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| The Book of Psalms. The Harvard Classics. 1909–14. |
| Book V |
| CXLIV |
| Prayer for Rescue and Prosperity |
| A Psalm of David. |
| [1] | BLESSED be Jehovah my rock, Who teacheth my hands to war, And my fingers to fight: |
| [2] | My lovingkindness, and my fortress, My high tower, and my deliverer; My shield, and he in whom I take refuge; Who subdueth my people under me. |
| [3] | Jehovah, 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: 1 His days are as a shadow that passeth away. |
| [5] | Bow thy heavens, O Jehovah, and come down: Touch the mountains, and they shall smoke. |
| [6] | Cast forth lightning, and scatter them; Send out thine arrows, and discomfit them. |
| [7] | Stretch forth thy hand from above; Rescue me, and deliver me out of great waters, Out of the hand of aliens; |
| [8] | Whose mouth speaketh deceit, And whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood. |
| [9] | I will sing a new song unto thee, O God: Upon a psaltery of ten strings will I sing praises unto thee. |
| [10] | Thou art he that giveth salvation unto kings; Who rescueth David his servant from the hurtful sword. |
| [11] | Rescue me, and deliver me out of the hand of aliens, Whose mouth speaketh deceit, And whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood. |
| [12] | When our sons shall be as plants grown up in their youth, And our daughters as cornerstones hewn after the fashion of a palace; |
| [13] | When our garners are full, affording all manner of store, And our sheep bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our fields; |
| [14] | When our oxen are well laden; When there is no breaking in, and no going 2 forth, And no outcry in our streets: |
| [15] | Happy is the people that is in such a case; Yea, happy is the people whose God is Jehovah. |
| Note 1. Heb. a breath. [back] |
| Note 2. Or, sallying. [back] |
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