Lord, what is man, that thou art made known to him? or the son of man, that thou takest account of him?

LORD, what [is] man, that thou takest knowledge of him! [or] the son of man, that thou makest account of him!

4 Man is like to vanity: his days pass as a shadow.

Man is like to vanity: his days [are] as a shadow that passeth away.

5 O Lord, bow thy heavens, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.

Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.

6 Send lightning, and thou shalt scatter them: send forth thine arrows, and thou shalt discomfit them.

Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot thy arrows, and destroy them.

7 Send forth thine hand from on high; rescue me, and deliver me out of great waters, out of the hand of strange children;

Send thy hand from above; rid me, and deliver me out of great waters, from the hand of strange children;

8 whose mouth has spoken vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of iniquity.

Whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand [is] a right hand of falsehood.

9 O God, I will sing a new song to thee: I will play to thee on a psaltery of ten strings.

I will sing a new song to thee, O God: upon a psaltery [and] an instrument of ten strings will I sing praises to thee.

10 [Even] to him who gives salvation to kings: who redeems his servant David from the hurtful sword.

[It is he] that giveth salvation to kings: who delivereth David his servant from the hurtful sword.

11 Deliver me, and rescue me from the hand of strange children, whose mouth has spoken vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of iniquity;

Rid me, and deliver me from the hand of strange children, whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand [is] a right hand of falsehood:

12 whose children are as plants, strengthened in their youth: their daughters are beautiful, sumptuously adorned after the similitude of a temple.

That our sons [may be] as plants grown up in their youth; [that] our daughters [may be] as corner stones, polished [after] the similitude of a palace:

13 Their garners are full, and bursting with one kind of store after another; their sheep are prolific, multiplying in their streets.

[That] our granaries [may be] full, affording all manner of store; [that] our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets:

14 Their oxen are fat: there is no falling down of a hedge, nor going out, nor cry in their folds.

[That] our oxen [may be] strong to labor; that [there be] no breaking in, nor going out; that [there be] no complaining in our streets.

15 Men bless the people to whom this lot belongs, [but] blessed is the people whose God is the Lord.

Happy [is that] people, that is in such a case: [yes], happy [is that] people, whose God [is] the LORD.