Psalms 144
1 [A Psalm] of David. Blessed [be] the LORD my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, [and] my fingers to fight:
BY DAVID. Blessed [is] YHWH my Rock, Who is teaching My hands for war, My fingers for battle.
2 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.
My kind one, and my bulwark, My tower, and my deliverer, My shield, and in whom I have trusted, Who is subduing my people under me!
3 LORD, what [is] man, that thou takest knowledge of him! [or] the son of man, that thou makest account of him!
YHWH, what [is] man that You know him? The son of man, that You esteem him?
4 Man is like to vanity: his days [are] as a shadow that passeth away.
Man has been like a breath, His days [are] as a shadow passing by.
5 Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
YHWH, incline Your heavens and come down, Strike against mountains, and they smoke.
6 Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out thine arrows, and destroy them.
Send forth lightning, and scatter them, Send forth Your arrows, and trouble them,
7 Send thine hand from above; rid me, and deliver me out of great waters, from the hand of strange children;
Send forth Your hand from on high, Free me, and deliver me from many waters, From the hand of sons of a stranger,
8 Whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand [is] a right hand of falsehood.
Because their mouth has spoken vanity, And their right hand [is] a right hand of falsehood.
9 I will sing a new song unto thee, O God: upon a psaltery [and] an instrument of ten strings will I sing praises unto thee.
O God, I sing to You a new song, I sing praise to You on a stringed instrument of ten strings.
10 [It is he] that giveth salvation unto kings: who delivereth David his servant from the hurtful sword.
Who is giving deliverance to kings, Who is freeing His servant David from the sword of evil.
11 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:
Free me, and deliver me From the hand of sons of a stranger, Because their mouth has spoken vanity, And their right hand [is] a right hand of falsehood,
12 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:
Because our sons [are] as plants, Becoming great in their youth, Our daughters as hewn stones, Polished—the likeness of a palace,
13 [That] our garners [may be] full, affording all manner of store: [that] our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets:
Our granaries [are] full, bringing out from kind to kind, Our flocks are bringing forth thousands, Ten thousands in our out-places,
14 [That] our oxen [may be] strong to labour; [that there be] no breaking in, nor going out; that [there be] no complaining in our streets.
Our oxen are carrying, there is no breach, And there is no outgoing, And there is no crying in our broad places.
15 Happy [is that] people, that is in such a case: [yea], happy [is that] people, whose God [is] the LORD.
O the blessedness of the people that is thus, O the blessedness of the people whose God [is] YHWH!
