Psalms 144
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PSALM 144
Common Meter: 8,6,8,6
A Psalm of David.
1O blessed ever be the Lord,
who is my strength and might,
Who doth instruct my hands to war,
my fingers teach to fight.
2My goodness, fortress, my high tow'r,
deliverer, and shield,
In whom I trust: who under me
my people makes to yield.
3Lord, what is man, that thou of him
dost so much knowledge take?
Or son of man, that thou of him
so great account dost make?
4Man is like vanity; his days,
as shadows, pass away.
5Lord, bow thy heav'ns, come down, touch thou
the hills, and smoke shall they.
6Cast forth thy lightning, scatter them;
thine arrows shoot, them rout.
7Thine hand send from above, me save;
from great depths draw me out;
And from the hand of children strange,
8Whose mouth speaks vanity;
And their right hand is a right hand
that works deceitfully.
9A new song I to thee will sing,
Lord, on a psaltery;
I on a ten-string'd instrument
will praises sing to thee.
10Ev'n he it is that unto kings
salvation doth send;
Who his own servant David doth
from hurtful sword defend.
11O free me from strange children's hand,
whose mouth speaks vanity;
And their right hand a right hand is
that works deceitfully.
12That, as the plants, our sons may be
in youth grown up that are;
Our daughters like to corner-stones,
carv'd like a palace fair.
13That to afford all kind of store
our garners may be fill'd;
That our sheep thousands, in our streets
ten thousands they may yield.
14That strong our oxen be for work,
that no in-breaking be,
Nor going out; and that our streets
may from complaints be free.
15Those people blessed are who be
in such a case as this;
Yea, blessed all those people are,
whose God JEHOVAH is.
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Psalms 144
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PSALM 144
1 A psalm of David. Blessed be my Lord God, that teacheth mine hands to war; and my fingers to battle.
2My mercy, and my refuge; my taker-up, and my deliverer. My defender, and I hoped in him; and thou makest subject my people under me.
3Lord, what is a man, for thou hast made thyself known to him; either the son of man, for thou areckonest him of some value?
4A man is made like vanity; his days pass as a shadow.
5Lord, bow down thine heavens, and come thou down; touch thou [the] hills, and they shall make smoke.
6Light thou shining, and thou shalt scatter them; send thou out thine arrows, and thou shalt trouble them.
7Send out thine hand from on high, ravish me out, and deliver thou me from many waters; and from the hand of alien sons.
8The mouth of whom spake vanity; and the right hand of them is the right hand of wickedness.
9God, I shall sing to thee a new song; I shall say psalm to thee in psaltery of ten strings.
10Which givest health to kings, which again-boughtest David, thy servant; from the wicked sword ravish thou out me.
11And deliver thou me from the hand of alien sons; the mouth of which spake vanity, and the right hand of them is the right hand of wickedness.
12Whose sons be as new plantings in their youth. The daughters of them be arrayed; adorned about as the likeness of a temple.
13The cellars of them be full; bring-ing out from this vessel into that, or from one vessel into another. The sheep of them be with lambs, plenteous [or abounding] in their goings out;
14their kine be fat. There is no falling of their wall, neither passing over of it; neither cry is in the streets of them.
15They said, The people is blessed, that hath these things; blessed is the people, whose Lord is the God of it.
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