Psalms 144
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Psalm 144
Prayer for National Deliverance and Security
Of David.
1 #
Ps 18.2, 34 Blessed be the Lord, my rock,
who trains my hands for war and my fingers for battle,
2 #
Ps 18.39; 59.9; 84.9; 91.2 my rock#144.2 Cn: Heb my steadfast love and my fortress,
my stronghold and my deliverer,
my shield, in whom I take refuge,
who subdues the peoples#144.2 Q ms Heb mss Syr Aquila Jerome: MT my people under me.
3 #
Ps 8.4; Heb 2.6 O Lord, what are humans that you regard them,
or mortals that you think of them?
4 #
Ps 39.11; 102.11 They are like a breath;
their days are like a passing shadow.
5 #
Ps 18.9; 104.32; Isa 64.1 Bow your heavens, O Lord, and come down;
touch the mountains so that they smoke.
6 #
Ps 7.13; 18.13, 14 Make the lightning flash and scatter them;
send out your arrows and rout them.
7 #
Ps 18.44; 69.1, 14 Stretch out your hand from on high;
set me free and rescue me from the mighty waters,
from the hand of foreigners,
8 #
Ps 12.2; Isa 44.20 whose mouths speak lies
and whose right hands are false.
9 #
Ps 33.2, 3 I will sing a new song to you, O God;
upon a ten-stringed harp I will play to you,
10 #
Ps 18.50; 140.7 the one who gives victory to kings,
who rescues his servant David.
11 #
Ps 12.2; Isa 44.20 Rescue me from the cruel sword,
and deliver me from the hand of aliens,
whose mouths speak lies,
and whose right hands are false.
12 #
Ps 128.3
May our sons in their youth
be like plants full grown,
our daughters like corner pillars,
cut for the building of a palace.
13May our barns be filled
with produce of every kind;
may our sheep increase by thousands,
by tens of thousands in our fields,
14and may our cattle be heavy with young.
May there be no breach in the walls,#144.14 Heb lacks in the walls no exile,
and no cry of distress in our streets.
15 #
Ps 33.12
Happy are the people to whom such blessings fall;
happy are the people whose God is the Lord.
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