Psalms 144

1 By David. Blessed [is] Jehovah my rock, who is teaching My hands for war, my fingers for battle.

[A Psalm] of David concerning Goliad. Blessed [be] the Lord my God, who instructs my hands for battle, [and] my fingers for war.

2 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!

My mercy, and my refuge; my helper, and my deliverer; my protector, in whom I have trusted; who subdues my people under me.

3 Jehovah, what [is] man that Thou knowest him? Son of man, that Thou esteemest him?

Lord, what is man, that thou art made known to him? or the son of man, that thou takest account of him?

4 Man to vanity hath been like, His days [are] as a shadow passing by.

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

5 Jehovah, incline Thy heavens and come down, Strike against mountains, and they smoke.

O Lord, bow thy heavens, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.

6 Send forth lightning, and scatter them, Send forth Thine arrows, and trouble them,

Send lightning, and thou shalt scatter them: send forth thine arrows, and thou shalt discomfit them.

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

Send forth thine hand from on high; rescue me, and deliver me out of great waters, out of the hand of strange children;

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

whose mouth has spoken vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of iniquity.

9 O God, a new song I sing to Thee, On a psaltery of ten strings I sing praise to Thee.

O God, I will sing a new song to thee: I will play to thee on a psaltery of ten strings.

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

[Even] to him who gives salvation to kings: who redeems his servant David from the hurtful sword.

11 Free me, and deliver me From the hand of sons of a stranger, Because their mouth hath spoken vanity, And their right hand [is] a right hand of falsehood,

Deliver me, and rescue me from the hand of strange children, whose mouth has spoken vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of iniquity;

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

whose children are as plants, strengthened in their youth: their daughters are beautiful, sumptuously adorned after the similitude of a temple.

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

Their garners are full, and bursting with one kind of store after another; their sheep are prolific, multiplying in their streets.

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

Their oxen are fat: there is no falling down of a hedge, nor going out, nor cry in their folds.

15 O the happiness of the people that is thus, O the happiness of the people whose God [is] Jehovah!

Men bless the people to whom this lot belongs, [but] blessed is the people whose God is the Lord.