144

Psalm 144 · Book Five · David

Of David.

The Hebrew title · Berean Standard Bible

About this psalm

It opens with hands taught to war, then stops to ask the Psalm 8 question again from a harder place: LORD, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him? Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away. And then it ends somewhere unexpected — not with victory but with full barns, strong oxen, no complaining in the streets, and sons and daughters growing up.

Read it when you want to know what you are actually fighting for.

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¹Blessed be the LORD my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight:²My goodness, and my fortress;my high tower, and my deliverer;my shield, and he in whom I trust; who subdueth my people under me.³LORD, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him! or the son of man, that thou makest account of him!⁴Man is like to vanity:his days are as a shadow that passeth away.⁵Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down:touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.⁶Cast forth lightning, and scatter them:shoot out thine arrows, and destroy them.⁷Send thine hand from above;rid me, and deliver me out of great waters, from the hand of strange children;⁸Whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.⁹I will sing a new song unto thee, O God:upon a psaltery and an instrument of ten strings will I sing praises unto thee.¹⁰It is he that giveth salvation unto kings:who delivereth David his servant from the hurtful sword.¹¹Rid me, and deliver me from the hand of strange children, whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood:¹²That 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:¹³That our garners may be full, affording all manner of store:that our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets:¹⁴That our oxen may be strong to labour;that there be no breaking in, nor going out;that there be no complaining in our streets.¹⁵Happy is that people, that is in such a case:yea, happy is that people, whose God is the LORD.

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