PS-144:1 [A Psalm] of David. Blessed [be] the LORD my strength,

which teacheth

my hands to war, [and] my fingers to fight:

PS-144:2 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.

PS-144:3 LORD, what [is] man, that thou takest knowledge of him!

[or] the son

of man, that thou makest account of him!

PS-144:4 Man is like to vanity: his days [are] as a shadow that

passeth away.

PS-144:5 Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down: touch the

mountains, and they

shall smoke.

PS-144:6 Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out thine

arrows, and

destroy them.

PS-144:7 Send thine hand from above; rid me, and deliver me out

of great

waters, from the hand of strange children;

PS-144:8 Whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand [is]

a right hand

of falsehood.

PS-144:9 I will sing a new song unto thee, O God: upon a

psaltery [and] an

instrument of ten strings will I sing praises unto thee.

PS-144:10 [It is he] that giveth salvation unto kings: who

delivereth David

his servant from the hurtful sword.

PS-144:11 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:

PS-144:12 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:

PS-144:13 [That] our garners [may be] full, affording all manner

of store:

[that] our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in

our streets:

PS-144:14 [That] our oxen [may be] strong to labour; [that there

be] no

breaking in, nor going out; that [there be] no complaining in

our streets.

PS-144:15 Happy [is that] people, that is in such a case: [yea],

happy [is

that] people, whose God [is] the LORD.

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