Chapter 144

  {[A Psalm] of David.} Blessed be Jehovah my rock, who teacheth my hands to war, my fingers to fight;  

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  My mercy and my fortress, my high tower and my deliverer, my shield and he in whom I trust, who subdueth my people under me!  

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  Jehovah, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him, the son of man, that thou takest thought of him?  

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  Man is like to vanity; his days are as a shadow that passeth away.  

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  Jehovah, bow thy heavens, and come down; touch the mountains, that they smoke;  

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  Cast forth lightnings, and scatter them; send forth thine arrows, and discomfit them:  

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  Stretch out thy hands from above; rescue me, and deliver me out of great waters, from the hand of aliens,  

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  Whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.  

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  O God, I will sing a new song unto thee; with the ten-stringed lute will I sing psalms unto thee:  

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  Who givest salvation unto kings; who rescuest David thy servant from the hurtful sword.  

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  Rescue me, and deliver me from the hand of aliens, whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.  

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  That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; our daughters as corner-columns, sculptured after the fashion of a palace:  

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  Our granaries full, affording all manner of store; our sheep bringing forth thousands, ten thousands in our pastures;  

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  Our kine laden [with young]; no breaking in and no going forth, and no outcry in our streets.  

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  Blessed the people that is in such a case! Blessed the people whose God is Jehovah!  

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