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144:1  Of David. Blessed be Yahweh, my rock, the one who trains my hands for battle, my fingers for war—
144:2  my loyal love and my fortress, my stronghold and my deliverer, my shield, and one in whom I take refuge, the one who subdues peoples under me.
144:3  O Yahweh, what is humankind that you take knowledge of him, or the son of man that you take thought of him?
144:4  Humankind is like a breath, his days like a passing shadow.
144:5  O Yahweh, bow the heavens and come down; touch the mountains so that they smoke.
144:6  Flash forth lightning and scatter them; dispatch your arrows and rout them.
144:7  Stretch out your hands from on high; Rescue me and deliver me from many waters, from the hand of foreigners,
144:8  whose mouth speaks falsely, and their right hand is a false right hand.
144:9  O God, I will sing a new song to you. With a lyre of ten strings I will sing praise to you,
144:10  who gives victory to kings, who rescues David his servant from the evil sword.
144:11  Rescue me and deliver me from the hand of foreigners, whose mouth speaks falsely, and whose right hand is a false right hand,
144:12  that our sons may be like plants, full grown in their youth, our daughters like corner pillars, carved in the style of a palace,
144:13  that our granaries may be full, providing produce of all kinds, that our sheep may produce by the thousands, by the tens of thousands in our open fields,
144:14  that our cattle may be pregnant; that there be no breach in our walls, and no going out in exile, and no outcry in our plazas.
144:15  Blessed are the people who have it thus. Blessed are the people whose God is Yahweh.