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144:1  Blessed be the LORD, my rock, who trains my hands for battle and my fingers for warfare,
144:2  he is my gracious love and my fortress, my strong tower and my deliverer, my shield and the one in whom I find refuge, who subdues peoples under me.
144:3  LORD, what are human beings, that you should care about them, or mortal man, that you should think about him?
144:4  The human person is a mere empty breath; his days are like a fading shadow.
144:5  Bow your heavens, LORD, and descend; touch the mountains, and they will smolder.
144:6  Send forth lightning and scatter the enemy, shoot your arrows and confuse them.
144:7  Reach down your hand from your high place; rescue me and deliver me from mighty waters, from the control of foreigners.
144:8  Their mouths speak lies, and their right hand deceives,
144:9  God, I will sing a new song to you. On a harp of ten strings I will play to you—
144:10  to you who gives victory to kings, rescuing his servant David from cruel swords.
144:11  Rescue me and deliver me from the control of foreigners, whose mouths speak lies, and whose right hand deceives.
144:12  May our sons in their youth be like full-grown plants, and our daughters like pillars destined to decorate a palace.
144:13  May our granaries be filled, storing produce in abundance; may our sheep bring forth thousands, even tens of thousands in our fields.
144:14  May our cattle grow heavy with young, with no damage or loss. May there be no cry of anguish in our streets!
144:15  Happy are the people to whom these things come; happy are the people whose God is the LORD.