Home Master Index
←Prev   Psalms 144 as rendered by/in  Next→ 


144:1  Bless the Lord, my rock, who taught my hands how to fight, who taught my fingers how to do battle!
144:2  God is my loyal one, my fortress, my place of safety, my rescuer, my shield, in whom I take refuge, and the one who subdues people before me.
144:3  What are human beings, Lord, that you know them at all? What are human beings that you even consider them?
144:4  Humans are like a puff of air; their days go by like a shadow.
144:5  Lord, part your skies and come down! Touch the mountains so they smoke!
144:6  Flash lightning and scatter the enemy! Shoot your arrows and defeat them!
144:7  Stretch out your hand from above! Rescue me and deliver me from deep water, from the power of strangers, whose mouths speak lies,
144:8  and whose strong hand is a strong hand of deception!
144:9  I will sing a new song to you, God. I will sing praises to you on a ten-stringed harp,
144:10  to you—the one who gives saving help to rulers, and who rescues his servant David from the evil sword.
144:11  Rescue me and deliver me from the power of strangers, whose mouths speak lies, and whose strong hand is a strong hand of deception,
144:12  so that our sons can grow up fully, in their youth, like plants; so that our daughters can be like pillars carved to decorate a palace;
144:13  so that our barns can be full, providing all kinds of food; so that our flocks can be in the thousands— even tens of thousands—in our fields;
144:14  so that our cattle can be loaded with calves; so that there won’t be any breach in the walls, no exile, no outcries in our streets!
144:15  The people who have it like this are truly happy! The people whose God is the Lord are truly happy!