Psalms 144

1 Blessed be the Lord my God, who teacheth my hands to fight, and my fingers to war.

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

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.

My mercy, and my refuge; my helper, and my deliverer; my protector, in whom I have trusted; who subdues my people under 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 you are made known to him? or the son of man, that you take account of him?

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

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

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

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

6 Send forth lightning, and thou shalt scatter them: shoot out thy arrows, and thou shalt trouble them.

Send lightning, and you shall scatter them: send forth your arrows, and you shall discomfit 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 forth your hand from on high; rescue me, and deliver me out of great waters, out of the hand of strange children;

8 Whose mouth hath spoken vanity: and their right hand is the right hand of iniquity.

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

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.

O God, I will sing a new song to you: I will play to you on a lute of ten strings.

10 Who givest salvation to kings: who hast redeemed thy servant David from the malicious sword:

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

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:

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;

12 Whose sons are as new plants in their youth: Their daughters decked out, adorned round about after the similitude of a temple:

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

13 Their storehouses full, flowing out of this into that. Their sheep fruitful in young, abounding in their goings forth:

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

14 Their oxen fat. There is no breach of wall, nor passage, nor crying out in their streets.

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

15 They have called the people happy, that hath these things: but happy is that people whose God is the Lord.

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