^1. Psalm 144 Of David.

^1. Praise be to the LORD my Rock, who trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle.

^2. He is my loving God and my fortress, my stronghold and my deliverer, my shield, in whom I take refuge, who subdues peoples [1] under me.

^3. O LORD, what is man that you care for him, the son of man that you think of him?

^4. Man is like a breath; his days are like a fleeting shadow.

^5. Part your heavens, O LORD, and come down; touch the mountains, so that they smoke.

^6. Send forth lightning and scatter [the enemies]; shoot your arrows and rout them.

^7. Reach down your hand from on high; deliver me and rescue me from the mighty waters, from the hands of foreigners

^8. whose mouths are full of lies, whose right hands are deceitful.

^9. I will sing a new song to you, O God; on the ten-stringed lyre I will make music to you,

^10. to the One who gives victory to kings, who delivers his servant David from the deadly sword.

^11. Deliver me and rescue me from the hands of foreigners whose mouths are full of lies, whose right hands are deceitful.

^12. Then our sons in their youth will be like well-nurtured plants, and our daughters will be like pillars carved to adorn a palace.

^13. Our barns will be filled with every kind of provision. Our sheep will increase by thousands, by tens of thousands in our fields;

^14. our oxen will draw heavy loads. [2] There will be no breaching of walls, no going into captivity, no cry of distress in our streets.

^15. Blessed are the people of whom this is true; blessed are the people whose God is the LORD.