Psalms 144

1 Blessed be the Lord my God, who teacheth my hands to fight, and my fingers to war.

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

2 My mercy, and my refuge: my support, and my deliverer: My protector, and I have hoped in him: who subdueth 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 Lord, what is man, that thou art made known to him? or the son of man, that thou makest account of him?

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

4 Man is like to vanity: his days pass away like a shadow.

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

5 Lord, bow down thy heavens and descend: touch the mountains and they shall smoke.

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

6 Send forth lightning, and thou shalt scatter them: shoot out thy arrows, and thou shalt trouble them.

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

7 Put forth thy hand from on high, take me out, and deliver me from many waters: from the hand of strange children:

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

8 Whose mouth hath spoken vanity: and their right hand is the right hand of iniquity.

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

9 To thee, O God, I will sing a new canticle: on the psaltery and an instrument of ten strings I will sing praises to thee.

I will sing a new song to thee, O God: upon a psaltery [and] an instrument of ten strings will I sing praises to thee.

10 Who givest salvation to kings: who hast redeemed thy servant David from the malicious sword:

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

11 Deliver me, And rescue me out of the hand of strange children; whose mouth hath spoken vanity: and their right hand is the right hand of iniquity:

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 Whose sons are as new plants in their youth: Their daughters decked out, adorned round about after the similitude of a temple:

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 Their storehouses full, flowing out of this into that. Their sheep fruitful in young, abounding in their goings forth:

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

14 Their oxen fat. There is no breach of wall, nor passage, nor crying out in their streets.

[That] our oxen [may be] strong to labor; that [there be] no breaking in, nor going out; that [there be] no complaining in our streets.

15 They have called the people happy, that hath these things: but happy is that people whose God is the Lord.

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