Psa 144 | EngLXX | STEP | A Psalm of David concerning Goliad. Blessed be the Lord my God, who instructs my hands for battle, and my fingers for war.

‏ Psalms 144

1 A Psalm of David concerning Goliad. Blessedbe the Lord my God, who instructs my hands for battle,and my fingers for war.
2 My mercy, and my refuge; my helper, and my deliverer; my protector, in whom I havetrusted; who subdues my people under me.
3 Lord, what is man, that you are made known to him? or the son of man, that youtake account of him?
4 Man is like to vanity: his days pass as a shadow.
5 O Lord, bow your heavens, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
6 Send lightning, and you shall scatter them: send forth your arrows, and you shalldiscomfit them.
7 Send forth your hand from on high; rescue me, and deliver me out of great waters,out of the hand of strange children;
8 whose mouth has spoken vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of iniquity.
9 O God, I will sing a new song to you: I will play to you on a lute of ten strings.
10 Even to him who gives salvation to kings: who redeems his servant David from the hurtful sword.
11 Deliver me, and rescue me from the hand of strange children, whose mouth has spokenvanity, and their right hand is a right hand of iniquity;
12 whose children are as plants, strengthened in their youth: their daughters arebeautiful, sumptuously adorned after the similitude of a temple.
13 Their garners are full, and bursting with one kind of store after another; theirsheep are prolific, multiplying in their streets.
14 Their oxen are fat: there is no falling down of a hedge, nor going out, nor cryin their folds.
15 Men bless the people to whom this lot belongs,but blessed is the people whose God is the Lord.