The Book of Psalms 144

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1 Blessed be the LORD my strength which teacheth my hands to war and my fingers to fight ⚑

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 ⚑

3 LORD what is man that thou takest knowledge of him or the son of man that thou makest account of him ⚑

4 Man is like to vanity his days are as a shadow that passeth away ⚑

5 Bow thy heavens O LORD and come down touch the mountains and they shall smoke ⚑

6 Cast forth lightning and scatter them shoot out thine arrows and destroy them ⚑

7 Send thine hand from above rid me and deliver me out of great waters from the hand of strange children ⚑

8 Whose mouth speaketh vanity and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood ⚑

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 ⚑

10 It is he that giveth salvation unto kings who delivereth David his servant from the hurtful sword ⚑

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 ⚑

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 ⚑

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 ⚑

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 ⚑

15 Happy is that people that is in such a case yea happy is that people whose God is the LORD ⚑

King James Version (1769) with Apocrypha · Crosswire Bible Society / eBible.org (standard text of 1769) · Public Domain

Cross-references: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge · public domain