Psalm 144:title–15

My Rock and My Fortress

144Of David.

¹Blessed be the Lord, my ^grock,

^hwho trains my hands for war,

and my fingers for battle;

²he is my ⁱsteadfast love and my ^jfortress,

my ^kstronghold and my deliverer,

my ^lshield and he in whom I take refuge,

who ^msubdues peoples¹ under me.

³O Lord, ⁿwhat is man that you ^oregard him,

or the son of man that you think of him?

^4pMan is like a breath;

his days are like ^qa passing ^rshadow.

^5sBow your heavens, O Lord, and come down!

^tTouch the mountains so that they smoke!

^6uFlash forth the lightning and scatter them;

^usend out your arrows and rout them!

^7vStretch out your hand from on high;

^wrescue me and deliver me from the many waters,

from the hand ^xof foreigners,

⁸whose mouths speak ^ylies

and whose right hand is ^za right hand of falsehood.

⁹I will sing ^aa new song to you, O God;

upon ^aa ten-stringed harp I will play to you,

¹⁰who gives victory to kings,

who ^brescues David his servant from the cruel sword.

¹¹Rescue me and deliver me

from the hand ^xof foreigners,

whose mouths speak ^ylies

and whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

¹²May our sons in their youth

be like ^cplants full grown,

our daughters like ^dcorner pillars

cut for the structure of a palace;

^13emay our granaries be full,

^fproviding all kinds of produce;

may our sheep bring forth thousands

and ten thousands in our fields;

¹⁴may our cattle be heavy with young,

suffering no mishap or failure in bearing;²

may there be no ^gcry of distress in our streets!

^15hBlessed are the people to whom such blessings fall!

ⁱBlessed are the people whose God is the Lord!