Psalms 144:1-13 ▼

1 BY DAVID. Blessed [is] YHWH my Rock, || Who is teaching My hands for war, || My fingers for battle.

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!

3 YHWH, what [is] man that You know him? The son of man, that You esteem him?

4 Man has been like a breath, || His days [are] as a shadow passing by.

5 YHWH, incline Your heavens and come down, || Strike against mountains, and they smoke.

6 Send forth lightning, and scatter them, || Send forth Your arrows, and trouble them,

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

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

9 O God, I sing to You a new song, || I sing praise to You on a stringed instrument of ten strings.

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

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

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

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