144 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.
