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144:1
Blessed be Jehovah my
arock,
Who teaches my hands for war
And my fingers for battle:
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144:2
My Lord of lovingkindness and my fortress,
My
ahigh retreat and my Deliverer,
My shield and He in whom I
btake refuge,
Who subdues my people under me.
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144:3
O Jehovah,
awhat is man, that You take knowledge of him,
And the son of mortal man, that You think of him?
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144:4
Man is like a
abreath;
His days are like a passing shadow.
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144:5
O Jehovah, bow Your heavens down and descend;
Touch the mountains, and they will smoke.
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144:6
Flash forth lightning, and scatter them;
Send forth Your arrows, and discomfit them.
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144:7
Stretch forth Your hand from on high;
Rescue me and deliver me
From the great waters,
From the hand of foreigners;
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144:8
Whose mouth speaks deceit,
And whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
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144:9
O God, I will sing a
anew song to You;
Upon a harp of ten strings I will sing psalms to You,
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144:10
Who gives salvation to kings,
Who
arescues David His servant from the hurtful sword.
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144:11
Rescue me and deliver me from the hand of foreigners,
Whose mouth speaks deceit,
And whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
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144:12
1May our sons be like
aplants Grown up in their youth;
May our daughters be like corner pillars
Hewn out in fashion for a palace;
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144:13
May our barns be full,
Furnishing produce of all kinds;
May our sheep bring forth thousands
And ten thousands in our fields;
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144:14
May our oxen be fully laden;
May there be no breaking in
to rob or going forth
to fight,
Or outcry in our streets.
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144:15
Blessed are the people who are so;
aBlessed are the people whose God is Jehovah.