Psalms 144
1 A Psalme of David. Blessed be the Lord my strength, which teacheth mine hands to fight, and my fingers to battell.
[A Psalm] of David. Blessed [be] the LORD my strength, who teacheth my hands to war, [and] my fingers to fight;
2 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.
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 regardest him! or the sonne of man that thou thinkest vpon 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 vanitie: his dayes are like a shadow, that vanisheth.
Man is like to vanity: his days [are] as a shadow that passeth away.
5 Bow thine heauens, O Lord, and come downe: touch the mountaines and they shall smoke.
Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
6 Cast forth the lightning and scatter them: shoote out thine arrowes, and consume them.
Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot thy arrows, and destroy them.
7 Send thine hand from aboue: deliuer me, and take me out of the great waters, and from the hand of strangers,
Send thy hand from above; rid me, and deliver me out of great waters, from the hand of strange children;
8 Whose mouth talketh vanitie, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
Whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand [is] a right hand of falsehood.
9 I wil sing a new song vnto thee, O God, and sing vnto thee vpon a viole, and an instrument 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 It is he that giueth deliuerance vnto Kings, and rescueth Dauid his seruant from the hurtfull sworde.
[It is he] that giveth salvation to kings: who delivereth David his servant from the hurtful sword.
11 Rescue me, and deliuer me from the hand of strangers, whose mouth talketh vanitie, and their right hand is a right hand of falshood:
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 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:
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 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:
[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 That our oxen may be strong to labour: that there be none inuasion, nor going out, nor no crying in our streetes.
[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 Blessed are the people, that be so, yea, blessed are 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.
