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Psalms 144

A psalm of David that blesses the LORD as the one who trains his hands for battle and is his fortress and deliverer. David marvels that God takes notice of man, whose days are like a passing shadow, and asks him to come down and rescue him from foreign enemies. It ends with a picture of a blessed nation: strong sons, full barns, peaceful streets, happy because the LORD is its God.

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Key verses

  • Verse 1The LORD trains my hands for war.
  • Verse 3What is man, that you take knowledge of him?
  • Verse 4Man is like a breath; his days a passing shadow.
  • Verse 15Happy is the people whose God is the LORD.

Blessed be the LORD my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight:SelectedPsalms 144:1Ask

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.SelectedPsalms 144:2Ask

LORD, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him! or the son of man, that thou makest account of him!SelectedPsalms 144:3Ask

Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.SelectedPsalms 144:4Ask

Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.SelectedPsalms 144:5Ask

Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out thine arrows, and destroy them.SelectedPsalms 144:6Ask

Send thine hand from above; rid me, and deliver me out of great waters, from the hand of strange children;SelectedPsalms 144:7Ask

Whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.SelectedPsalms 144:8Ask

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.SelectedPsalms 144:9Ask

It is he that giveth salvation unto kings: who delivereth David his servant from the hurtful sword.SelectedPsalms 144:10Ask

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:SelectedPsalms 144:11Ask

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:SelectedPsalms 144:12Ask

That our garners may be full, affording all manner of store: that our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets:SelectedPsalms 144:13Ask

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.SelectedPsalms 144:14Ask

Happy is that people, that is in such a case: yea, happy is that people, whose God is the LORD.SelectedPsalms 144:15Ask

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