Psalms 144

1 A Psalm of David. Blessed be the LORD my Rock, who traineth my hands for war, and my fingers for battle;

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

2 My lovingkindness, and my fortress, my high tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and He in whom I take refuge; who subdueth my people under me.

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!

3 LORD, what is man, that Thou takest knowledge of him? or the son of man, that Thou makest account of him?

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

4 Man is like unto a breath; his days are as a shadow that passeth away.

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

5 O LORD, bow Thy heavens, and come down; touch the mountains, that they may smoke.

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

6 Cast forth lightning, and scatter them; send out Thine arrows, and discomfit them.

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

7 Stretch forth Thy hands from on high; rescue me, and deliver me out of many waters, out of the hand of strangers;

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

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

Because their mouth has spoken vanity, And their right hand [is] a right hand of falsehood.

9 O God, I will sing a new song unto Thee, upon a psaltery of ten strings will I sing praises unto Thee;

O God, I sing to You a new song, I sing praise to You on a stringed instrument of ten strings.

10 Who givest salvation unto kings, who rescuest David Thy servant from the hurtful sword.

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

11 Rescue me, and deliver me out of the hand of strangers, whose mouth speaketh falsehood, and their right hand is a right hand of lying.

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,

12 We whose sons are as plants grown up in their youth; whose daughters are as corner-pillars carved after the fashion of a palace;

Because our sons [are] as plants, Becoming great in their youth, Our daughters as hewn stones, Polished—the likeness of a palace,

13 Whose garners are full, affording all manner of store; whose sheep increase by thousands and ten thousands in our fields;

Our granaries [are] full, bringing out from kind to kind, Our flocks are bringing forth thousands, Ten thousands in our out-places,

14 Whose oxen are well laden; with no breach, and no going forth, and no outcry in our broad places;

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

15 Happy is the people that is in such a case. Yea, happy is the people whose God is the LORD.

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