Psalms 144

^{Psalms 144:1} Blessed be the LORD, my Rock, who trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle.

^{Psalms 144:2} He is my steadfast love and my fortress, my stronghold and my deliverer. He is my shield, in whom I take refuge, who subdues peoples under me.

^{Psalms 144:3} O LORD, what is man, that You regard him, the son of man that You think of him?

^{Psalms 144:4} Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.

^{Psalms 144:5} Part Your heavens, O LORD, and come down; touch the mountains, that they may smoke.

^{Psalms 144:6} Flash forth Your lightning and scatter them; shoot Your arrows and rout them.

^{Psalms 144:7} Reach down from on high; set me free and rescue me from the deep waters, from the grasp of foreigners,

^{Psalms 144:8} whose mouths speak falsehood, whose right hands are deceitful.

^{Psalms 144:9} I will sing to You a new song, O God; on a harp of ten strings I will make music to You—

^{Psalms 144:10} to Him who gives victory to kings, who frees His servant David from the deadly sword.

^{Psalms 144:11} Set me free and rescue me from the grasp of foreigners, whose mouths speak falsehood, whose right hands are deceitful.

^{Psalms 144:12} Then our sons will be like plants nurtured in their youth, our daughters like corner pillars carved to adorn a palace.

^{Psalms 144:13} Our storehouses will be full, supplying all manner of produce; our flocks will bring forth thousands, tens of thousands in our fields.

^{Psalms 144:14} Our oxen will bear great loads. There will be no breach in the walls, no going into captivity, and no cry of lament in our streets.

^{Psalms 144:15} Blessed are the people of whom this is so; blessed are the people whose God is the LORD.