Psalms 144
1 Blessed be the Lord my God, who teacheth my hands to fight, and my fingers to war.
A Psalme of David. Blessed be the Lord my strength, which teacheth mine hands to fight, and my fingers to battell.
2 My mercy, and my refuge: my support, and my deliverer: My protector, and I have hoped in him: who subdueth my people under me.
He is my goodnes and my fortresse, my towre and my deliuerer, my shield, and in him I trust, which subdueth my people vnder me.
3 Lord, what is man, that thou art made known to him? or the son of man, that thou makest account of him?
Lord, what is man that thou regardest him! or the sonne of man that thou thinkest vpon him!
4 Man is like to vanity: his days pass away like a shadow.
Man is like to vanitie: his dayes are like a shadow, that vanisheth.
5 Lord, bow down thy heavens and descend: touch the mountains and they shall smoke.
Bow thine heauens, O Lord, and come downe: touch the mountaines and they shall smoke.
6 Send forth lightning, and thou shalt scatter them: shoot out thy arrows, and thou shalt trouble them.
Cast forth the lightning and scatter them: shoote out thine arrowes, and consume them.
7 Put forth thy hand from on high, take me out, and deliver me from many waters: from the hand of strange children:
Send thine hand from aboue: deliuer me, and take me out of the great waters, and from the hand of strangers,
8 Whose mouth hath spoken vanity: and their right hand is the right hand of iniquity.
Whose mouth talketh vanitie, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
9 To thee, O God, I will sing a new canticle: on the psaltery and an instrument of ten strings I will sing praises to thee.
I wil sing a new song vnto thee, O God, and sing vnto thee vpon a viole, and an instrument of ten strings.
10 Who givest salvation to kings: who hast redeemed thy servant David from the malicious sword:
It is he that giueth deliuerance vnto Kings, and rescueth Dauid his seruant from the hurtfull sworde.
11 Deliver me, And rescue me out of the hand of strange children; whose mouth hath spoken vanity: and their right hand is the right hand of iniquity:
Rescue me, and deliuer me from the hand of strangers, whose mouth talketh vanitie, and their right hand is a right hand of falshood:
12 Whose sons are as new plants in their youth: Their daughters decked out, adorned round about after the similitude of a temple:
That our sonnes may be as the plantes growing vp in their youth, and our daughters as the corner stones, grauen after the similitude of a palace:
13 Their storehouses full, flowing out of this into that. Their sheep fruitful in young, abounding in their goings forth:
That our corners may be full, and abounding with diuers sorts, and that our sheepe may bring forth thousands and ten thousand in our streetes:
14 Their oxen fat. There is no breach of wall, nor passage, nor crying out in their streets.
That our oxen may be strong to labour: that there be none inuasion, nor going out, nor no crying in our streetes.
15 They have called the people happy, that hath these things: but happy is that people whose God is the Lord.
Blessed are the people, that be so, yea, blessed are the people, whose God is the Lord.
