Psalms 144

1 BY DAVID. Blessed [is] YHWH my Rock, Who is teaching My hands for war, My fingers for battle.

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

2 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!

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 YHWH, what [is] man that You know him? The son of man, that You esteem him?

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

4 Man has been like a breath, His days [are] as a shadow passing by.

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

5 YHWH, incline Your heavens and come down, Strike against mountains, and they smoke.

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

6 Send forth lightning, and scatter them, Send forth Your arrows, and trouble them,

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

7 Send forth Your hand from on high, Free me, and deliver me from many waters, From the hand of sons of a stranger,

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

8 Because their mouth has spoken vanity, 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 O God, I sing to You a new song, I sing praise to You on a stringed instrument of ten strings.

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.

10 Who is giving deliverance to kings, Who is freeing His servant David from the sword of evil.

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

11 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,

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 Because our sons [are] as plants, Becoming great in their youth, Our daughters as hewn stones, Polished—the likeness 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 Our granaries [are] full, bringing out from kind to kind, Our flocks are bringing forth thousands, Ten thousands in our out-places,

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

14 Our oxen are carrying, there is no breach, And there is no outgoing, And there is no crying in our broad places.

[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.

15 O the blessedness of the people that is thus, O the blessedness of the people whose God [is] YHWH!

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