Psalms 144

Berean Standard Bible

Chapter summary

David praises the LORD as his rock, fortress, deliverer, and shield who trains him for battle and subdues peoples. He questions the significance of mortal man, comparing human life to a breath and a passing shadow. He petitions the LORD to part the heavens, send lightning and arrows, and rescue him from deep waters and the grasp of deceitful foreigners. Following this deliverance, David promises to sing a new song to God on a ten-stringed harp for granting victory to kings and freeing His servant David. The psalm concludes with a description of a prosperous society characterized by thriving youth, full storehouses, abundant livestock, and peace within secure walls.

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¹Blessed be the LORD, my Rock, who trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle. ²He is my steadfast love and my fortress, my stronghold and my deliverer. He is my shield, in whom I take refuge, who subdues peoples under me. ³O LORD, what is man, that You regard him, the son of man that You think of him? ⁴Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow. ⁵Part Your heavens, O LORD, and come down; touch the mountains, that they may smoke. ⁶Flash forth Your lightning and scatter them; shoot Your arrows and rout them. ⁷Reach down from on high; set me free and rescue me from the deep waters, from the grasp of foreigners, ⁸whose mouths speak falsehood, whose right hands are deceitful. ⁹I will sing to You a new song, O God; on a harp of ten strings I will make music to You— ¹⁰to Him who gives victory to kings, who frees His servant David from the deadly sword. ¹¹Set me free and rescue me from the grasp of foreigners, whose mouths speak falsehood, whose right hands are deceitful. ¹²Then our sons will be like plants nurtured in their youth, our daughters like corner pillars carved to adorn a palace. ¹³Our storehouses will be full, supplying all manner of produce; our flocks will bring forth thousands, tens of thousands in our fields. ¹⁴Our oxen will bear great loads. There will be no breach in the walls, no going into captivity, and no cry of lament in our streets. ¹⁵Blessed are the people of whom this is so; blessed are the people whose God is the LORD.

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